Brain357
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- Mar 30, 2013
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They are everywhere now. And they are anti capitalism. And you support anti capitalism obviously.Yes but when they all require it you either work or don't. They are not capitalism. Do you understand the importance of competition in capitalism?It's not an option, the employer makes you do it. And these make it so essentially you can't take advantage of the benefits of capitalism.No I mean deals like Foxconn where corps and government come together to give the company 4.1 billion in tax payer dollars. Not free market capitalism.
Except when the corps have monopolies and collusion on their side. Did you bother to read my links? Employees are forced to sign non-competes which are completely against free market capitalism.
So your claims would be true with free market capitalism, but not what we have. You live in a fairy tale it seems.
It's not a free market capitalistic society, it's a regulated capitalist society. A free market means no rules or regulation.
It's not uncommon for employees to sign a contract that says they can't go work for a competitor for X amount of years. You agree to that when you first join the company. It's an option. It's quite common in big business right down to beauty salons where you must work outside X amount of miles from your previous employer. That's to insure you're not taking customers from that place of business when you leave. In some business positions, you develop a personal relationship with a customer along with a professional one.
So you see your beliefs are only true in your fairy tale land.
It is an option. No employer can make you do anything. It's decided as a condition of the job. If you don't want to sign any agreement, then take a job with another company.
In our company my employer promotes from within. We move our straight truck drivers into tractor-trailers instead of hiring outsiders. It gives my employer an advantage because our straight truck drivers already know the system, our customers, and already familiar with the places they will be going. He sends those drivers out with one of our tractor-trailer drivers for training after hours and on Saturdays. When the straight truck driver has enough experience, he and our tractor-trailer driver goes to the DMV for the test.
After they are licensed they continue doing the same job they always have. We use them as spares for when we take time off for illness or vacations, so they continue making the same money unless they are driving the tractor-trailer.
My employer makes them sign a three year contract in exchange for the training and licensing. After that three years, they are free to work for anybody they want including our competitors. Now if my employer didn't do that, they could use the license to start driving a tractor-trailer with another company right away, and the time my employer paid the trainer, the fuel, the wear and tear on the vehicle would be all for nothing. We wouldn't have a backup driver and the newly licensed driver would be making more money somewhere else, plus we would lose an employee at the same time.
My employer only offers this opportunity and it's not mandated. It's purely optional. If you decline the offer, no hard feelings. You keep your job, continue doing what you always did. No harm done.
Most places don't do that, so it's not a matter of not being able to work for anybody. You can always find plenty of places with non-conditional employment.
It's the same way unions used to operate before Right-To-Work became a new law in some states. If you wanted to work at company X, you had to join the union. If you didn't want to join the union, they couldn't offer you the job. You simply went to work someplace else if that was a problem with you. But if you wanted that job at company X, the condition was you had to join the union and stay there.
Perspective | Even janitors have noncompetes now. Nobody is safe.