Seeking Help: Nondisclosure vs. generic QMS documents

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The point is that the ones used by your ex-employer are likely to be distinct and therefore covered under an NDA especially if they reveal even a hint of the internal operations of a company.

Although new employees frequently disclose information about the ex employers and ex employers almost expect it to happen, that doesn't make it right, even if it is relatively trivial information. I would suggest you get some good legal advice because it would seem to me that you are in a very precarious position.
Good advice. It isn't OK to just take stuff to a new employer and 'share' it with them. It belongs to your previous employer: they spent the time/money to produce it, including paying someone/various someones to do it. It becomes their intellectual property and no, it isn't 'just generic stuff'.

Now, if you know for absolutely sure that what was in use there was got from the net and used as is without any modification at all, you may be right. Otherwise, yes, you are in a precarious position. And if I were your ex-employer, I'd be distinctly underwhelmed by such theft. Because it is stealing - not dissimilar to walking out with one of their laptops, say, or a list of customers and taking that to another employer.

One lesson for all here is: make sure you read any NonDisclosure Agreement or any other undertaking you sign very carefully! And make sure you fully understand what it says, and what it bans you from doing. There's a reason why companies create 'em and get you to sign 'em.
 
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