the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth

[Peter Corlett]

On 7 Aug 2006, at 10:03, Adrian Howard wrote:
[...]
> Actally - I tell a lie - I did leave a non-compete clause in a  
> contract once because it was so amusing. It was something like "you  
> won't work in the same business within 45miles of our registered  
> offices within six months of leaving the organisation".

Something with that wide a scope is completely unenforcable though, no?

Mine's basically "you won't poach our staff", but the only poaching  
of them I'd want to do is in boiling oil.