FrioAg 00 said:
eric76 said:
I'm told that specialists at major hospitals are nearly always required to sign non-competes because the hospitals want to force the specialist to work for them and nobody else. The last thing they want is for them to leave and take their patients with them.
I also knew an engineer for one of the major NASA contractors who accepted early retirement and had already set up a job working on a different project for another contractor. He had a month long vacation scheduled between his early retirement and starting at the new contractor.
While on the vacation, the company he had retired from contacted him and let him know that they were blocking him from working for the new contractor. When he pointed out that the contract he was hired to work on by the new employer was not in competition with anything his previous employer did. They responded that it didn't matter because they might want to bid on that contract in the future.
So that left him at about 50 or 55 without a job. He eventually went to work installing air conditioning systems because he could not get a job in an area he was trained in.
The two examples that signed those contract terms - the specialist doctor and the nasa engineer - were they coerced into signing them?
When they decided unilaterally they wanted to violate the terms of their agreements they entered, did they also offer back the compensation they had accepted in the deals that included those agreement provisions?
Are there other examples of contracts you think should be ignored by the people who enter them?
What are you talking about?
Sure, some doctors would like to move to another employer but can't because of the non-compete agreements. The only one I know personally, a cousin of mine's husband, had to move to another city in order to change. I would imagine that is not uncommon.
The engineer was not going to a another company to compete against his former employer. He was going to another company to work on a contract that the other company had that was not in competition against his former employer. The former employer nixed that because at some point in the future they might compete for the contract. I think that hidden between the lines there is that the contract can come up for renewal from time to time and when it does, other companies can bid for it, but I don't know if that is the practice.
In neither case did they decide to violate the terms of their agreements. I don't know what could be going through your mind to imagine that they were trying to violate those agreements.
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