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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
Hello and thank you for taking the time to look over my current situation and thank you in advance for any response you could provide.
I believe I am going to get into some legal battles with my current employer due the fact that I am going to be leaving them to go work for a Manufacturer that attempted to do business with my current company but they decided not to do business with them and to go with another Manufacturer. I've worked here for 2 years and I have already put in my resignation letter and accepted the offer to the manufacturer. I'm going over my employee agreement and there are some pretty bold wordings in it that would assume that they are forcing me to not work for any competitor or similar business for 5 years and within a 10 mile radius. The company I work for now is a prepaid wireless wholesale distributor that distributes everything from sim cards to cell phone accessories. They also happen to sell devices to independent wireless retailers and distributors across the country. They are not a Manufacturer.
The company I am going to work for is a manufacturer of their own wireless handsets and are publicly traded and my role will be director of sales and will be trying to penetrate the prepaid wireless industry across the country There is def going to be overlap of customers because my current company has a very big customer base and the new company I am going to work for will eventually end up selling to some of their customers since they all happen to fall in the same pie. Throughout my tenure I have managed to build some very strong relationships in the industry and I plan on doing business with them. I plan on trying to find independent retailers and distributors to sell my product as well because thats the space we work in.
My CEO of my current employer has verbally threatened to sue me for lost wages if I solicit any of his customers. Do I have any protection towards this since I will be going to be working for a Manufacturer of a handset and not the same business as he is in which is a distributor of all products including handsets? If I approach him and ask him to do business with my company and he declines shouldn't I have the right to try and sell my product that they don't sell to whomever I choose?
There a lot of other things that come in to play on why I even decided to accept any offers and thats because of hostile work environments and broken promises but thats besides the fact. I want to move on as smoothly as possible and I know its going to get dirty and dont know how much protection I have. I also heard that in the state of CA that the non-compete rule does not apply but not sure how much that could impact the situation of soliciting customers.
I feel like my current company is trying to hand cuff me from what I know best and it's very unfair.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Hello and thank you for taking the time to look over my current situation and thank you in advance for any response you could provide.
I believe I am going to get into some legal battles with my current employer due the fact that I am going to be leaving them to go work for a Manufacturer that attempted to do business with my current company but they decided not to do business with them and to go with another Manufacturer. I've worked here for 2 years and I have already put in my resignation letter and accepted the offer to the manufacturer. I'm going over my employee agreement and there are some pretty bold wordings in it that would assume that they are forcing me to not work for any competitor or similar business for 5 years and within a 10 mile radius. The company I work for now is a prepaid wireless wholesale distributor that distributes everything from sim cards to cell phone accessories. They also happen to sell devices to independent wireless retailers and distributors across the country. They are not a Manufacturer.
The company I am going to work for is a manufacturer of their own wireless handsets and are publicly traded and my role will be director of sales and will be trying to penetrate the prepaid wireless industry across the country There is def going to be overlap of customers because my current company has a very big customer base and the new company I am going to work for will eventually end up selling to some of their customers since they all happen to fall in the same pie. Throughout my tenure I have managed to build some very strong relationships in the industry and I plan on doing business with them. I plan on trying to find independent retailers and distributors to sell my product as well because thats the space we work in.
My CEO of my current employer has verbally threatened to sue me for lost wages if I solicit any of his customers. Do I have any protection towards this since I will be going to be working for a Manufacturer of a handset and not the same business as he is in which is a distributor of all products including handsets? If I approach him and ask him to do business with my company and he declines shouldn't I have the right to try and sell my product that they don't sell to whomever I choose?
There a lot of other things that come in to play on why I even decided to accept any offers and thats because of hostile work environments and broken promises but thats besides the fact. I want to move on as smoothly as possible and I know its going to get dirty and dont know how much protection I have. I also heard that in the state of CA that the non-compete rule does not apply but not sure how much that could impact the situation of soliciting customers.
I feel like my current company is trying to hand cuff me from what I know best and it's very unfair.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!