Someone above hit the nail on the head - there's already somebody slotted to fill this seat. One of the City Hall minions who is soon to be unemployed upon exipiry of the SamRand administration.
Probably, Frank, but my question is whether or not this person was already working at City Hall, and this is a great opportunity to boost a resume? Besides, correct me if this has changed, but didn't Sam Adams already work out a program where all CoP flacks laid off after he leaves still get six months' pay and benefits? I wonder if this is less an actual position and more an opportunity to get one more hipster a six-month vacation.
Someone above hit the nail on the head - there's already somebody slotted to fill this seat. One of the City Hall minions who is soon to be unemployed upon exipiry of the SamRand administration.
I would bet everything I have that it's someone hired from the mayor's staff. That's a no-brainer.
In a related story, check out any Sunday classified ad section for Help Wanted.
The first two pages are nearly exclusively government and pseudo government jobs and obviously the best paying. Schools, ESDs, universities, cities, and the semi public agencies that feed off them.
"The private sector is doing fine", some guy recently said.
I'm confused about the salary. It says 5k-6k, but does not mention if this is per annul, or, as Jack surmise, per month. Since when do job announcements not make a key detail like compensation clear?
Portland is subjecting all its thinking citizens to a slow, inexorable pogrom. Someone knocked on my door this evening. I was sitting next to the front door when they knocked. I called out "who is it?". "Oregon Action", came the reply. I try to stay nice, but at that moment, my response was like the highly irritated Englishman at home in in his castle. I yelled out: "Get out of here!", and the person complied. I felt kinda bad, because I know nothing about them, so I googled them. Of course, Oregon Action is a race hustling-guilt-tripping pump-up poison machine. I want to move, someplace post-racial. Barbados?
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Kiona, Lemberger 2014
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Kirkland, Côtes de Provence Rosé 2016
Cantele, Salice Salentino Reserva 2013
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Chehalem, Inox Chardonnay 2015
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Gascón, Colosal Red 2013
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L'Ecole No. 41, Merlot 2013
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Wraith, Cabernet, Eidolon Estate 2012
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Tomassi, Valpolicella, Rafaél, 2014
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Helix, Pomatia Red Blend 2013
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Primarius, Pinot Gris 2015
Januik, Merlot 2013
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Marchigüe, Cabernet, Colchagua Valley 2013
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Conn Creek, Cabernet, Napa 2012
Conn Creek, Cabernet, Napa 2013
Villa Maria, Sauvignon Blanc 2015
G3, Cabernet 2013
Chateau Smith, Cabernet, Washington State 2014
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Albero, Bobal Rose 2015
Ca' del Baio Barbaresco Valgrande 2012
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Lugana, San Benedetto 2014
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Kenneth R. Feinberg - What is Life Worth?
Kent Haruf - Our Souls at Night
Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
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Amy Stewart - Girl Waits With Gun
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Norm Macdonald - Based on a True Story
Christopher Buckley - Boomsday
Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way
Ruth Sepetys - Between Shades of Gray
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Claire Vaye Watkins - Gold Fame Citrus
Markus Zusak - I am the Messenger
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
James Joyce - Dubliners
Cheryl Strayed - Torch
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Saul Bellow - Mister Sammler's Planet
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Kent Haruf - Eventide
David Halberstam - Summer of '49
Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
Maria Dermoȗt - The Ten Thousand Things
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
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Christopher Buckley - Thank You for Smoking
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Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cheryl Strayed - Tiny Beautiful Things
Sara Varon - Bake Sale
Stephen King - 11/22/63
Paul Goldstein - Errors and Omissions
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
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Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
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William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
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Comments (18)
I guess people don't use spell check or proof what they write. Note the following:
"Applicants must mapply online"
Or, perhaps, this is a new term for the creative thinkers?
Posted by Mike (one of infinity) | November 14, 2012 12:57 PM
That's probably the future minimum cost-of-living here once the "planners" get done.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | November 14, 2012 1:01 PM
You missed the title:
"Human Relations Commission Public Information Porgram Coordinator"
Perhaps the new coordinator is supposed to conduct pogroms?
