[fabsroman]

Some companies require their employee to sign a Non-Compete Agreement and a Trade Secrets Agreement. That is to make sure that employees don't learn everything from the business owner and then open up their own place. Greed is the problem. The employer pays the employee a handsome salary, but the employee wants more and figures that since he is running the employers business he can do it elsewhere. At the same time, he does ahead and takes the customer database when he leaves and mails his new catalog to the older employer's customers. That is wrong and that is what the Non-Compete and Trade Secrets Agreement is there to prevent.