[Rick Lee]

Depends on how much you want this job. I started a thread on this last year and I think the consensus was that no court will bother to enforce a non-compete if you've been laid off or fired, but might if you've left on your own freewill. The joke around my company is that if you go to work for a related business, you have to become a customer of our company. It happens regularly too. But I've never heard of anyone who got canned then going to work for a competitor.