Posted by random | November 14, 2012 1:17 PM
I have a few questions for those more familiar than I with city hall.
There's NO CHANCE there has already been an insider selected for this position and this posting is merely pro forma is there?
And does EACH commission and department have their own "Public Information Program Coordinator"?
NOW I understand why we have no money for police, fire & road repairs.
Posted by ltjd | November 14, 2012 1:40 PM
Random: Any bets that most city workers even know what a "pogrom" is? Good catch on the Freudian slip.
Posted by ltjd | November 14, 2012 1:43 PM
Why can't we go with the unpaid social liaison officer model?
Posted by Allan L. | November 14, 2012 1:54 PM
Better hurry. The deadline is tomorrow.
Posted by Garage Wine | November 14, 2012 2:02 PM
It's always instructive to note that this doesn't much play in the local media. Maybe they should go with Alan's idea.
Posted by David E Gilmore | November 14, 2012 2:22 PM
Any shares of the City's equity would warrant junk bond status.
Posted by PanchoPDX | November 14, 2012 2:31 PM
How many ways are there to discourage people from applying because they've already got someone picked out? How about:
This position will close when 100 applications are received or no later than November 16, 2012 at 4:30PM.
"We want everyone who is qualified, but will arbitrarily stop reviewing applications once 100 people apply."
W. T. F. ???
Posted by Dave J. | November 14, 2012 2:33 PM
"Equity" (besides something you've probably lost in your house) is one of the insidious new thought-control words of the demo-leftist authoritarians.
Control the words: control the thought.
Posted by sally | November 14, 2012 2:51 PM
Someone above hit the nail on the head - there's already somebody slotted to fill this seat. One of the City Hall minions who is soon to be unemployed upon exipiry of the SamRand administration.
Posted by Frank | November 14, 2012 3:31 PM
Probably, Frank, but my question is whether or not this person was already working at City Hall, and this is a great opportunity to boost a resume? Besides, correct me if this has changed, but didn't Sam Adams already work out a program where all CoP flacks laid off after he leaves still get six months' pay and benefits? I wonder if this is less an actual position and more an opportunity to get one more hipster a six-month vacation.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | November 14, 2012 4:23 PM
Someone above hit the nail on the head - there's already somebody slotted to fill this seat. One of the City Hall minions who is soon to be unemployed upon exipiry of the SamRand administration.
I would bet everything I have that it's someone hired from the mayor's staff. That's a no-brainer.
Posted by Dave J. | November 14, 2012 4:44 PM
Did anybody here sign up for Mac's List to get postings of more great Portland job opportunities?
Posted by Michelle | November 14, 2012 4:51 PM
Don't worry - the City will likely start charging to park at Washington Park, and probably every neighborhood too. They'll find the money.
Posted by umpire | November 14, 2012 6:17 PM
In a related story, check out any Sunday classified ad section for Help Wanted.
The first two pages are nearly exclusively government and pseudo government jobs and obviously the best paying. Schools, ESDs, universities, cities, and the semi public agencies that feed off them.
"The private sector is doing fine", some guy recently said.
Posted by ltjd | November 15, 2012 12:54 AM
I'm confused about the salary. It says 5k-6k, but does not mention if this is per annul, or, as Jack surmise, per month. Since when do job announcements not make a key detail like compensation clear?
Portland is subjecting all its thinking citizens to a slow, inexorable pogrom. Someone knocked on my door this evening. I was sitting next to the front door when they knocked. I called out "who is it?". "Oregon Action", came the reply. I try to stay nice, but at that moment, my response was like the highly irritated Englishman at home in in his castle. I yelled out: "Get out of here!", and the person complied. I felt kinda bad, because I know nothing about them, so I googled them. Of course, Oregon Action is a race hustling-guilt-tripping pump-up poison machine. I want to move, someplace post-racial. Barbados?
Posted by Gaye harris | November 15, 2012 9:10 PM