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Comment by AtlasBarfed | Hacker News Reader

Exactly you want to enforce rights after our term of employment is done

Then fucking pay me, naked capitalism

The whole point is to not pay you, to bind you at no cost. It’s formalized wage theft under the guise of corporate protection.

Anyway, this action will certainly help come Election Day. Maybe the Democrats will mention it during their convention, good PR for them.

Usually they do in fact pay, they want you to sign in exchange for severance pay. You don't want to sign, then don't. They can't force you.

Or you sign in advance, in exchange for what you feel is good enough compensation, so again, they are paying you.

That’s true for tech workers and other highly paid folk. That’s not at all “usually” true - I think you should go and look up all the cases of fast food workers, veterinarians, dentists etc that are slapped with non competes with no severance. They’re 100% abusive, and the majority

You can't "slap" someone with a non-compete. They have to agree to it.

What's making these people agree to the non-compete? What's stopping them from just walking away and not signing?

Not everyone can afford to just walk away more than once or twice.

And people may perceive the uncertain alternative of not getting that job right now as much worse than it would actually turn out, and agree to stuff they don't really want. Like the point made in this short comedy scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUafzOXHPE

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