Some sales roles
by ndtnguy (2024-04-24 09:53:25)

In reply to: Other than a non-compete imposed on the business owner  posted by mwalsh

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Most of the cases I have seen in which exiting employees were able to destroy their former employers more or less overnight (which strikes me as the universe in which noncompetes are salutary) fall into two categories:

1. Senior managers or owners capable of replicating the entire operation and effectively transferring the former business en masse, either because of their own client relationships or because of their relationships with other key employees, and

2. Key client-facing individuals in fields where their expertise or relationships drive client loyalty.

Say your job is wholesaling cardboard. That's a commodity, so people are going to buy it based on (1) price, (2) logistical efficiency, and (3) relationships. If everyone in your region knows you a the guy who gets them their cardboard on time, it doesn't take much for you to put a new company name and phone number on your POs and walk out the door with all of that business.

Now, it's totally different if, say, you just deliver the cardboard and nobody really cares who you are.

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