Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
by Buttons840 on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:44PM
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It may be advantageous to purposely avoid an in person discussion of the contract (especially with an HR person who couldn't care less if you're hired or not), and then bring it up in an email. Because an email allows you to fully explain your position before being interrupted with something like "it's a standard contract" which would tend to shut down an in person conversation.
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Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
by vacri on Sunday May 14, 2017 @12:18AM
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> "it's a standard contract"
For my current gig as a linux sysadmin I was hired a couple of years ago, and handed a standard employee contract. There was a clause in there that I agreed not to install free software on my work computer. The clause was just there for tech naives who might install any old crap, but it was funny for a linux professional. There was zero trouble amending the 'standard contract' to get rid of that clause. :)
In any case, you can bet your booties that the higher up the food chain you go, the less people get a 'standard' contract and the more it's tailored individually to them.