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Subject:Re: Portfolio From:Reuven Frank <reuven -at- E-AND-C -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:16:13 +0200
You have the right to retain copies of ALL the work you have done for a company ,
and to include this work in your portfolio.
However!!! And this is a big BUT, you must also comply with the Agreement of Cionfidentiality
which most people are required to sign nowadays.
For example, I wrote a very detailed procedure for an analytical chemistry laboratory. I included the work in my protfolio as an example of very clear, concise, work.
Before putting it in to my private "stock," I edited the numerical quantities out of the document, so that the steps were clear and the amounts of each chemical were deleted.
I felt that the document then conformed to everyone's standards.
(by the way, I was considering bringing suit against this company. After I left, they deleted my name from the authorship of all the documents I had written.)
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From: Rose Katz
Sent: Sat, 15 Aug.98 00:44 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Portfolio
Does anyone know who the work you did for a company belongs to. i.e. Can
you take a sample of the work you did for a company and include it in your
portfolio?
