[aMorePerfectUnion]

Many were unreasonable.

I sold a biz and the non-compete they initially asked me to sign included all North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. I laughed and said no.

[Myrddin]

I built a lot of very specialized capability for PacBell during the years I worked there. They attempted to get me to sign away my rights (and those of my heirs/assigns) in perpetuity to any intellectual property that I had generated. Really? The "agreement" kept landing in the shredder. After 5 weeks, I received a notice from an external legal firm stating that PacBell had no right to ask for such an agreement. The "agreement" stopped being sent to me after that point.

My current employer asked for a disclosure of any current work that I wanted excluded from their purview as well as an "at will" employment agreement. No problem. I had a few specialized embedded systems that were developed for local hospitals that were explicitly excluded. I'm approaching 33 years with the current employer. I'll probably die before I retire.

[lastchance]

How in the world did they forget to include the South China Sea?

[suthener]

“I sold a biz and the non-compete they initially asked me to sign included all North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. I laughed and said no.”

Woah, hold on there. You mean you just made the personal decision that accepting the deal and signing the non-compete was not in your best interest? Whoever heard of that? If people can just willy nilly make their own decisions, what’s the government supposed to do? (Rhetorical question)