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Yeah, she could have. There's often social pressure to shut up, sign whatever they put in front of you, and take the severance money. It can be extremely diffi
by ohazi 7y ago
Yeah, she could have.
There's often social pressure to shut up, sign whatever they put in front of you, and take the severance money. It can be extremely difficult to go against this pressure, especially if you're not particularly well paid or powerful and the company is throwing resources at trying to fire you.
I'm not suggesting that she should or shouldn't have done what she did here, I'm just trying to push back against all the commenters blindly stating that "she violated her contract! what did she expect would happen?"
It's true, that's what happened, and that's what one should expect. But there's more nuance to how this interaction works, and I think it's a little disingenuous to leave it at just that, especially if you're going to bring morality into the picture.
- dominotw 7y ago> There's often social pressure to shut up, sign whatever they put in front of you For me it wasn't social pressure. Its 'at will' laws, employer can fire you for no reason whatsoever( unless its discrimination sort of deal), so ppl get what they can in form of severance.
- monkeywork 7y agoThe thing is legally it is just that black and white. If she wants sympathy or what have you that's fine but legally she has no leg to stand on - there is zero nuance there.
- senordevnyc 7y agoUntrue. Not all contracts are enforceable, even if one side accepted the consideration.
- monkeywork 7y agoAre you asserting that an NDA about limiting what you can talk about an organization is not enforceable? Because I think a 30 second google search will literally find you thousands of such NDAs being perfectly legit.
- senordevnyc 7y agoDid I say that? I’m responding to your assertion that this is a simple open and shut case legally and she has zero recourse. You don’t know the facts and I suspect you’re not attorney. You have no idea whether that’s true or not.
- monkeywork 7y agoThe Verve article which is heavily slanted in her favour makes it sure seem like it's an open and shut case. But ping me if she wins a legal case here and I'll gladly admit I was wrong.