Interesting Development . . .

[Pathfinder]

"A.R.M.S. Inc. wins Trade Secret and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Lawsuit against Stephen P. Troy, Jr. and Troy Industries, Inc.."
"Jury in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts awards A.R.M.S., Inc. $1.8M in weapons accessory trial."

http://www.armsmounts.com/default.asp?mode=news

FTA: "A.R.M.S. alleged that its former employee of seven months, Stephen Troy, who had held a position of trust and confidence with the company, had stolen A.R.M.S.'s trade secrets for a proprietary handguard system for use on M-4/M-16/AR-15 rifles and incorporated those trade secrets in a competing modular, free-float railed handguard system that attached to the barrel nut and that was being offered and sold by Troy Industries, commencing after he was fired from A.R.M.S."

[tombogan03884]

Most people in those sort of positions have to sign non disclosure and non compete agreements.
He violated the Non competition agreement just by starting his own Company even if the designs were entirely his own.

[Timothy]

I've had to sign agreements to sign over ANYTHING I design whilst under the employ of General Dynamics, Nuclear Fuel Services, and my current employer.

Basically, anything I do, wether at work or home, is the property of my employer until a pre-determined length of time has elapsed after my termination.

[Hazcat]

I've had to sign agreements to sign over ANYTHING I design whilst under the employ of General Dynamics, Nuclear Fuel Services, and my current employer.

Basically, anything I do, wether at work or home, is the property of my employer until a pre-determined length of time has elapsed after my termination.

You have to wait until you've been dead for awhile?!

[Timothy]

You have to wait until you've been dead for awhile?!

That's one way to look at it!  It's one reason I got out of design work though.....manufacturing someone elses crappy designs is much more challenging.....Ask Mr. Bogan.....

 

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

  I've seen an engineer come to a machinist with a piece of metal with a hole in one end, He told the machinist' I want another hole the same diameter exactly 6 inches away", machinist told him it could not be done, engineer says "my calculations say it can , do it."

The part was only 4 inches long, the machinist welded on a piece of scrap with a washer welded to it.  

[Pathfinder]

 I've seen an engineer come to a machinist with a piece of metal with a hole in one end, He told the machinist' I want another hole the same diameter exactly 6 inches away", machinist told him it could not be done, engineer says "my calculations say it can , do it."

The part was only 4 inches long, the machinist welded on a piece of scrap with a washer welded to it.  

Gee, I wonder who the machinist was . . . .   

[tombogan03884]

Gee, I wonder who the machinist was . . . .   

No it wasn't me  one of the guys I worked with.

[Timothy]

I once watched a "Boot" engineer tighten a hex head bolt with a vernier caliper.....same guy needed a calculator to make change of a dollar.

Must have majored in Beer Bongs.....thirty years of teaching college kids how NOT to get fired.....I'm tired!

Today, I'm working on a part, designed in 1963 for a small steam turbine for General Electric.  It will probably cost us twice the price  the asshat GM sold it for.....

I'm surrounded by incompetence.......imbeciles, morons and ego-maniacal narcissists......

Sigh....any one got any "Pisco"?


 

[Kid Shelleen]

 I've seen an engineer come to a machinist with a piece of metal with a hole in one end, He told the machinist' I want another hole the same diameter exactly 6 inches away", machinist told him it could not be done, engineer says "my calculations say it can , do it."

The part was only 4 inches long, the machinist welded on a piece of scrap with a washer welded to it.  

That's funny right there.