21 Secrets From People Who Allegedly Signed NDAs But Can Now Speak Freely

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“I was hired into a law firm, and very shortly after onboarding, I was called into the partner’s office and told they had to let me go. I sort of laughed and said, ‘What for, I haven’t done anything yet?’ Well, a few years prior, I quit a particularly crappy job. Two years after quitting, I was subpoenaed to testify in someone else’s suit against this crappy employer. With almost no idea it was going to go this way, I ended up as a primary witness and testified for over three hours. I found out later that they were hit with a judgment of $10 million, which I was apparently pretty instrumental in making happen. Well, wouldn’t you know it, this employer was a client of the law firm.”

“I was told that my former employer said something to the effect of, ‘If you keep him, we will find a different firm to represent us and our million dollars in billables we send you every year.’ I was handed a pretty sizable check and told, ‘You never worked here,’ and overnight, all mention of me was scrubbed from the firm. There was an NDA, which amounted to ‘please don’t talk about this for a while.’ It really fucked up my life for a little bit.”

—u/FuriouslyListening