Camp Bow Wow

The secret is in the scooping!

They can go work at camp Meow just down the road though.

The sad truth is, D.B.W. would probably find some wacky judge who would rule in their favor if the non-compete clause were taken to litigation.

Even in the high-tech world, non-compete clauses are generally not worth the paper they're printed on. It's only if the company you're leaving is willing to take the matter to court, that it has any relevance.

I really can't imagine camp bow wow's owners caring enough; and if they did take you to court, they would probably have to demonstrate that you deliberately and knowingly conveyed "trade secrets", and that doing so caused financial harm to the owners.

Of course this could be covering up a lot of potential scandals. After all, the clientele already can't talk about what goes on in Camp Bow Wow.

A local frachise advertises on the radio station I listen to. I thought it was just here I didn't know it was a large company. I guess what happens at Camp Bow Wow stays Camp Bow Wow Vegas for doggies.

Non-compete agreement are justified by saying they're about trade secrets.

It's actually to prevent other services from poaching their staff. There's a certain amount of weeding out (some people, even if they like dogs, can't stand the smell of dog poop and sick when it's all day long), and yes, there actually is a learning curve (you get faster and better at any routine task when you do it every day).

Many times, you could give someone a dollar an hour more if you hadn't paid them full wages for months before they began to pull their weight.

Courts do enforce such agreements. I ran into it in a city where the janitorial services all used them. There was a long history of lawsuits not only against ex-employees but also against the new employers because they were complicit in the violation of a civil agreement. Our company lawyer against my hiring one guy as a janitor because he'd worked for one of those services, and it'd be opening a can of worms.

I work for a janitorial service that pulls that crap on their supervisors, but not their employees. One of my former supervisors still managed to get a similar position with another company though, because our home office is over 50 miles from her new job.

It's also to prevent an employee from leaving and starting their own pet sitting service and poaching clients from Camp Bow Wow