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Re: by btilly on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:46PM (#13926559)
If you want to know your rights then run, do not walk, to a lawyer. Whether or not a non-compete is binding, and what it binds you to is a matter of state law, and you need someone who knows your state's law to know what applies to you. The answer could be anything from you can sign and laugh at their ignorance to you might as well be signing away your firstborn.

As for negotiating, there is no good answer to that. Or rather, there are many. But the negotiating tactics that work best for me are very, very different than the ones that work best for my wife. Without knowing you better any advice is as likely to hurt as help.

But there is one other piece of advice. You might want to delete this post. Right now you are unhappy, but if coworkers see this post THEY might get unhappy with YOU. Even if you change your mind, that could be a problem. Questions like this shouldn't be traceable back to you on the internet.

Re: by theandrewbailey on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:15PM (#13926786)
They already know I disagree with this: team, manager, and CEO.
Re: by btilly on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:54PM (#13927033)
But they still might not like you discussing this in public. At. All.

Your profile has more than enough identifying information to find you on LinkedIn. Which means that I now can name a company that is potentially going to be bought out by someone else. My guess is that this is supposed to be a confidential deal.

This is NOT something to do while in a situation that could easily result in conflict. It is one thing to leave, another to burn bridges, and a very different third to burn bridges so completely that you wind up in the legal system. And any future potential employer who sees this will see a giant red flag.