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brotip: you can, but do it in stealth. be smart about it.

• HenryBemis 2y ago
  counter-brotip: 'they' will figure out that you are doing that thing on the side/against them. You will post it on LinkedIn, you will advertise, tell your cousin that will tell his gf that will tell his uncle that will tell..(you get my drift) And if the "previous company" will find ONE SINGLE THING that looks like the thing that you/someone did in the "previous company", they can sue the s..t out of you. Enough to ruin you financially and ruin your reputation as "this is a thief/backstabber, also now that we think about it he did X Y and Z to sabotage us while he was stealing our code/ideas/etc." Around 2005 my side-gig was setting up call centres (small business, under 10 people, and I would set up their call centre, program their devices, etc.). One of my clients had the great idea (selling lifesaving equipment for ships) to steal the client list from his "previous company", and started sniping clients. One day he asked me to help him set up "internet and email monitoring tools" because he was afraid some of his new staff were rats from the "previous company". I walked out then and there because laws & reputation (setting up a call centre is very different from spying on your staff - back there things were a bit legally-vague). Guess what happened to him ;) (rat - yes, he hired 'a friend' from the "previous company" that ratted him out To the "previous company")("previous company" sued him out of existence)(he had to change line of work because his name was tarnished in the industry)