We're talking about working simultaneously for direct competitors. You don't do that. You get rightfully fired from whichever company you're stabbing in the back. It's a conflict of interest, period.
Freelance or contractors hired only for a specific project does not apply.
It's a hypothetical, and it's describing clear CONFLICT OF
INTEREST, not a fucking iamverybadass comment.
If I started Big Ass data ANALysis and hired you design an analytics suite to sell access to businesses, and it's way better than direct competitor's Tiny Data Intelligence Computing's product, and you start working directly for Tiny DIC coding their product package, that's a conflict of interest and you WILL be fired. It's fucking simple.
I think I drunkenly suggested on a feedback form that my congressman yeet himself down the steps of the Capitol the other night. Here's to hoping they'll prove to be even more alike!
Poor Lieutenant Van Mayter. This stuck with me as one of the most horrifying ways to go in TNG.
(First is probably from asshole frog-god Nagilum.)