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Subject:Re: ethical problem/job hunting From:Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:24:03 -0700
My experience here in California is that, in general, you don't mention to
your current employer that you are job hunting. It would very negatively
effect how you and your work are perceived and it would undermine your
credibility. Then if you didn't find something right away. . . I'm sure
there are some exceptions to this but I've never encountered them.
FWIW just my $.02.
Toni
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric J. Ray [SMTP:ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 11:34 AM
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> Subject: FWD: ethical problem/job hunting
>
<snip some>
> I'm really glad Arlen brought this up, because I had been wondering
> whether
> I should. I had concluded, since Anonymous's employee told *him* she was
> jobhunting, that this might be an environment where jobhunting openly is
> okay. But it never hurts to be on the safe side.
>
> Hope this question isn't too naive--but is jobhunting on the sly pretty
> much the rule Out There?
>
>
