I agree with you; people need to take this stuff seriously!<p>Just after I started university in Ontario I turned down an internship in a R&amp;D department of a company in Lichtenstein. I was so excited when I got the offer and then so disheartened by the non-compete and non-disclosure agreements.<p>There was definitely a little bit of meaning <i>lost in translation</i> and essentially was scoped to cover the industry material and didn&#x27;t specify a termination date.<p>While I didn&#x27;t think they&#x27;d be enforceable I knew they didn&#x27;t need to be to become burdensome. What&#x27;s interesting to me is clearly it took their employer time to find out about the prior agreements. Either this was something missed during the hiring process or something the candidate chose not to reveal.<p>Either way I fully understand why they were let go. If you&#x27;re a business you don&#x27;t want to invest in someone that a competitor can apply leverage on and has the legal grounds to do so, which would likely result in them quitting.