Posted on 03/01/2014 2:37:03 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Call it the biggest Facebook mistake ever. A daughters snarky status update has cost her father the $80,000 settlement he won in an age-discrimination lawsuit.
According to the Miami Herald, Patrick Snay, 69, was the headmaster at Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami for several years, but in 2010, the school didnt renew his contract. Snay sued his former employer for age discrimination and won a settlement of $80,000 in November 2011. The agreement contained a standard confidentiality clause, prohibiting Snay or the school from talking about the case.
However, Snays daughter, Dana, now at Boston College and a part-time Starbucks barista, couldnt resist bragging about the case on Facebook. Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver, she wrote. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.
Dana has 1,200 Facebook friends, many of whom are current and former Gulliver students, and news of the post made its way back to the schools lawyers, who appealed the verdict. The Third District Court of Appeal tossed out the $80,000 settlement earlier this week. Snay violated the agreement by doing exactly what he had promised not to do, Judge Linda Ann Wells wrote. His daughter then did precisely what the confidentiality agreement was designed to prevent.
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For the daughter to know the settlement, her father had to have disclosed it.
But then, it's only money.
So... Dad is 69?
His dip wad daughter graduated Gulliver in 2010, which puts her at... 20ish.
Putting two and two together, one might discern that dad was 47 when she was born, an age perhaps more typical of a second marriage.
Regardless, she clearly missed out on some important life lessons.
...she wrote. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.
At least Patrick Snay can find comfort in the knowledge that he raised such a classy little girl.
While it does not say so directly, it sure sounds like Dana was a Gulliver student herself.
So now millions of people see what the product of a Gulliver education is: Dana Loudmouth. Great advertising!
Perhaps the school would've been better off just letting it slide...
Ok...saying you aren’t allowed to speak to your blood relatives about the lawsuit I’m pretty sure is still asinine....
Of course....”the law is an ass”
I personally think this is setting a very dangerous legal precedent....
That you cannot discuss your legal problems with your children.
Well played....(golf clap for Bill)
Guess who's not going to Europe this summer?
IT SUCKS to be stupid.
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