Having accepted me as an employee, the company also has invested some resources and is reluctant to lose me. As such, I never had problems removing any annoying

Having accepted me as an employee, the company also has invested some resources and is reluctant to lose me. As such, I never had problems removing any annoying clauses in contracts. (True, being from a former communist country my tolerance to restrictive clauses is much higher than that of US citizens, so maybe that accounts for the difference.)