Non-competes are unconstitutional.... (Score 1)

Well I can tell you from experience that Non-Competes even in Washington state are complete BULL, I had signed one with my 1st contracting company when I went to work for Microsoft, I found out that they were underpaying me by 30% told them about it they refused to give me a raise and so switched agency's, kept my same position made 30% more and told the old agency to bite me. They threatened to sue unless I paid them $10,000 to cancel the contract; I told them to bring it on. I have not heard anything since. I continued to work for MS in the shop.microsoft.com group (eStore) and left after 6 months. I now work for TI and have a similar contract with another agency. Basically the advice I got from a lawyer is that non-competes are unconstitutional.