[cronix]

That is the first thing I redline in any potential contract. I've never had serious push back beyond, "oh, um, that's just boilerplate from our legal team. You're the first person who has said anything."

It's basically along the lines of, "we know you have talent in x niche, which is why we are hiring you. However, you will no longer be allowed to work in that niche if we part ways for whatever reason" Yeah, ok.

[hinkley]

In the early days of the dotcom era someone thought "internet technology" was a niche and tried to make me sign an NC, after I moved to take the job.

I said "I'm not signing this", they did the old it's not a big deal thing and I said if it's not a big deal you can change it.

In theory he was supposed to give me a reworded NC, but he promptly forgot it. Un/fortunately for him they didn't have anything that I would compete with.