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A comment on Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job. Parent comment

Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job by joeblow9999 on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:53PM (#14332674)
There is the small issue of whether or not your personal integrity allows you to sign an agreement you do not intend to abide, regardless of the legality.
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Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job by marcosdumay on Saturday May 13, 2017 @05:38PM (#14333156)
Well, somebody is trying to impose something so absurd onto you that it is illegal, and you still have moral issues about lying to him?
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Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job by chrisbennet on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:01PM (#14333734)
That's one of the qualities of having integrity - a lack of integrity in others does not change your behavior.
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Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job by umanwizard on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:42PM (#14333684)
Why would legality change the moral aspect?

The law is an imperfect reflection of morals, not the other way around. Most people's sense of morality is not based on the law.

It's possible for perfectly reasonable people to think non-competes are not "absurd", regardless of California employment law.

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