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If a former colleague asks me a question about how something works, I usually answer and don't charge them. I should probably charge them...

• oarabbus_ 4y ago
  If it's someone I had a good relationship with and they ask me a question, I'd probably answer too. But I do consider this different than what I meant e.g. completing actual tasks for the company.
  • eindiran 4y ago
    That is completing actual tasks for the company. You are effectively acting as a consultant for them. And I have heard of a number of cases of people actually coming back to fix something briefly, which is even further in that direction.
    • oarabbus_ 4y ago
      Sure, coming back to fix something is absolutely completing actual tasks for the company. But I certainly disagree you can generalize answering a question as "effectively acting as a consultant for [the company]". Someone who replaced you but you don't know reaches out asking for help on their work? Or you're being asked questions you'd need to dig in to? "Sorry, I don't work there anymore". But answering a text message from someone you had a good relationship with, who is asking a question in good faith, the answer to which you can recall without effort? Wouldn't agree with calling that consulting.