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Working two jobs is often a conflict of interest, and it's normal for that to not be allowed.

It's why there is the concept of the Chinese Wall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

This includes public facing social media. You are now a publisher.

You can still get angry at Disney for allowing one sort of Twitter account but not others or firing people over jokes. But this is 2005, it's a bit late.

Risk it, or be secretive or get written permission. Don't be an NPC and not understand reality.



> Working two jobs is often a conflict of interest, and it's normal for that to not be allowed.

Wherever you went with this in your head, you drove past the point a while ago, I think. It is absolutely not normal for a vendor to dictate what an employee of a customer does.


OP was not working for Bitkeeper, he was simply at an employer that used BK. That is a wholly different situation.




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