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Max Peck wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:

Max Peck wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Do you honestly believe that they fired their social media director for posting calendar updates and not for bruising little Nathan's feelz?

Nice Rip move - change the goalposts. It's no longer that she got fired for doing her job, it's now that she got fired for the pussification of America.

That said, the information we have is that she was told to stop tweeting after her initial tweet from a school official publicly shaming a student. She defied that order and continued tweeting. Sometimes 2+2=4.

Would she have been fired if not for the initial tweet publicly shaming a student? Probably not, I'd guess, but we don't know for sure what would have happened if she hadn't first publicly shamed a student before defying orders from her management.

Who pissed in your cornflakes? Was it Russian hookers? Is there video? I mean, America may indeed be pussified (it would explain why Trump was able to grab it so adroitly), but my snark had nothing to do with anything other than my belief as to the reason she was fired.

My honest opinion is the reason she got fired was that she tweeted a "joke" that made fun of a student. The excuse for actually firing her was that after being told not to use Twitter, she went ahead and tweeted legitimate work-related information (which I presume is what a "social media director" is paid to do). YMMV. If you want to get into a pissing match over it, feel free to fill yer boots (or cereal bowl).

Sorry, but if you're going to bring the snark ("bruising little Nathan's feelz"), you need to learn to take some of it back.

So, are you saying that I crossed the line by being insensitive to little Nathan's feelz, or that I can't tell when someone is simply being snarky back at me (which is totally true, btw).

hepcat wrote:...or a few obnoxious confrontations on the lido deck, Captain Stubing.

Skinypupy wrote:

hepcat wrote:...or a few obnoxious confrontations on the lido deck, Captain Stubing.

Nah, the cruise is all metalheads. We're actually a pretty mellow bunch, overall.

noxiousdog wrote:She was not fired for the tweet. She was fired because, "Nash said Friday she was told not to tweet anymore after the initial attention, but she still had access to the FCPS Twitter feed. She continued to tweet calendar updates and things that had already been posted through Find Out First, a county schools news alert system."

On Jan. 5, as a storm approached, a student tweeted a message asking the district to “close school tammarow PLEASE.” Thinking she would combine pedagogy with a little levity, Nash tweeted from the district’s account, “but then how would you learn how to spell ‘tomorrow’?” and followed it with a smiley-face emoticon.

District officials did not smile back.

They asked her to delete the tweet and subsequent banter with students about possible school closures, and the student in question received an apology from the district’s communications director. On Jan. 13, Nash was fired.

It all set off an uproar on Twitter. Her original tweet had garnered more than 1,100 retweets and 1,400 likes. She became the subject of a hashtag, #KatiefromFCPS, and another one, #FreeKatie, after a report erroneously stated that she had lost access to the district’s Twitter feed before being fired, the Frederick News Post reported .

The spelling-challenged original poster weighed in, tweeting that he did not take it personally.

That did not matter. Nash’s tone and approach to social media were more laid back than her employer liked. The district’s communications director, Michael Doerrer, told the News Post that its Twitter feed is expected to convey “an FCPS voice,” and Superintendent Terry Alban told the paper that Board of Education members had expressed concerns.

Liz Barrett, the board’s vice president, said the tweet “was inappropriate and certainly created a lot of unpleasant responses in terms of other students piling on,” according to the paper.

Doerrer said that although he could not comment on personnel matters, “we do have guidelines related to social media, and our number one goal is to lift up and to encourage students.”

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Nash, who reportedly started at her position in November, had been on a probation period. Three days before the controversy, she had tweeted, “Love my job,” from her personal account after talking to sixth-graders about books that changed them.

Her offending tweet came as the district aimed to be more relaxed and conversational with students on social media, she told WHAG -TV.

“We had received feedback from some students in a focus group that our tweeting was a bit flat; they were looking for some more engagement,” she said. “I really took that to heart because I know that I am a little bit older and maybe not as hip as some of the students are.”

em2nought wrote:So how many brain aneurysms are gonna happen this Friday?

Moliere wrote:

Defiant wrote:Gigapixel: The Inauguration

It's scary how much you can zoom in. Who needs estimates, you could probably count the number of people using this photo.

Defiant wrote: