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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Dear HLJ, You have two situations here. One is about making money anyway that you can at every opportunity, that is not unethical, it is about survival. The other is about using your position in a company for personal gain, on company time, basically manipulating the system behind the scenes, based on business dealings on company time for personal gain. This is blatantly unethical.
Now if you were to deal with referrals outside of company time, based on business dealings off company time, off company property (phones, computers, blackberry's, etc...) then there is no problem.
IMHO there MUST be a clear delineation between what you do and profit from at work for personal gain, and what your work environment is expecting you to do for them on personal time. That includes any and all expectations of monetary reimbursement based upon business dealings with the said previous company on company time.
IMHO, you are walking an ethical and potentially legal tightrope...
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M - I agree. However, a certain amount of what I do is considered marketing or networking, and part of that is making contacts, helping people out, etc.
So if Company A calls me and says, "We're looking for a someone who can do XXX permitting," and I say, "Call 'Bob,' I've worked with him in the past and he's always done a good job," I'm helping out Company A, thereby incurring their good will (assuming 'Bob' does a good job) and potentially bringing in future jobs for us. I'm also helping Bob by bringing him work.
In addition, I get paid the same if I work 40 hours per week or 60 hours per week, and I almost always work more than 40 hours per week, so if I spend a few minutes on the above scenario it's not costing the company anything. In other words, there is no clear delineation between company time and personal time.