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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I'll give my take in reverse order ;) 2 - Anything that give you an initial foot in the door is positive! It's always easier to expand business with an existing client than getting work from a brand new client. 1 - Legally wrong? It might very well be... [i]However, the fact that I am finding potential clients through my work at the paper just sends off little alarm bells in the back of my mind.[/i] And right you are to listen to them! Ask yourself these questions: - First, does the company where you work do any web-work at all? Or, do they have partnership/business relations with a web-company? If they do, they would most certainly frown angrily at you if you grabbed work from their clients and steered into your own "moonlighting". What you are supposed to do in a case like this is to sell the webidea to the client and then pass them on to the right department. Personally I might even fire someone that did this if I ran a company and came across stuff like this. - Second, Is there anything your employee contract that mention this or similar things. - If you've been at the paper for a while, isn't there anyone you could ask? The only reason not to ask is if you've decided to do this regardless if it's right or wrong. Otherwise you can get an "Ok, as long as it doesn't interfere with your day job", they might even like it since it forms a stronger personal tie between your department and the client that the paper can benefit from (if the client is happy with the web-part of course). Or you can get a "No way, they are our clients, hands off! Besides we want you to be devoted to our job, not split between two jobs." That way you know that you are on thin ice and should stay hands off = no problems. The third option is that they want you to do it in their name as part of your job. Then you should negotiate a raise! Morally wrong? Well, the best way to answer that is to put yourself in your companys shoes and think of how you would react if you found out something like this. Generally, if something makes you uneasy thinking of it, it probably is against your personal moral standing. Personally I'd be up front with this. Either ask, or hands off it it makes you uneasy. /Dan [url=http://www.dmsproject.com/] [img]http://www.dmsproject.com/gif/sig3.gif[/img] [/url] [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?sortby=rating&id=260]{cell 260}[/url] -{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }- Loading...
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