[hartator]

Such a terrible article.

Just ask your friend. In 99% of cases, it's okay to ask. I mean if the guy or the girl want to leave, your friend is gonna to tell everything you need to know, what matters. And maybe, you aren't gonna to hire him because he is actually terrible or maybe your friend will just say he is fantastic and give you a green light.

> It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California.

There is no right to work in California. [1] It's the actual opposite. Coming from a VC, that's shameful.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law

[aptwebapps]

The 'right-to-work' doublespeak wins again. Horowitz is right (I think) that this behavior may violate California labor laws but he used the wrong term. The article you linked to explains what I mean but the gist is that right-to-work laws are laws that restrict union organizing in various ways.

Edit: It's not actually very relevant to this discussion but to the extent that it is, the fact that California does NOT have such a law means that workers have more rights than states that do.

[Fuxy]

Yep it should be quite easy to just ask your fiend about any potential employee applying to your company as long the employee is ok with that.

Being straight with the employee and your friend is the best policy.

You shouldn't mix business with friendship why would you care why the employee is leaving that's none of your business just give your friend a heads up so he can do something about it.

I'm sure he will appreciate it.