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@RTapeLoadingError said:@clively said:We don't hire people from partners. We also do not hire competitors employees. It's just better that way for all involved.
However, we have had competitors try to hire our people away.... and I did encourage one of those deals. The person was damaged goods and was a bigger help to us by going to work for them. -- no, that person didn't feed us any information. They were just that bad.
We had one of those guys - it was a huge relief when he jumped ship and went to one of our customers. We, his peers, knew he was hopeless but the managers didn't do anything to get rid of him.
I used to be a contractor in a big federal agency and most middle managers were always applauding and agreeing to pool resources when higher-ups would start YATF (yet another task force). From the outside it could look like people cared about the projects, but the truth is that for them it was a wonderful opportunity to get rid of some of their worst employees because firing people is very difficult in that organization. People were calling that "paying it forward", which I still find hilarious.
There was one guy who was famous in the building. He had been caught stealing memory sticks in computers and one time he was even caught on tape cutting a long piece of copper pipe in the basement; he punched a receptionist because she would not validate his parking ticket; he pretend-sodomized a senior manager in the elevator; he would frequently snore while sleeping at his desk; etc. They could not fire him so he was always assigned to task forces, to the point where his self-proclaimed nickname was Mr T* (for "Mr Task Force").
* he was black but looked more like Cleveland from Family Guy than Mr T