Robo-Call to Employees: YOU'RE FIRED!

We've got 'em!

Last month, the DISD Board of Trustees voted to affirm DISD administration's plan to "fix" academically-unacceptable Spruce High School by relocating it's 10th and 11th grade population to other schools.

The plan was championed by DISD Trustee Nancy Bingham who said the school was being gutted at the will of Spruce parents who told her to do it at community meetings.

This left a problem however: what to do with all those teachers who (now) used to teach at Spruce.

The solution: robo-calls. Three of them to be exact.

You know, those annoying recordings that call you up on election day to tell you that some poor schmuck politician wants to destroy the Earth as we know it? Ahh, those!

Plus, the District didn't consider the bigger problem: that we'd get our hands on copies and post them.

[Note: If you have problems playing these recordings, simply download Apple Quicktime Player]

First, the District's human resources department robo-called a message blaming the whole thing on the Board of Trustees (listen to it here) and telling everybody: YOU'RE FIRED!

Oops! Maybe the H.R. folks had an itchy trigger finger. They didn't really mean to, like, fire everyone. They just meant to not fire everyone, but then fire everyone. Confused?

Yeah, we were too. But then, in the midst of confusion came a robo-call from Alliance/AFT Chief Aimee Boldender setting things straight.

In the second call (listen to it here), Bolender told employees: oops! The District didn't really mean to fire-fire you, they just meant to pre-fire you (after all, there are teaching contracts in play here). Then, next year, they're going to tell everybody YOU'RE FIRED!

Bolender's message warned everybody to get ready for a third robo-call.

So the third one (listen to it here) starts out with the gratuitous blame: "as a result of the School Board's decision to support on newly-promoted 9th and 12th graders..." most of you are really, like, just kinda-fired, but if you have a contract, we'll keep you around for a year as a sub and then: YOU'RE FIRED!

Fired by robo-call! A new low! Whose voice was it on the recording?

The only thing that would have been better is if it had been Nancy Bingham's!