BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Having a boastful daughter

The former head of a private preparatory school in Miami, Florida is out an US$80,000 discrimination settlement after his daughter boasted about it on Facebook. Patrick Snay, the former head of Gulliver Preparatory School who is now 69, filed an age discrimination complaint when his 2010-11 contract wasn't renewed. In November 2011, the school and Snay came to an agreement in which Snay would be paid $10,000 in back pay, and an $80,000 settlement. Gulliver Schools also agreed to cut Snay's attorneys a check for $60,000. But before the ink could dry on the deal, Snay's daughter took to Facebook, boasting, "Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT." So where did Snay go wrong? A confidentiality agreement stated that neither Snay nor his wife could speak about the settlement to anyone except for his attorneys and other professional advisers. Snay violated the agreement by doing exactly what he had promised not to do. His daughter then did precisely what the confidentiality agreement was designed to prevent, advertising to the Gulliver community that Snay had been successful in his age discrimination and retaliation case against the school. She shouldn't have posted that on Facebook, but then again, he shouldn't have told her about the judgement. He could've told me instead - I would've shown more restraint instead of posting SUCK IT on Facebook.