{"id":7749,"date":"2016-07-01T00:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2016-07-01T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:08:05","slug":"caveat_pre-emptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/07\/caveat_pre-emptor.html","title":{"rendered":"Caveat Pre-emptor"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If something seems too good to be true, it probably is”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new social media director has quit — saying in a scathing Facebook post that he had to do it to save his own “health and sanity” from an office full of “political hacks plus a boss who just couldn’t get it.”<\/p>\n

Scott Kleinberg, who came to New York from the Chicago Tribune, was announced as City Hall’s new social media director in a May 3 memo that boasted that he and his team would “infuse personality and engagement into the social media channels for the Office of the Mayor and City government as a whole.”<\/p>\n

Just eight weeks later, Kleinberg said he was out.<\/p>\n

“Well, that was fast,” he wrote on Facebook Tuesday night. “I moved to NYC for a dream job and that’s not what I got.<\/p>\n

“I tried to stick it out, but it was impossible,” he continued. “I don’t even know the word quit, but for the sake of my health and my sanity, I decided I needed to do just that. Now, for the first time in my life, I’m unemployed… I’ve learned a lot in the past several weeks, including something I’ve ignored in many a fortune cookie: If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.”<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

“I’m sure it’s impossible for someone of your caliber, with your work ethic and honesty, to survive in a sea of cut-throat political hacks,” one friend commented.<\/p>\n

Kleinberg responded with thanks, adding, “I ended up with political hacks plus a boss who just couldn’t get it. It was a bad combination for sure.”<\/p>\n

Another wrote that he was impressed Kleinberg had stayed with the job as long as he did, adding, “It clearly was not as advertised.”<\/p>\n

A third commented, “Well, you are not the only one to be disappointed with our mayor’s office.”<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

“New York City government is a tough, fast-paced job that is not for everyone,” Andrea Hagelgans, head of de Blasio’s communications team, said in a statement. “We wish him well.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If something seems too good to be true, it probably is”: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new social media director has quit — saying in a scathing Facebook post that he had to do it to save his own “health and sanity” from an office full of “political hacks plus a boss who just couldn’t get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}