Company Tries to Intimidate Ex-Employee Into Signing Non-Compete Agreement a Month After Firing Them

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if a former boss tries to scare you into signing something after you've already stopped working for them, DO. NOT. SIGN. ANYTHING. Don't even sign a damn birthday card. You owe them nothing, and they probably don't even have any leverage against you. 

u/WhitePinoy recently posted to r/antiwork seeking advice after their former employer demanded that they sign a non-compete agreement a month after firing them. OP's reason for getting sacked in the first place is pretty shady in itself. Now their ex-employer is basically trying to put them out of work. Keep scrolling for the whole story.

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  • “My former employer is forcing me to sign a non-compete clause, after I found a new job in a month after they fired me?” Posted by u/WhitePinoy

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    Font - To make a long story short, my former employer placed me on a PIP, a month after I finished radiation therapy. For the two months I was on the PIP, I learned how mismanaged my department was, and I was let go a week earlier than expected.
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    Font - As soon as I was fired, I went on an aggressive (and depressing) job hunt, and was interviewed by three companies. The company that picked me, hired me in less than a week after the interview. They are employee owned, give bonuses every month, and make you work from home twice a week, and have a day off every other week.
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    Font - Well just this Sunday morning, I get an email from the in-house hiring manager for my former employer. They told me that I need to sign a contract agreeing that I would not accept employment from another company that is in direct competition with them for the next 3 years. They told me that I have until next Friday to send the documents back with my signature, or serious litigious consequences will follow.
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    Font - What should I do? It's been more than a month since they let me go and I have already been accepted into a company that does exactly the same type of work that they do. It seems like they want to make me unemployed or make it difficult for me to find work elsewhere. I am very new to my industry and I only recently got a promotion. I honestly don't need any of this stress. What should I do? 10.2k Д 3054 ↑ Share
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    Font - ReaverRogue 2d I promise you, there's nothing they can do. They can't enforce a non-compete after the fact and without a signature. Think it through logically. They're just trying to scare you into it, but for the most part non-competes are very hard if not impossible to enforce anyway. They're too broad in scope. Ignore them. Absolutely nothing will come of it. ↑ 9.3k ...
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    "Three years is a ridiculous term. And they aren't offering OP any compensation, so there's no possibility of a valid contract." —u/Ella0508

    "I'd say 3 annual year incomes would a good compensation on that" —u/Ankoor37

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    Rectangle - DisposableMiner 2d Don't f king sign it. They have no leverage at all. Firing you after medical leave is already borderline illegal. Simply do not respond to them at all. ↑ 12.1k
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    "Screenshot the email and anything you get from the old company. You really should see a labor lawyer. That form is laughable. They fired you .. YOU have NO reason to sign Anything for them. That BS about litigious consequences is there to scare you. They have NO leverage. But YOU DO. Firing someone after a medical leave is not legal. DisposableMiner is right. But you might well have a lawsuit for the firing, as well as harassment." —u/NefariousnessSweet70

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    Font - CFD Feisty-Violinist1093 2d Ignore them completely. You no longer have an employer / employee relationship with them, and they cannot compel you to do anything. No response is the best response. ... ↑ 930
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    Font - palpatineforever 2d lol, HR fed up. don't sign it. even if you had signed one they would struggle to enforce it given they were the ones who chose to let you go. in many places non competes are hard to enforce at the best of times unless someone is obviously poached. best thing about this. HR just created a paper trail admitting you never signed a non compete. before a judge, your honour as clearly shown in the email written by shit company dated 17/09/23 in their own words I have never a
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