Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages

Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by luckydata on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:48PM (#18613959)

that's disingenuous, it's very hard to find a job that doesn't look exactly like the 5 last jobs you had. If you want to fix that you gotta fix the labor market and hiring practices first, which is wishful thinking. 60% is low.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by adrianratnapala on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:54PM (#18614004)

> it's very hard to find a job that doesn't look exactly like the 5 last jobs you had

That's funny, I've never had a job that was exactly like any of the other jobs I've had. Depending on how picky you are, I've never had a job that was even particularly similar to any of my previous ones.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by akoncius on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:28PM (#18614208)

I was thinking the same because I am a programmer and it’s quite easy to find programming job in another area. But then I thought about other industries, dor example if I’m researcher about LED lights for 20 years, then my other options for another non-LED related job is very limited. So I’m confident that there are many example as this which can prove your logic (and my initial thinking too) wrong.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by cortesoft on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:01PM (#18614055)

Really? All of your jobs have been for competitors of each other? I don't think that is the case for most people.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by luckydata on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:25PM (#18614590)

Most non-competes are usually imposed on very specialized professions like market analysts and accountants at global firms for example. If you're barred from working for another financial firm for 2 years, what are you going to do?

I'm surprised to see such a narrow view about this issue on this forum.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by ghaff on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:15PM (#18614811)

One area of non-competes I'm somewhat familiar with is consultants/analysts for a particular market. If they leave, sure, they can go work for a vendor or other participant in a different side of the market. Which is a very different job. But they basically can't do their role with another firm or independently. And my understanding is that these non-competes are regularly enforced.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by tlavoie on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:16AM (#18625537)

A company I worked for had something like this, basically along the lines of, "you can't poach customers or other employees for a year." You likely could still work on your own as a consultant in the same field, but what it appeared to disallow was trying to take your clients with you.

The company was acquired, (and that in turn), when the new parent tried rolling out new contracts per employee, with a short turnaround to sign. Among other things, the new version basically would have prevented me from working in my field for a year.

I told them I needed time to have it reviewed by my lawyer, and I did too. Sure, the backlash had them rolling back the demand forthwith, but it convinced me that the ideal time to leave was immediately, under my old contract.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by dfxm12 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:52AM (#18618444)

I'm surprised to see such a narrow view about this issue on this forum.

This forum oddly has some anti-labor sentiment. It is seen in this thread and also in threads related to unions, where the tone is quite obviously anti-union.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by mindcrime on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:45PM (#18620275)

What's odd about being anti-union? Depending, I guess, on how exactly you define "anti-union".

Me, I'm very anti-union in that I never want to be part of one, but OTOH, I fully support their right to exist as simply the collective extension to the individual members' right to bargain.

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