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I once dealt with a company that both 1) insisted I be clear of any non-competes, and 2) had an utterly horrible non-compete clause, that they assured me they w
by danielweber 12y ago
I once dealt with a company that both 1) insisted I be clear of any non-competes, and 2) had an utterly horrible non-compete clause, that they assured me they would never enforce.
- tehwebguy 12y agoA company handed me a (client constrained) non-compete + non-hire and said the same before they would talk to me about a consulting gig. The first thing to surprise them was that I actually read it. You should have seen their eyes when I started redlining it in front of them. Agency: "We never enforce this, we are really cool, we even let one of our employees go work for one of our clients" Me: "That's not what the paper says though. If you want to initial where I crossed that part out I can sign." They dropped the issue and gave me the gig.
- danielweber 12y ago"No one ever reads it" is a standard negotiation tactic. You are being weird by trying to negotiate at all, so stop it, let's just move on okay?