[unclebilly]

I used to design fuel cells before I switched to the oil patch. We had one of our senior scientists resign once and he was walked out. Like you, he was working on something only he was privy to and was planning to spend his last 2 weeks finishing it up, documenting his work etc. It was a stupid HR decision to do this and it never happened again.

Anyway, the company that this fellow went to later bought our company - I'm sure that that HR jerk felt a bit uncomfortable working with Peng again.

When I quit, I was working on a project for the California Energy Commision and even came in 2 weeks after my last day to complete my report foir the CEC with the required amount of test data (the fuel cell system needed to have a certain number of hours on it as part of the test).