If he was good and is still available, your best bet is probably to hire
your old employee as a contractor; at double the rate if you're lucky.

Gary

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Croslin, Robert <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> Dear Technetters,
>
> In my company's desire to save costs, the decision was made to lay off
> our own PCB designer and contract PCB design services to external design
> firms.  So far, it's working, but not as well as we had hoped.  The
> engineering staff realizes that when you dump an amazingly capable
> designer willing to work all-nighters and weekends without even being
> asked, something is lost, but Sr. Management does not.
>
> 1. I'm being asked to provide a set of standard terms and conditions for
> such arrangements.  Do any of you who use or provide contract PCB design
> services have a standard agreement you use?
>
> 2. Next, if when using a contract house and you discover they're not the
> right ones for that particular design for some reason, and mutually
> choose to move it to a more specialized firm, do you simply not pay
> anything to the original firm, even though they did build libraries and
> do placement and original routing, or do you negotiate a fee for time
> spent to date?
>
> I contend that these are services similar to what you receive at a
> doctor or dentist who "practice" their arts using learned skills and
> that it's simply not an exact science.  Am I wrong here?
>
> Bob Croslin
> The Nielsen Company
>
>

> ----------------------------------------------

Gary A. Crowell Sr., P.E., CID+
> www.linkedin.com/in/garyacrowellsr
>


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