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Not everyone shares your good fortune. I did work I was quite proud of for a large corporation (on a contract that ended on good terms). Despite the project manager's advocating for me with the corporate counsel, the company would not budge, no matter how I disguised names, numbers, and other identifying information.
In short, YMMV.
Dick
PS: That didn't stop me from getting my next (better) job. It just meant I couldn't use the samples I wanted to use.
"White, Bonita" wrote:
>I have never had a position where I did not use examples from my work files
>even if they were copyrighted, confidential or proprietary. I even have some
>stuff that either has a patent pending or a patent assigned and some
>intellectual property stuff.
>
>My solution is to simply edit everything. I removed all the screen
>captures, included pages out of sequence, only included a sample of a page
>or chapter or paragraph, etc. I almost always showed my employer how I was
>going to use the document before hand (although I did have some pieces from
>a job where I quit and never had a chance to show anyone; but I used to same
>process to include them) and I never had anyone say that I couldn't include
>it.
>
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