[FireBeyond]

> 3 days that you can do while still employed

That could easily put you in violation of your employment contract. And could result in your (ex-) employer coming after you, and/or your new employer.

I don't necessarily agree that it should, but it absolutely could.

[Eridrus]

You can make work trials that are obviously not competitive if you are really concerned, e.g. contributing a needed feature to an open source project. Realistically, companies are also just not going to sue.

If people are concerned about the risk of being paid, well, either you want to get paid or not, that's up to them, you can't have you cake and eat it too here.