Maybe Lambda stinks but it would seem she chose to violate the agreement.
Maybe she was concerned about what she experienced later, but how much does someone care about a topic when they choose to make money by not talking about it....
People sign things without looking at them, especially when in desperate situations. Why adopt a stance that further weakens the position of the poor and unconnected, are the rich and connect not powerful enough already? Do we really need to allow "don't tell the truth" contracts to stand?
Lambda has been documented screwing people over. Of course they'd screw over their own employees. It's their modus operandi.
Lots of people immediately want to believe the pregnant woman is the good guy even though she broke a contract she legally signed and they know no other details ... but it's easy to hate on the company ... why is that?
People aren't sticking up for Lambda, they are sticking up for the basic concept of you are an adult... you signed a legal contract... don't come crying if you break it and there are consequences.
Hmmm, I thought that if you sign an agreement... it does not matter whether you "mean it" or not. You signed it, so it has to have some meaning.
Or, can you back out of a signed agreement by saying "Oh, I did not mean it"?
Not an expert, but seems dubious/shady.
Your honour you see I signed it so I could trick them! It was super sneaky - anyway so since I signed it left handed I don't have to honour it right?
How is that relevant here? She talked about it. Why would she violate an agreement and expose herself to legal liability if she didn't care?
Because she thought she could do it anonymously and keep the money and run? Not rocket science.
The point OP was making was that if she felt strongly about speaking out she shouldn't have signed.... and if she did sign for money to not talk she must not have felt that strongly about it.
You can argue specifically that she shouldn't have taken the money (I'll agree to disagree on that one) but the basic assertion here makes no sense. The desire for anonymity makes it clear that the violation of the agreement was not some sort of self-serving attempt to have it both ways.
People who have a bone to pick sometimes want to slam a spot just for the sake of slamming them if they felt burnt - rightly or wrongly.
I assert she didn't care because if a person truly had principles they wouldn't take hush money ... they would just speak their mind. If you take hush money, and then try to reneg on the agreement you instantly become untrustworthy in my books.
She did it anon because she thought she would have gotten away with slinging mud, when she got caught she came out to the public and tries to play a sympathy card about how she was 5 months pregnant.
Sorry this is case of someone trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Tons of bad anonymous reviews on glassdoor from people who got fired. I wrote one myself :D . Money is not the only benefit for bad mouthing your old employer
She didn't choose to make money by not talking about it. She took the money, then talked about it.
It's one way of fighting back in a situation where one party is financially superior to the other.
Legally, Lambda School probably has a good case for getting the money back, but it might be unwise for them to pursue it.