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Did you sign Google’s noncompete? Good, you’re fired
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A recently departed DoubleClicker tells us that Google managers asked employees at the online ad company it acquired last month to sign one-year noncompete agreements. Most agreed, thinking that it would spare their jobs — but then layoffs came a week later.
These noncompete agreements very likely cannot be enforced, but there’ll be a few lawyers making a lot of money over it.
If you want to know where a company is going, look at the “mission statement” or “motto”, and assume that within five years, the company will be the exact opposite. The Google motto was “Don’t do evil” a few years ago, but “evil” sure is where they’re heading…
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