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DoubleClickers Don’t Worry!

April 11, 2008

First, I am not a lawyer and I don’t play one on TV. Valleywag recently reported that Doubleclickers got screwed by Google when they asked them to sign non-competes and then terminated them a week later. Do no evil, eh? Anyway, Valleywag reported that these Doubleclickers are being ‘forced to find jobs outside their industry’. This isn’t true.

First, the agreement is overly broad and wouldn’t be enforceable in most states (including Texas). Second, Google is so big and broad itself that it would be VERY hard to find a company that wasn’t “a client or customer within the last twelve months of my employment with the Company.” Under this clause I suspect that Doubleclickers wouldn’t be able to work for Valleywag, much less an internet related company. So if I was ‘forced’ to sign such a contract a week before I was fired I would feel VERY comfortable ignoring it.

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Venture Capital 

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One Response to “DoubleClickers Don’t Worry!”

  1. Simon Owens Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    I can’t stand non-compete contracts that are forced upon lower-level employees. I worked for a newspaper-media company and luckily left it for another newspaper a few months before they sold to another company that forced all employees to sign non-compete contracts. If you want to make the owner you’re buying the company from sign one, fine. But forcing people who had no say (and probably no knowledge) of the sale? BS.

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