Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Kindermann Canada camera servicing
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 17:56:44 -0500

People at the company at which I used to work were solicited by head
hunters all the time.  This sort of thing is routine.

Dan C.

At 05:09 PM 01-04-00 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:
>Well, it depends on how these persons names were obtained, and how the 
>contacts are made.  A companys employee list certainly can be considered 
>confidential and proprietary, and it is certainly an asset of the company.
>
>If I leave my company, and go to a competitor, and I, or my company through 
>information obtained from me, solicit my old colleagues, that certainly 
>would create a problem.  If, in a passing conversation, I am asked by an 
>old colleague if there are any opportunities with my new company, then the 
>coast is clear.
>
>No horse, or hockey here, but it's an interesting concept...
>
>
>> Horse Hockey.  Soliciting someone to obtain confidential or proprietary
>> information about a competitor is certainly fraught with ethical and 
>legal
>> issues, but simple employment?   Horse Hockey!
>
>> > >  Apparently the new Leica Distributor in Canada tried to have him 
>switch
>> > > job from Kindermann.  He refused.  Other technicians were also
>> > > unsuccesfully approached.
>> >
>> > I believe in the US there are laws about soliciting people 'in this
>> > manner'.  Usually, there are agreements in place that prohibit this. 
> If
>> > the technician wanted to contact the new distributor, that is certainly 
>OK
>> > in my book, but for the new distributor to solicit them, I believe, is
>> > unethical.
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