University fires $100k/year social media director for lying on resume

http://www.annarbor.com/news/jordan-miller/

Turns out that the University of Michigan's social media director, who pulled $100,000 a year (seriously), resigned because she lied on her resume - she said she graduated from college; she didn't - she was one incomplete away.

Well, she and her ex-husband are in a bitter custody dispute - he can't see their son - so he turned her in for her lie.

She also was a reporter at The Ann Arbor News and its successor, annarbor.com.

She's getting barbecued in the readers' comments - and the Reddit comments are very, very interesting.

Bottom line - don't lie!

 

5.5.

 

Here's the Michigan Daily story:

http://www.michigandaily.com/news/12social-media-director-resigns-amid-allegations11

Here's the Reddit link (citizenthrowawayx is her ex-husband):

http://www.reddit.com/r/uofm/comments/14f6ef/um_social_media_director_jordan_miller_lies_on

Here's her resume and proof she didn't graduate:

http://imgur.com/a/RLn96

 

Seems like both her and her ex-husband are trainwrecks. Also, why is everyone who attended college but didn't get a degree is a just a class short of graduating?

 

One hundred THOUSAND dollars?

 

This does not end well.

 

Given the relative importance of social media to its target clientele - and as a student recruiting tool - $100K for the director's position at a prestigious school this size doesn't seem out of line.

That said, this doesn't make the news if the job pays $42.5.

 

Wonder how many people will apply for this? A U-M spokesman said that it will be posted.

$100k a year for tweeting? Seriously?

 

The job seems to require more than tweeting.

www.annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-to-hire-social-media-director/

 

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