[Nfb-science] Advice-legal issue with previous employer

[David Andrews]

I would advise you to talk to an attorney.  It is 
impossible for any of us to say anything because 
some of this is by implication, and we don't know 
what the agreement was, or why you left, or anything.

Non-compete agreements are pretty common, from 
what I understand -- but they don't always stand 
up, particularly if you have a more difficult 
situation -- like being blind.  They deny you your livelihood.

Dave

At 12:59 PM 10/22/2017, you wrote:
>Dear fellow engineers and scientists, I left 
>employment with the solar company in the greater 
>Austin area a few months go I left employment 
>with a solar company in the greater Austin area 
>a few months ago. I received a text message from 
>my previous employer this past week on Thursday 
>A copy of which is below. Beyond issues with a 
>noncompete clause, towards the latter half of 
>the long message there are references to issues 
>surrounding my blindness. Any advice you may 
>have or resources you can point me to that may 
>help me deal with this matter would be greatly 
>appreciated! Begin copy of text message received 
>October 19 2017 at 10:52 AM: Hi Jennifer, I saw 
>you at the Austin Energy Contractor's meeting 
>today.  If you are coming to hang out, I suppose 
>that's fine. But if you were attending the 
>contractor's meeting with the intention of 
>getting another job and solar in this area, that 
>is absolutely not acceptable.  And this is your 
>second notification. I will remind you that you 
>signed an iron clad non-compete with our 
>company.  Under no circumstances can you enter 
>into competition with us in any way.  As I have 
>done my best to explain to you, we invested 
>quite a lot in you.  You had no sales experience 
>when we took you on.  And eventhough you were 
>competent on the technical aspects of solar, you 
>had very little understanding of the business 
>end.  We gave you a lot of training and built 
>you up essentially from ground zero.  I was 
>happy to build you up, but it is not okay to 
>take all this training and help we gave you to 
>further your career with another solar company 
>to our detriment.  We also really went above and 
>beyond to help you by putting together your 
>proposals, solar calculator, etc and driving you 
>back and forth to your appts and canvassing 
>locations.  That cost us a lot of time and a lot 
>of money and lost productivity in having to take 
>myself and other reps out of production to help 
>you. You also called and cancelled several of 
>our appts and told them not to go solar with us, 
>essentially sabotaging us with those jobs and 
>costing us thousands of dollars in lost 
>profits.  This is also in direct violation to 
>your Employment Agreement with 2nd Energy. I 
>sincerely wish you the best.  But if you do 
>enter into competition with us I will not 
>hesitate to take legal action.  I wish you well 
>in your future endeavors, as long as they do not 
>conflict with our interests or the Employment 
>Agreement signed by you. -Jennifer 😎❤☀ 
>Mobile: 512-736-0790 
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