More Collaboration -User Poll

[PJW]

My concern in this respect was that I would be posting my efforts which are an indication of my capability as a Designer [though this applies to other roles] to persons who are or may be either my organisations number one client or indeed competitors in the Signalling Market.

If I do begin to post answers I would definitely seek the authority of my Line Manager before doing so and perhaps this should be recommeded to new users?

If you want to do that, fine and I certainly wouldn't contradict yet I wouldn't feel necessary to encourage either. However one benefit may be that your line manager might actually offer you their own help.

Whilst I am still an employee of client organisation, I would say
1) If let a contract to "Joe Smith and company" to do some work, this would be based upon things like Link-up approval, internal management processes and comptence assessment, IRSE licenses etc; unlike to know that particular named individuals to do work (perhaps in higher powered consultancy but almost certainly those people are already MIRSE)
2) I wouldn't necessarily know who CMcGrory9 was or what company worked for
3) If I did and I found that the person were actually attempting to learn about a branch of signal engineering in which they weren't expert, I think I'd consider this a positive rather than a negative.
4) Even taking design per se, a lot of designers do not get involved with Signalling Plan design nor Control Table production that tend to be the focus of mod 2 and mod 3; I venture to suggest half of those in the NR Reading STPE office fall into that category. The fact that they may not actually know much about those subjects doesn't stop them being good designers of location, level crossings, SSI data .....

Do remember that IRSE licencing is primarily about competency to do the day job and that IRSE exam is less about the specific detail but more about wider understanding; the two are largely complementary though of course some overlap.

My own view is that I do have difficulty really appreciating what the worries are, but yes everyone needs to feel comfortable, satisfy themselves that not in breach of Contract of Employment etc.