On Oct 31, 2022, at 11:45 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Rich for shedding light on this. Most of it makes sense to me, > but the secrecy part where you weren't allowed to talk to those still at > the museum is weird. I can't see any possible commercial reason for > preventing former engineering staff to talk with their former colleagues or > replacements. If anything you would think that any new staff would be > encouraged to talk to the engineers who left to benefit from their > experience. As I said this appears to be rather strange.
I think you have it backwards: The way I read Rich's message, former LCM+L staff can talk to each other -- they can't really prevent that! -- but anyone still on at LCM+L can't talk to them about LCM+L (or presumably the public). That's fairly standard for a company; if I were to leave my employer, my former colleagues wouldn't be able to talk to me about current internal goings-on there because I'm a civilian. (We could certainly talk about anything else.) It's a bit weird for an educational/cultural institution though. -- Chris
