Whitney went to eat lunch with Jonathan, she had no idea that her plan to resolve the issues was only giving Samantha the opportunity to brag. She even indirectly mentioned that she had told her father about Whitney.
She was not foolish enough to say that she helped Whitney secur her job, after allz even as the daughter of the human resources director she knew that her father could not get her a job to work with the president. But the course mate fid not understand all this
Since Whitney also thought that she had the connection to get a job at Smart cooperation they thought that she must have played a role for Whitney to get a job.
Some of the female student also began to feel that Whitney was ungrateful. She did not mention the help that she recive from Samantha.