Thank you! I will try modifying my search with that

Unfortunately, no. This is a statewide Massachusetts issue. You can't even really move out to Western Mass and find anything affordable any more. It's just awful all the way around.

I would shift your search to Northern Rhode Island. It's not too far from Medway and you've a better chance at finding something affordable.

Hot take: Facebook/META employees seem to have massive delusions of grandeur

> mentions them working at META/Facebook which doesn't seem OK.

Well that explains why they're "a little unhinged"

Always happy to give folks a good reason to travel!

We would love that! I’ll DM you

i meant if anyone knows about any other leads like facebook groups/other useful websites etc where I can search also

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yea; I don't want to make any assumptions to their activity, but only posting once a week makes me think they're somewhat inactive. The only other non-automod on the sub seems to have stopped posting a year ago.

Seems like a good enough reason to add at least one more mod.

Me too!

Looks like this thread has made the top all time post on his subreddit.

Thank you, its good to hear that admins do take action against mods.

Hey you should submit a report for admin review, you have pretty glaring evidence for mod abuse.

Reddit did ban a mod on r/newjersey last year who was doxxing users who would argue with him. So it is possible for the admins to take action.

I've shared the preliminary budget presentation in my Dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1brrf43kj6kehz/FY24%20Preliminary%20Budget%20Estimates%20March%2016%2C%202023.pdf?dl=0

(it's also in the agenda, but I know people can find that unwieldy to deal with)

In addition to the points made by u/teddygrahamdispenser, it's also due to deliberate decisions by the School Committee to:

1. hold staffing harmless from the enrollment drop two years ago due to COVID and remote learning. Our elementary enrollment took a dive; we usually would have laid off teachers and did not. We used federal pandemic aid to retain staff (an entirely supported use). That now needs to be folded back into the regular budget; we can cover it, but it's part of what's "already spent."
2. Similarly, we've been "preloading" some of our expected state funding increases due to the Student Opportunity Act; you can see this illustrated on page 28 of the presentation. Thus we have had those staff a year ahead of when state funding would have supported them.

Slides 24 and 25 then show how that shakes out over our budget increase (which is both significant and largely state funded).

I'm always glad to take questions on budget stuff.

I spent 15 minutes reading his profile. I need to talk a walk and breathe some fresh air. I fear I too shall start narrating my existence.

I think that sub qualifies to get reported for something.

Oh yeah, low income people notoriously hate affordable housing, safe sidewalks, and reliable mass transit.

Why would it be "not OK" to work at Facebook/META? Do you have an approved jobs list? Is Starbucks ok? What about Amazon? Are mods allowed to work for huge corporate monstrosities like Walmart and Target? Or do they all have to be unemployed?

Look at his account, he's like unhinged

Jesus what is this person, makes me scared they live in mass ngl.

Nah it was a thread having to do with an Asian family moving to a town in MA and they were asking how they would be received. A legit question that the mod perceived as completely racist. Like, they said that even mentioning racial differences in any shape or form is racist and should not be tolerated. The only person in the thread who didn’t get banned was someone who made a comment shitting on everyone else in the thread for being racist. The mod banned us all, copied and pasted the same reasoning.

A couple days later I get a message from another mod apologizing for this “over-zealous” mod. I responded that I simply wanted my ban to be rescinded. But I guess I’m not allowed to message the mods for like 28 days following the ban. I’m annoyed because I spend the most time on the MA sub.

And being passionate about the subject will only get you so far before the “community” you felt you were a part of turns on you and bites off your head for being “The Man”. I would actually probably rather have a minor amputation than be a mod of any subreddit again

Dont count on it. Reddit does really not take much action against mods. just got look up the drama with bostontrees and the mod there being a scumbag also .
Reddits lack of action against crazy mods like the Mass one are in part why this site is dying

To get some people together so we can approach the city as a group with a clear message.