&gt; who incompetent advise her<p>That was very competent advice from the point of the company -- the HR person convinced her to sign the provision the company wanted her to sign, the company didn&#x27;t have to face a choice between agreeing to strike the non-compete or letting her walk, and there was no record of the misleading &quot;sales pitch&quot; the HR representative used (which might have served as evidence of conflicting intentions, allowing a court to strike the non-compete provision on the grounds that the parties didn&#x27;t intend it to be binding, or even caused future liability for the company if the HR rep&#x27;s description of the non-compete crossed the line between legal sales techniques &quot;oh that&#x27;s not important, you don&#x27;t want to think too hard about this part of the thing, everybody signs it&quot; and illegal fraudulent misrepresentation &quot;it says X&quot; when it clearly it actually says Y which is totally different).<p>It sounds like the HR person did their job competently.