Timeline for Asymmetrical Non-compete Clause
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| Dec 19, 2023 at 22:37 | comment | added | StingyJack | I think its funny that they think that working at a client is automatically competing with them. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 15:02 | comment | added | T. Sar | What happens if your client makes you sign an NDA preventing you from disclosing them to anyone else? What a mess of a contract... | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 8:52 | comment | added | stanri | What if you had two clients who both refused to share their portfolio. They could both be a conflict of interest and how would you know? This is ridiculous. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 7:37 | comment | added | keshlam | Note that employment contracts are almost never "symmetrical". The income/benefits should be enough to make it balance more reasonably. If they don't, look elsewhere or recalibrate your expectations, as appropriate. | |
| Dec 18, 2023 at 10:03 | comment | added | Olivier Dulac | @FrankHopkins: they don't even have to call and add: they can just tell "you can't go to that client, it is in our portfolio" and there would be no way to know. Disclosing the list of clients in advance would partly solve this: they can't predict which client you'll go to (but they still could list clients that are not really in the portfolio...) | |
| Dec 18, 2023 at 6:20 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 18, 2023 at 1:45 | answer | added | Hilmar | timeline score: 75 | |
| Dec 18, 2023 at 1:22 | comment | added | keshlam | Standard comment: "The customer is not always right. But the customer is the one holding the money. Would you rather be right, or paid?" Either answer is justifiable, remembering that there are both other clients and other people they can hire. | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 21:57 | answer | added | Rohit Gupta | timeline score: 43 | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 20:11 | comment | added | Donald | Region is helpful. This time of non-compete would be illegal in CA. | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 20:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 17, 2023 at 20:05 | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 22 | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 19:49 | comment | added | TheDemonLord | This feels like this would be better asked on Legal SE - because the fundamental question is how can you honor a contractual term, without knowing key details. I feel this is more a Legal question than a Workplace question. | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 17:34 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @brhans worse: what if they call the other company and add them to their portfolio before responding? ;) | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 17:25 | comment | added | keshlam | Agreed. If they won't fix it, walk away. | |
| Dec 17, 2023 at 17:18 | comment | added | brhans | This seems unmanageable. To be forever (or for however long the agreement specifies) obligated to call them to check before you can consider taking on a new client is unreasonable. What if they don't respond within a reasonable time? I wouldn't have agreed to something like this when I was in a similar position. | |
| S Dec 17, 2023 at 17:09 | review | First questions | |||
| Dec 17, 2023 at 21:57 | |||||
| S Dec 17, 2023 at 17:09 | history | asked | user142253 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |