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> We're talking hundreds of static sites where he took the all the design docs and static HTML/CSS/JS files one would need to recreate them somewhere else. You
by serial_dev 3y ago
> We're talking hundreds of static sites where he took the all the design docs and static HTML/CSS/JS files one would need to recreate them somewhere else.
You make it sound like he poached your clients or extorted your company. As they didn't go after him legally, I assume that didn't happen.
I assume all the files are on a thumb drive in his drawer, unopened, just in case he wants to remember how "that cool animation" was implemented. And when that moment comes, he will not find the thumb drive, anyway.
And all that security charade will accomplish is that people who care enough about their work, will make a copy the day before they quit. Congratulations, your policy achieved nothing, except get rid of their two weeks notice and everyone feel a bit worse working for you.
- drewcoo 3y agoDesigners also need to show portfolios. Hard when your work is all behind some corporate firewall.
- away271828 3y agoI don't know the details but so long as its not some top secret IP, taking copies of various work you've personally done seems pretty reasonable. Good idea to do it periodically as you go along though.
- Macha 3y agoOne thing I noticed is we got in the last few years a lot stories of the form "Adobe donates Photoshop 1.0 source code to Computer History Museum, saved because early programmer kept it on a floppy disc in his house". Or games especially we get a lot of this. It feels like if an employee did this with modern projects, they would at the very least be summarily fired, if not have legal action taken against them.
- nilamo 3y agoThese days, we use centralized source control, instead of emailing zip files and patches back and forth. Having all the source on a random piece of media was a lot more normal back then.