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Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

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Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

#11

courts won't enforce these. this is retarded.

Doesn't matter. First thing you sign when you join a new employer is an agreement that says something like "I am not under any other company's non-compete".

While this might not be enforceable, if you were a small company in a similar space, would you really risk hiring someone if you might get attacked by Google's lawyers?

Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

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post #11

courts won't enforce these. this is retarded.

Doesn't matter. First thing you sign when you join a new employer is an agreement that says something like "I am not under any other company's non-compete". While this might not be enforceable, if you were a small company in a similar space, would you really risk hiring someone if you might get attacked by Google's lawyers?

Might be good publicity, but also somewhat of a risk, if you were sued.

Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

#13
post #5

I'm assuming most of these people had non-competes signed with DoubleClick. So I'm not entirely sure what the problem is here. And yes, even if you're going to work for a single day you need to sign the standard noncompete agreements.

Maybe Google didn't like the non-compete signed with DoubleClick.

It didn't cover Google's properties.

Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

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post #11

courts won't enforce these. this is retarded.

Doesn't matter. First thing you sign when you join a new employer is an agreement that says something like "I am not under any other company's non-compete". While this might not be enforceable, if you were a small company in a similar space, would you really risk hiring someone if you might get attacked by Google's lawyers?

Yes, I would if I were in the state of California. If you were small, google wouldn't notice anyways.

Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, good luck hiring employees to treat as "property". I'm sure you'll get some real winners.

What about acquiring them?

exactly. they're not laying off Google employees (or at least not many). they're laying off people they bought the rights to.

Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

#17
A non-compete, like any contract, doesn't mean anything until a court actually enforces it. I'm no lawyer, but given the circumstances, I doubt these contracts will hold up in court well. Also, I'm pretty sure non-compete clauses are less enforcable when the employer does the termination.

Re: Did you sign Google's noncompete? Good, you're fired

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about acquiring them?

exactly. they're not laying off Google employees (or at least not many). they're laying off people they bought the rights to.

Those rights were never theirs to buy. This country banned slavery long ago.
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