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[DodgyAgent]

Cue disturbing image of DA in a gimp mask whipping his staff screaming "phones! phones! new business or no gruel!"

That is exactly how it works. MSB used to hang your P45 over your head from the ceiling on a piece of cotton. The manager would wander around the office with a pair of scissors and "snip". Off to the dole office with you.

[DodgyAgent]

Do you remember the drawing I made of a protocol stack and the various layers?

Yes, I do - is the short answer!

Of course I do

[NotAllThere]

That is exactly how it works. MSB used to hang your P45 over your head from the ceiling on a piece of cotton. The manager would wander around the office with a pair of scissors and "snip". Off to the dole office with you.

How do you prevent staff from walking of to a competitor/setting themselves up on their own, having just made a copy of your database?

( Apart from the technical skills most agents lack, that is).

[Churchill]

Of course I do

Sorry mate, didn't mean to embarass you.

[ThomasSoerensen]

How do you prevent staff from walking of to a competitor/setting themselves up on their own, having just made a copy of your database?

( Apart from the technical skills most agents lack, that is).

I think you answered your own question

[DodgyAgent]

How do you prevent staff from walking of to a competitor/setting themselves up on their own, having just made a copy of your database?

( Apart from the technical skills most agents lack, that is).

I was accused of pinching the database off my previous company until one of my former colleagues pointed that I would not know how to

Otherwise, agencies are pretty good at identifying the people that they do not wish to lose and tying them in. If someone leaves and starts dealing with their old customers you will find that their previous agency may stamp on them.

[Churchill]

I was accused of pinching the database off my previous company until one of my former colleagues pointed that I would not know how to

Otherwise, agencies are pretty good at identifying the people that they do not wish to lose and tying them in. If someone leaves and starts dealing with their old customers you will find that their previous agency may stamp on them.

Yeah, I've always thought that...

How are "Pathway" going to deal with "ClearCube"?

[DodgyAgent]

Yeah, I've always thought that...

How are "Pathway" going to deal with "ClearCube"?

either in the same way that antoniades used to deal with his staff when they left and set up (baseball bats) or there will be lots of legal letters flying around

[Churchill]

either in the same way that antoniades used to deal with his staff when they left and set up (baseball bats) or there will be lots of legal letters flying around

Well, we'll wait and see...

[NotAllThere]

I was accused of pinching the database off my previous company until one of my former colleagues pointed that I would not know how to...

Send a purchase order, and I'm sure one of us will be happy to train you.

( But I guess you just used the old "write the important details down on a bit of paper" trick - that'd fool many agents ).