DMCz asked:
I was recently employed by a video rental store that does not offer online mail rentals, and in some of the paperwork that I signed, it said that I would not work for any other competitor while I was employed with them or one year after leaving that company. This job requires actually being in the store and renting out movies to customers. Technically I haven’t started training yet.
I was recently employed by a video rental store that does not offer online mail rentals, and in some of the paperwork that I signed, it said that I would not work for any other competitor while I was employed with them or one year after leaving that company. This job requires actually being in the store and renting out movies to customers. Technically I haven’t started training yet.
Anyway, since I’ve been looking for work, I’ve applied at many different places. A temp agency just found me a job to work in a warehouse for an online movie rental company. They only deal in online mail movie rentals and have no stores for customers to come by and rent movies like the place I am currently employed at. At this job I would only be receiving returned rentals through the mail and shipping off new rentals. Technically I would be employed by the temp agency until and if this company decides to hire me, since I am labelled temp-to-hire.
These two companies are in the same industry—Any problems?
Though both businesses deal with movies, they are technically different in the way they do their business.. The first one deals directly with customers in a store, say like a local video store, while the second one is like Netflix. I really don’t see any competition here, but to be safe, you could always ask the video rental store to see if there would be a problem by you working at the other company. That would seem the simplest way to solve your question.