Comment by pretzel5297

7 hours ago

so he was doing free labor for your company? What's he getting out of that?

he went to work for a company we were a vendor for

Sounds like he's getting paid to work on the same thing by a slightly different stakeholder.

I'd happily pay $$$$$$ to hire someone with commit access to Cloudflare, AWS or Google's codebase who could fix the goddamn bugs, let alone add new features.

  • > Sounds like he's getting paid to work on the same thing by a slightly different stakeholder.

    This honestly sounds like the sort of thing I'd sit down with the employee, their new employer, and various "Compliance Team" members, and firm up a bit.

    Sounds good for everyone.

    We get our bugs fixed, $vendor gets to say "Well we have this thing that was developed in-house for BoshNet, that might solve your problem too, it's going to cost you <some comical amount>", and everyone's happy.

    • No company with a legal rep is going to be happy with that situation - ever.

      Who even owns the code the person is working on? Who is responsible when it goes wrong?

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