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I know a lot of you work in the tech industry does anyone have experience with non-compete (and similar) agreements? Mine isn't technically a non-compete, but it says all my ideas are theirs and extends 6 month past leaving. It even includes domain names, so say I buy a domain and it's valuable later on they could try to claim it as there own.
How enforceable are these things and when the contract is left ambiguous does it extend beyond the direct work related matters? I want to work on a side hustle but now I'm in a weird state of can't be too ambitious or do anything directly tied to my name. Is it worth starting up something and using family members as strawmen or will this get seen through?
It's also phrased in such a way that makes it seem like I can't directly go to another job. ie. That overlap period of work would still be 'owned' by the old company. I did have a coworker that left for another job recently and it wasn't a problem (he might not have signed the same document and/or said go fuck yourself if they tried, he might have started before they did such things.
And why is there such a culture in tech/engineering like you can't ever work a different job in the same industry and that it's somehow dishonest. How did engineers let themselves be such cucks?
Do you guys have any experience with this? I'm personally OK with what I did, it was my first job out of college and if need be I have a good reason to take a nice long vacation, but it doesn't seem right. And most people don't just quit and start a business, you have something that grows organically.
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non competes are almost never enforced by the courts.
The reason these are considered jokes is that they essentially make it so that you can't even work any job for half a year to as many as seven years after leaving.
The only time people are actually sued is when a competing company head hunts an employee with the intentions of using their knowledge of their current employer for their own benefit.
The courts really don't play nice with non compete cases unless it was proven that you used their resources or something you acquired while working to use against them.
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>>1820564
>non competes are almost never enforced by the courts.
I mostly figure as much. Really I'm worried if I make a successful website or app, like something that I can turn around and sell for thousands of dollars could all get yanked out from under me. Or worse sued after the fact.
My thing right now is I don't really make software they would want, ie. a porn site. But I'd like to set my sights higher.
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>>1820751
>Really I'm worried if I make a successful website or app, like something that I can turn around and sell for thousands of dollars could all get yanked out from under me. Or worse sued after the fact.
Just make sure you do all of your personal work on your own personal time with your own equipment
Really, all companies want to do is to make sure you don't make something great at work and quit right before it's finished to start your own business, or to make sure you don't give a competing company their secret sauce.
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