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The Human Factor in Noncompete Disputes: Howie Carr Is Still
Upset Over 5 Years After His Lawsuit With WRKO
by Brian Bialis
I am a fan of talk radio, so I was sad when I heard that Boston’s WTKK-FM 96.9 had decided to switch from a talk-radio format to a station featuring “rhythm and dance music from today, along with throwbacks from the ‘80s and ‘90s.” Now I listen to WRKO-AM 680, the only talk station left in Boston.
One of the big names on WRKO is conservative Howie Carr, who also writes a column for the Boston Herald. Carr was involved in a lawsuit with WRKO in 2007 when he announced his intention to accept an offer from WTKK and move his program to that station. He lost that lawsuit because of a right-of-first-refusal in his contract with WRKO, as Michael Rosen explained here and here. He’s been with WRKO ever since.
But apparently Carr has just been waiting to make a jump to FM. About two weeks ago, he wrote a column in the Herald lamenting his loss in the lawsuit, writing “I’m still damn sorry I didn’t make good my escape from the AM band” and “WTKK wouldn’t be turning off the lights next week if I could have just gotten over there back in 2007.” He also wrote that “WTKK [has] one of the best signals in the city, on FM, and WRKO’s signal is — well, please, don’t get me started on that. My head will explode. Again.” Carr concludes by announcing that, “[i]n two years, I’ll be on FM, one way or another.”
Carr’s attitude towards WRKO highlights the human factor in noncompete disputes. Employers should be careful what they wish for when they make employees sign noncompetes. If an employee is unhappy with his job, but feels stuck in that job because of a noncompete he signed with his employer, then what the employer gets is an unhappy, often less productive, employee. Employers should balance their interests in protecting their businesses with those of having a content and productive workforce when deciding whether to have employees sign noncompetes and how onerous those noncompetes should be.
Liz Warren cut by own ‘jagged edge’
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Not so many moons ago, a fake Indian named Elizabeth Warren went on the warpath, trying to rile up the “middle class.”
The middle class was getting hammered, she kept saying. Psst, pass the word to the person behind you in the line at the cheese shop — the middle class is getting hammered.
How did Granny Warren know this? Because she grew up on what she termed “the jagged edge of the middle class.” Her definition of “jagged edge” was only having three cars in the family driveway in 1965, including her own personal white MG sports car.
Now, however, the fake Indian is in the U.S. Senate, and guess what — she can no longer define what the middle class is. Won’t even take a stab at it.
We know this because Ch. 25’s Sharman Sacchetti, the reporter who plays Capt. Ahab to Warren’s Moby Dick, cornered her last week and started asking her about the middle class. The supposedly “legendary” high school debater melted yet again into a pool of non sequiturs, non-answers and nonsense.
Sacchetti’s questions always drive the fake Indian nuts because they aren’t of the “gotcha” variety. They’re totally legit, as in: “What numbers are we talking about in terms of income levels?”
“It’s not a numbers issue,” the Indian emeritus said. “I know you would expect a very wonky answer from me about the percentiles… .”
No, actually we’d expect a clumsy evasion, such as:
“When we strengthen education we make it possible for kids to go to college, then we strengthen America’s middle class, and that doesn’t mean a dollar figure.”
Will Your Honor please direct the witness to answer the question?
But of course she won’t. Because she knows taxes are going up on everybody who works. And the fake Indian is not going to allow herself to get saddled with a definition that can be thrown back against her later, as in, “Senator, I thought you said taxes were only going up on millionaires and billionaires.”
As Obama’s low-information voters have discovered over the last week, they are apparently now millionaires and billionaires, because their paychecks have shrunk, thanks to the Obama increases in the Social Security payroll tax.
Of course, this has happened before. Obama ran in 2008 promising no increase in taxes on anyone making under $250,000. What he forgot to add was, “unless you smoke cigarettes.”
There’s an old saying. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Or is that too complex a concept for Obama’s constituents to grasp?
It was a busy week for Granny Warren and her supporters. Some of her Kool-Aid drinking moonbats got into her biography on Wikipedia and erased all the evidence about her fake Indian heritage — her grandparents’ phony “elopement,” the plagiarized recipes, the fact that one of her ancestors actually shot an Indian, the “high cheekbones” argument, etc. etc. etc.
By week’s end, a watered-down version of the fake-Indian scandal was back on line, but odds are it won’t be there for long. Being a moonbat means you never have to worry about telling the truth. Just ask anybody from the jagged edge of the middle class.
Actually, the term “middle class” has become somewhat obsolete in the layabout Obama regime. There are only two classes now: the working and the nonworking classes. There are shades of gray at the margins — retired people can still be working class, as are the truly disabled. But by and large it’s very easy to tell which class you’re in.
If your first paycheck of 2013 was smaller than your last of 2012, you’re working class. If your first welfare check of 2013 was the same as your last of 2012, you’re nonworking class — a Democrat, in other words.
