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by GlideCleanser 3722 days ago
> you can simply NOT tell your old employer that you got a new job.

You also have to avoid:

1) Telling your old co-workers

2) Mentioning or updating anything on social media. Even if you're not "friends" with old co-workers on e.g. Facebook, that information could still be leaked.

3) Giving any sort of talk where your employment might be leaked

4) Being at an industry event where your employment might be leaked

5) Being named on the company site, and thus your name showing up on a simple google search.

If your old employer is vindictive (which could be one reason you left), there are lots and lots of ways for them to find out where their former employee went to.

Being subtle will probably only keep your employment status hidden with the sorts of employers who aren't really making broad non-compete clauses to begin with (i.e. employers who don't care).

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Whenever anyone at all asks you where you work, you just be evasive.

It doesn't matter about any of those, if just as a policy, whenever anyone at all asks where you work, you don't tell them.

Or you just talk in broad strokes/industry without specifically mentioning the name, and if your old employer "finds out" that you have another job, they still can't do anything because they don't know the specific employer.

> Whenever anyone at all asks you where you work, you just be evasive.

That's a pretty mentally taxing adjustment for most people to make.

It's also incredibly awkward when engaging in small talk with new people. Being evasive about answering where you work will lead to many presumptions (e.g. that you work for a 3 letter agency), few of which are very conducive to continuing a conversation.

Similarly I could just lie about where I work, but I think you can probably see how that's similarly taxing to do continuously.

Are you trolling? How is "never telling anyone where you work out of fear of a lawsuit" the smart way to do anything?
"Where do you work?"

"I'm a web developer, I work at a small startup! I do X, Y, and Z"

Not that hard... especially since no one has ever heard of whatever small company you work at anyway.... It's really not weird.