If You Can't Stand the Heat, Stay Out of the Kitchen

How do you feel about non-compete clauses?  Personally, though I’ve signed one or two in the past, I’ve never let them bar me from pursuing what I needed to do to earn income.  One organization attempted to rein me in with a non-compete clause, utilizing letters from attorneys with imposing letterheads, which I replied to with a hearty invitation to pursue their spurious legal claim.  Nothing came of it.

Now, this does not mean that I would utilize proprietory information from a business with which I had severed ties.  I find doing that a somewhat repulsive use of someone elses shoulders to stand on, and I prefer to stand on my own.

Non-compete clauses are nothing more than a garlic necklace, or silver cross, to brandish because certain companies and individuals are afraid of competition.

“Hospital sues doctor over practice location."

Posted by on 06/13 at 06:30 AM

  1. Even when a person holds to the letter of a non-compete agreement, you can’t expect them to behave in your best interest. Jim Grove sold Grove Crane to FMC, and agreed not to make cranes for 5 years. Instead he started JLG Lift, which made extendable man-lifts for elevated work. Five years and one day later, the first of these with a hook instead of a man-basket was introduced.

    Posted by triticale  on  06/13  at  03:20 PM

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