Communications have been kinda weird the past couple days--in this, that, and the other way––and then last night I got a condescending message from the Regional Marketing Director (whom I've never met) cautioning me about my FB postings.
But the MD gave me legal information that was wrong: that we had to have written permission to post people's photos on FB.
It was like a missive from someone who'd studied Marketing in the 1980s and hadn't revised since. Color Me Beautiful.
I found the correct information ("no, we don't even need verbal permission in many cases, but I always get it, because I'm nice that way"--took me 30 seconds to google it), and emailed it back...
Aaaaand... right on cue, up popped my little angry friend, Resentful Bear!
I was SUPER annoyed half the night about this incompetent Marketing Director, who, I fumed to myself, I'm sure is not making minimum wage like I am.
Hey, I should sew a Resentful Bear!
Brief break to report that yesterday I starting sewing the divination liver for Haruspex Sheep!
Here, at a nearby café >
Photo by Julia
The sheep's for a high school class on Roman Comedy, taught by a friend I met while studying Classics in college.
I decided to stitch modern symbols on it so the students could use it for their own divination purposes--
like those old Magic 8 balls.
(This liver here will be folded in half and stuffed.)
I could have asked the liver, "Should I send this snarky email to the Marketing Director?"
BIG SQUARE = Stop, no.
Luckily, I'd re-read my email before sending it and removed all snark.
(I think... It was hard to scrub all the lingering disdain stuck in the serifs of the "and's" and "the's".)
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It's interesting and helpful to try to observe myself as if I were a scientist:
I woke up thinking we should have a Social Media Policy.
I'm the one doing 95% of the FB postings this summer, but it'd be great if others posted too. Having legal, ethical, and even marketing guidelines spelled out makes sense.
I wrote to the Marketing Director and asked if such a thing existed or if was in the works (as in, Maybe YOU are writing it?).
Ha.
As if.
Haruspex Sheep says, hit the "Forward" button and MOVE ON!
But the MD gave me legal information that was wrong: that we had to have written permission to post people's photos on FB.
It was like a missive from someone who'd studied Marketing in the 1980s and hadn't revised since. Color Me Beautiful.
I found the correct information ("no, we don't even need verbal permission in many cases, but I always get it, because I'm nice that way"--took me 30 seconds to google it), and emailed it back...
Aaaaand... right on cue, up popped my little angry friend, Resentful Bear!
I was SUPER annoyed half the night about this incompetent Marketing Director, who, I fumed to myself, I'm sure is not making minimum wage like I am.
Hey, I should sew a Resentful Bear!
Brief break to report that yesterday I starting sewing the divination liver for Haruspex Sheep!Here, at a nearby café >
Photo by Julia
The sheep's for a high school class on Roman Comedy, taught by a friend I met while studying Classics in college.
I decided to stitch modern symbols on it so the students could use it for their own divination purposes--
like those old Magic 8 balls.
(This liver here will be folded in half and stuffed.)
I could have asked the liver, "Should I send this snarky email to the Marketing Director?"
BIG SQUARE = Stop, no.
Luckily, I'd re-read my email before sending it and removed all snark.
(I think... It was hard to scrub all the lingering disdain stuck in the serifs of the "and's" and "the's".)
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It's interesting and helpful to try to observe myself as if I were a scientist:
"Observe the adrenaline coursing through our subjects veins in response to a receiving misinformation from a marketing director--our subject is reacting as if she were under threat, and yet objectively there is none..."Silver Lining:
I woke up thinking we should have a Social Media Policy.
I'm the one doing 95% of the FB postings this summer, but it'd be great if others posted too. Having legal, ethical, and even marketing guidelines spelled out makes sense.
I wrote to the Marketing Director and asked if such a thing existed or if was in the works (as in, Maybe YOU are writing it?).
Ha.
As if.
Haruspex Sheep says, hit the "Forward" button and MOVE ON!
