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Sumit Khanna has a blog post with the title, Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes:
[...] Over the course of the next fifteen years, I would be asked to sign non-competes several more times, always prior to employment. I've always refused, and until recently, I've never been denied a position because of that refusal.
A non-compete is a type of contract issued by an employer, typically part of the standard work agreement, job offer or non-disclosure agreement, which states that the employee agrees not to start a business that competes with their current company or to work for their company's competitors, for a set length of time (typically one year) after leaving or being terminated. If that sounds like an illegal contract, in the state of California, it is.
What are soylentils' experience with non-compete clauses?
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Saturday March 24 2018, @05:53AM (1 child)
In many regions, you can also just line out the offending paragraphs.
These days with everything electronic you could probably get away with asking for the digital copies "for your lawyer to review" or some similar excuse. Then edit them until suitable by keeping the fonts and layout the same, print, and keep a copy after they too have signed it.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Saturday March 24 2018, @08:34AM
Oh, I will do that a lot, once I feel the situation is hopeless. I will let on like I am in agreement, their eyes all light up like someone who just won the lottery - they may have sorted through hundreds of suckers to find one that will go for their papers... then I start lining it out and initialing.
They have a fit! You can't do that!
Seeing the letdown look on their faces was about the only thing I got from several hours of wasted time in a job interview. What kind of fool do they take me for giving me all this businesstalk weaselworded thingie for me to agree to anyway? I would have thought any sane person would be pissed if someone handed him such a thing. All so one-sided.
The way they word those things, they can hire me for a day, then I can't work for anyone else for five years? I retaliate by saying that all the work I do I retain full rights over, and they have license for the ONE I build for them. You know, when they do that kind of crap to me, I have this irresistible urge to return the treatment in kind.
If they did their car mechanic that way, no-one in town would touch their car with a ten foot pole. They would all leave the guy, all dressed up in his suit and tie, wagging his pen... Agree to this! Sign here! Agree to that! Read the Terms and Conditions! These are Binding Legal Documents! And once you fix my car, you are out of the repair business! Don't you want the job?
I'd rather go fix guitar amplifiers at the music store than have to put up with these suit-guys. It may not pay as well, but at least I won't be living with a bunch of suit-guys always hovering over me with the threat of lawsuits over some document. Besides what use does a big business have hiring technical artisans anyway? For me, everything is done with my tools... for them, their tools are pens and documents, and I find it perplexing how they stay in business having no deliverables but promises, handshakes, and lots and lots of brochures.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]