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    Ry-bones, FiST pilotMonique Judge
    7/21/17 7:40am

    I didn’t know Deray had a podcast. I’ll have to check it out since...hold up. The Black One is back.

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      CousinPamRy-bones, FiST pilot
      7/21/17 8:40am

      His podcast is great. It’s part of the Crooked Media group of podcasts. In that group I listen to his, Pod Save America, and Lovett or Leave It. There’s at least one more, Pod Save the World.

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      AveryLupenCousinPam
      7/21/17 9:57am

      The last one is “And Friends Like These,” with Ana Marie Cox.

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    MonkeewonMonique Judge
    7/21/17 8:16am

    $165,000 per year...for an HR position in the public school system. I’m sure any teacher in the system would’ve taken that job for life.

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      StartingOverAgainMonkeewon
      7/21/17 10:53am

      For the head of HR of a company with a few thousand employees (which is what I would guess is the number of people dealt with in total by the Baltimore public school system), that’s not that insane of a salary.

      Granted, to get to that level, you also typically have decades of experience doing that kind of work, putting you in higher demand, which means if you want to find said people with decades of experience, you’ve got to pay up.

      A teacher might be smart enough to learn all of that, but the problem is there is a vast body of knowledge and also a lot to be said for having an intuitive feel for how to handle a myriad of situations that HR execs have to handle that you can’t just throw someone in to with no experience.

      Which is why the move was a bit of a headscratcher in the first place. I’m sure McKesson had lots of valuable contributions to the overall kitty, he’s clearly a bright, thoughtful dude, but an HR exec having to burn midnight oil to solve a “payroll” issue is the sort of thing that an actual HR exec with decades of experience would likely never be reduced to.

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      MonkeewonStartingOverAgain
      7/21/17 1:38pm

      It is, and was, a total headscratcher. Guess crowd-sourcing fundraising online for activism is more “rewarding” than actually improving the educational system internally, and not as glorious has his “celebrity hire” once was. No one wants to do the dirty work, they just want it fixed.

      It’s a little sad that someone with a voice decides he gave it a year and “whelp time to move on.”

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