Monday, November 25, 2019

#DPride

If you recall last year the district added a "Communications Director" position.  The first thing I noticed was the hi-jack the USDD twitter account that was previously only used for school cancelation notification.  That inappropriately morphed into this chest beating #DPride shit.

So a large portion of this position is self promotion on social media. 


In my entire life I have never worn anything that had any type of advertisement on it.  I never understood the logic of paying sometimes top dollar for some name brand shirt or whatever so that you can be their human billboard.  Nope, not me.

And I certainly am not doing that with good old De Pere Schools.  So all that self promoting crap that we get this time of the year for education week promptly goes in the trash.  Back when I started we actually got more useful gifts.  Like a frozen turkey.  Or a gift card for one / or to be used at any De Pere business.

In all honesty working for De Pere is embarrassing.  More-so when someone asks what they pay.  So I usually tell everyone I am a greeting card salesman (Get Smart reference).

In case you are wondering, yes I will eventually inquire what this communication position pays.  Seems to me if you have money for that, and to give a replacement business manager a 5.7% increase a few years ago.... well you should be at least able to give a non selfish gift instead of this chest beating shit.