Actually, I wanted to add too, that some of this stuff I get. Like, I understand a company firing you if you talk shit about them on Facebook. One of my prior jobs was hearing cases for the unemployment system in my state. Basically I'd talk to both sides, try to figure out why the person quit or was fired, and then decide whether they should get unemployment based on that. We of course never dealt with non-compete clauses, since that was a private issue. Interestingly, every once in a blue moon we would see an employment contract requiring that the employee agree not to file for unemployment. This is illegal in my state (and it's actually a misdemeanor for the employer), so needless to say those didn't get the employer anywhere. But I do wonder how many people didn't apply for benefits at all because of one of those.