> who incompetent advise her That was very competent advice from the point of the company -- the HR person convinced her to sign the provision the company want

> who incompetent advise her That was very competent advice from the point of the company -- the HR person convinced her to sign the provision the company wanted her to sign, the company didn't have to face a choice between agreeing to strike the non-compete or letting her walk, and there was no record of the misleading "sales pitch" the HR representative used (which might have served as evidence of conflicting intentions, allowing a court to strike the non-compete provision on the grounds that the parties didn't intend it to be binding, or even caused future liability for the company if the HR rep's description of the non-compete crossed the line between legal sales techniques "oh that's not important, you don't want to think too hard about this part of the thing, everybody signs it" and illegal fraudulent misrepresentation "it says X" when it clearly it actually says Y which is totally different). It sounds like the HR person did their job competently.