Comments on: Knowing this One Truth Saved My Friend’s Job (and It Could Save Yours) https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html Everything to make HR better Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:41:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: c andrew https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html#comment-213480 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:41:34 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5121#comment-213480 Thanks for the update, Ginger.
I really like their sandwiches. (And the occasional Choc Chip Monster cookie.) But I couldn’t see my way clear to patronizing them under the circumstances.

Yum!

]]> By: Ginger https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html#comment-213462 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:54:48 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5121#comment-213462 In reply to c andrew.

A couple years ago Jimmy John’s was forced to stop requiring non-competes and enforcing those that were signed. Doesn’t mean you have to patronize them, just wanted to set the record straight.

]]> By: Evil HR Lady https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html#comment-213452 Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:47:52 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5121#comment-213452 In reply to c andrew.

Good for you!

]]> By: c andrew https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html#comment-213451 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:20:22 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5121#comment-213451 I was working at a retail computer store as the Technical Manager back in the 1980s when a new conglomerate bought our local store. They were out of Chicago.

The new manager shows up, walks into the tech area and asks me to his office. Ultimatum: You will sign a non-compete or you won’t have a job. (I was making 29K annual at the time.)

I said, “Sure! Just had a 0 to my annual salary and guarantee it for 4 years. I’ll sign your non-compete.”

“That’s unreasonable!”

“So is your demand.”

“You won’t have a job by end of day.”

“I can walk out that door and have 4 job offers in the next 4 hours. But that’s kind of the point, isn’t it. You want to make me move out of state if I don’t like your treatment of me, and judging from our first meeting, I’m not gonna like your treatment of me…”

None of the techs signed. I went to competitor about 6 months later because, yeah, they were flat-out, bad people to work with.

One reason I won’t patronize Jimmy John’s is because they make their drivers sign non-competes.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html#comment-213450 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:12:31 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5121#comment-213450 Unfortunately, this scheme occurs more often than made public. Thanks for the advice about not signing without consulting a lawyer. A few of the companies here in the USA, tired to do this when they laid off their employees as part of their bankruptcy procedures, trying to claim money for the cost of the bankruptcy.

]]> By: Eric https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/02/knowing-this-one-truth-saved-my-friends-job-and-it-could-save-yours.html#comment-213446 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 18:04:50 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5121#comment-213446 I want to demote that boss to an intern.

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