On corporate stubbornness, stupidity & how the expert knows better than the copycat

A while ago, I was working as a third party service provider for a big company. I was offering a pretty nifty (and very profitable) service through their services marketplace that I invented and was also teaching classes and doing some other freelance work for this company on the side. One day, they informed me that it was a conflict of interests for me to offer myservice alongside the other things I did for the company and I would have to stop.

While I could see their point, I was also annoy...