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Getting paid 50% of my peak salary for just sitting on my ass and doing nothing sounds great to me. I'd go for it. Move to Spain for a couple of years, pursue m
by m0zg 7y ago
Getting paid 50% of my peak salary for just sitting on my ass and doing nothing sounds great to me. I'd go for it. Move to Spain for a couple of years, pursue my hobbies, stuff like that.
- TomVDB 7y agoIt's great for some specific cases, but it's not great if you have fixed costs to pay.
- m0zg 7y agoI'm sure one can find a job outside their field for 50% less money which doesn't trigger the non-compete, if that's the case. Though, TBH, I'd like the comp to be 100% of the offer I'd be forced to forego. I.e. I go interview somewhere, negotiate an offer with them, and if my previous employer feels very strongly about me not working there, they can pay me 100% of the total package to not work there. That's the only set-up that'd be truly "fair" to the former employee, IMO.
- pmiller2 7y agoI don't know. I think I'd be hard pressed to find a job outside of software engineering as a whole that paid half what I'm making now. Maybe I could get a SWE job with a company in an unrelated field, but probably not outside of software entirely.
- cgriswald 7y agoEven that’s not entirely fair. You’re not just missing out on salary, but opportunities for growth and advancement. And, depending on your field, you might also be unable to keep your skills honed.
- saagarjha 7y agoConsidering that this means I cannot find employment at all and can’t contribute to open source, I would be somewhat disappointed.
- hrktb 7y agoThey don’t actually prevent you from working. They’ll usually have to declare before you leave if they enforce the non compete or not, and if so they will pay 50% whatever you do, for the length of the clause. What the GP was expliciting is that since paying 50% for an employee with low risk is absurd, a lot of companies won’t enforce the non compete.
- saagarjha 7y agoMy point is that if they do choose the noncompete for whatever reason, I’m still losing.
- hrktb 7y agoYou end up losing if it’s so hard finding a job that’s out of the non-compte that you end up unemployed for the length of the agreement. In that case the only recourse would be to try sue/re-negociate under the angle that the non-compete is unfair (too low pay or too broad scope). Otherwise, if you find another job in another field, you’d get the full job salary + the 50% from the non-compete. That’s usually fair enough.