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Re:Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired by henning on Friday April 11, 2008 @12:08AM (#160711)
Yeah, good luck hiring employees to treat as "property". I'm sure you'll get some real winners.
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Re:Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired by mattmaroon on Friday April 11, 2008 @12:34AM (#160725)
What about acquiring them?
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Re:Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired by cstejerean on Friday April 11, 2008 @01:35AM (#160782)
exactly. they're not laying off Google employees (or at least not many). they're laying off people they bought the rights to.
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Re:Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired by DaniFong on Friday April 11, 2008 @03:44AM (#160846)
Those rights were never theirs to buy. This country banned slavery long ago.
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Re:Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired by cstejerean on Friday April 11, 2008 @09:50AM (#160989)
Really? Maybe someone should take a closer look at EA.
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Re:Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired by mattmaroon on Saturday April 12, 2008 @03:19AM (#161733)
I don't see what Google did as being illegal. Certainly reprehensible, but making someone unemployable is not the same as employing them with zero salary.
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