Meanwhile, Sharman wasn’t giving up.
“The middle class,” she said, “is by definition a group of people in a certain income level.”
“No,” said the fake Indian, in an response amazing even for her. Then how do you define tax rates, if not by income? Sharman tried the old, “What if you make a million bucks a year?” question, but Granny still wasn’t biting.
“How about somebody who’s taught school for 10 years and takes off a year to go back to school and only has an income of $4,000?”
You’re about as likely to run into such a person as you are to run into a unicorn, or a 1/32nd Native-American professor at Harvard Law.
“It’s a whole lot of characteristics that define the middle class,” Granny said. Let the record show, she refused to list one of them.
“It sounds a little like a dodge,” Sharman Sacchetti said.
Actually it sounds a lot like a dodge. But you get what you vote for. As the old TV show used to say, “You asked for it!”
Liz Warren cut by own ‘jagged edge’
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Not so many moons ago, a fake Indian named Elizabeth Warren went on the warpath, trying to rile up the “middle class.”
The middle class was getting hammered, she kept saying. Psst, pass the word to the person behind you in the line at the cheese shop — the middle class is getting hammered.
How did Granny Warren know this? Because she grew up on what she termed “the jagged edge of the middle class.” Her definition of “jagged edge” was only having three cars in the family driveway in 1965, including her own personal white MG sports car.
Now, however, the fake Indian is in the U.S. Senate, and guess what — she can no longer define what the middle class is. Won’t even take a stab at it.
We know this because Ch. 25’s Sharman Sacchetti, the reporter who plays Capt. Ahab to Warren’s Moby Dick, cornered her last week and started asking her about the middle class. The supposedly “legendary” high school debater melted yet again into a pool of non sequiturs, non-answers and nonsense.
Sacchetti’s questions always drive the fake Indian nuts because they aren’t of the “gotcha” variety. They’re totally legit, as in: “What numbers are we talking about in terms of income levels?”
“It’s not a numbers issue,” the Indian emeritus said. “I know you would expect a very wonky answer from me about the percentiles… .”
No, actually we’d expect a clumsy evasion, such as:
“When we strengthen education we make it possible for kids to go to college, then we strengthen America’s middle class, and that doesn’t mean a dollar figure.”
Will Your Honor please direct the witness to answer the question?
But of course she won’t. Because she knows taxes are going up on everybody who works. And the fake Indian is not going to allow herself to get saddled with a definition that can be thrown back against her later, as in, “Senator, I thought you said taxes were only going up on millionaires and billionaires.”
As Obama’s low-information voters have discovered over the last week, they are apparently now millionaires and billionaires, because their paychecks have shrunk, thanks to the Obama increases in the Social Security payroll tax.
Of course, this has happened before. Obama ran in 2008 promising no increase in taxes on anyone making under $250,000. What he forgot to add was, “unless you smoke cigarettes.”
There’s an old saying. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Or is that too complex a concept for Obama’s constituents to grasp?
It was a busy week for Granny Warren and her supporters. Some of her Kool-Aid drinking moonbats got into her biography on Wikipedia and erased all the evidence about her fake Indian heritage — her grandparents’ phony “elopement,” the plagiarized recipes, the fact that one of her ancestors actually shot an Indian, the “high cheekbones” argument, etc. etc. etc.
By week’s end, a watered-down version of the fake-Indian scandal was back on line, but odds are it won’t be there for long. Being a moonbat means you never have to worry about telling the truth. Just ask anybody from the jagged edge of the middle class.
Actually, the term “middle class” has become somewhat obsolete in the layabout Obama regime. There are only two classes now: the working and the nonworking classes. There are shades of gray at the margins — retired people can still be working class, as are the truly disabled. But by and large it’s very easy to tell which class you’re in.
If your first paycheck of 2013 was smaller than your last of 2012, you’re working class. If your first welfare check of 2013 was the same as your last of 2012, you’re nonworking class — a Democrat, in other words.
Meanwhile, Sharman wasn’t giving up.
“The middle class,” she said, “is by definition a group of people in a certain income level.”
“No,” said the fake Indian, in an response amazing even for her. Then how do you define tax rates, if not by income? Sharman tried the old, “What if you make a million bucks a year?” question, but Granny still wasn’t biting.
“How about somebody who’s taught school for 10 years and takes off a year to go back to school and only has an income of $4,000?”
You’re about as likely to run into such a person as you are to run into a unicorn, or a 1/32nd Native-American professor at Harvard Law.
“It’s a whole lot of characteristics that define the middle class,” Granny said. Let the record show, she refused to list one of them.
“It sounds a little like a dodge,” Sharman Sacchetti said.
Actually it sounds a lot like a dodge. But you get what you vote for. As the old TV show used to say, “You asked for it!”