[genericlogic]

While I'm happy to see some sensible restraints come to noncompetes I'm sad that it wasn't taken further. I actually applied, interviewed and got a job offer to a great little startup in Boston. After all was said and done they slipped in that I had to sign a noncompete.

This noncompete was incredibly broad. It could have applied to nearly any future employer. I worked with my lawyer and asked for some further limiting language but everything I asked for was rejected by HR.

I stuck to my guns and said that I could not sign this. The job was a perfect fit for me. I still wonder what I could have done there.

[ghaff]

That's too bad. My understanding is that it's mostly the big companies who pushed the hardest against non-compete reform. EMC was particularly prominent.

I actually had to sign an EMC non-compete when the company I was at was acquired a number of years back. Fortunately, the terms didn't seem likely to affect me (and they didn't).