doohickeyjones (3/16/2009)
I always have my email (and therefor my contacts) backup up at home, especially now that I can just connect my Outlook at home to my Exchange here at work.The only contacts\emails I would use would be the ones for my personal contacts and vendors\contractors I wanted to stay in touch with, etc.
Nonetheless, 95% of the people reading this, these are all property of your employer/client.
I do also periodically back up all my own coding and ship it home. Since I am often coding from home, it makes business sense while I am at @CurrentJob, and yes, I'd likely carry most of it with me to a new job to use as a reference, if nothing else.
Obviously, I would have to comb through it and recode it to match the new company's needs, and I would certainly make sure no actual data from the previous job got carried over.
If I worked for a company that was reselling my code, that would be a big 'No No', but since the company is just using it for the Reports server, etc, I don't feel as if I am taking anything from them.
No, this is a big "No, no" already. This is NOT your property, it is their property. They are free to let you take it with you if they want to, but it is THEIR call, not yours. This is legally, ethically and morally no different than secretly photocopying all of the business files in your office and taking them home to help you out with your next job.
(Plus, of course, by having backup copies, I can still answer questions for them down the road, or help whoever replaces me do troubleshooting)
Again, legally their decision, and not yours.
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