Where should Vasya go so as not to harm his former employer?

Once again, we saw a wild example of a company suing its former employees. Surprisingly, many people in the comments defended the employer, so Vasya was born to me. Our Vasily left his employer for competitors. Vasily led the project to create an ARM processor in the previous place and continued to do this for competitors. In fact, Vasily is not indispensable, but he is not bad, about like you and me.



According to the former employer (hereinafter simply “former”), our Vasya is binary: he either brings hellish profit working for this employer, or causes colossal damage working for competitors, Vasily has no other fortunes. At the same time, any place where Vasily goes is a priori considered a competitor, and Vasya's performance itself (his profit) depends on the presence of an observer in this world - a former employer. If you exclude the employer, then Vasily's status is completely incomprehensible: as a developer of a product that has not yet been released, it is impossible to calculate its profitability or harm, it will definitely be possible to do this only after 10-20 years of product launch ambassadors. Yes, the past employer instilled in Vasya (and possibly convinced himself) that he is good and everything is based on him,



but what does Vasily really know about himself?



In the last place, did he see an increase in the company's income from its activities? Checking stock fluctuations, finding a correlation between their value and their activities? Have you seen what amounts are being poured into the company as a result of your arrival? Perhaps Vasily, at meetings sometimes saw some kind of financial statements and "someone said something." But Vasily is not an economist, he is a techie, he has no education and knowledge to assess his economic benefits to the company. In the best case, it all boiled down to the abstract "you are cool, who if not you, our Vassenka", and the prize given to Vasya, allegedly speaking about his extreme profitability. All this does not mean anything in essence.





And if he read a book at home after work in the evening and learned something new, what is that? Yes, maybe Vasily signed some documents on the result of intellectual activity and not disclosing something, but so what? The former needs to prove that, working in a new place, Vasya harms them. But this is a little more than impossible to do without espionage and, as a result, without criminal charges from the former. Moreover, it is necessary to prove that Vasya in his new place harms them with exactly the knowledge that he received from them. That is, to prove that Vasily did not know this and could not know, he only found out from them and now he walks and hurts them.





Okay, one last thing. Imagine that there are two companies that are so competitive with each other that right up to the ringing of sphericity in a vacuum, and our Vasya is the same villainous villain (according to the former) who snatched the ready-made technology under his arm for a brand new ARM process. And do you think Vasya will so easily turn around in a new place and continue this technology? Yes there is a hell (sorry)! The equipment is always different, it always has its own specifics and to "pull" someone else's technology onto other equipment, this is an hourly developmental task more difficult than doing everything from scratch. Vasily's new company has different suppliers, different logistics and purchases, a different team (possibly toxic people for Vasya), a different bureaucratic work schedule. And so, while the former vomits and flies, training his lawyers and setting them on Vasily, our Vasya is sad in the new company and thinks,what else to do.



Therefore, I propose to debate how right I am, but in my opinion 99% of companies by courts with their employees or intimidation of current employees in the process of their work, simply scratch their own emergency situations, portraying large and important ones. For the modern world it is archaic to speculate on topics like "we are big and cool, and you are nobody, and therefore we will sue you, quitting your job do not even think of working anywhere (God forbid, you will harm her), but rather get into a corner and breathe every other time."



And our Vasily has nothing to fear, let him go to work wherever he sees fit. These are companies (well, these, the very ones that are evil and bad with soulless lawyers) need to be afraid of a workflow in which large projects are locked on one person (and not on a group of developers with a distribution of responsibilities as it should be, and without creating intelligible documentation) and he is forced to plow for wear and tear with the subsequent dismissal.