Double Standards for Committee News Items

In early 2024, Brett Davis was sacked from his Facebook Editor role after adding a post to the Shoalhaven Bushwalkers Facebook page which told club members of an article in Wild Magazine written by club member Joe Nethery about the club's longest serving President - Karen Davis - and her newly created list of the Shoalhaven's high points that would make interesting walk destinations. She called the list of high points the Karens.

The post included a link to the list of "Karens" which Brett had uploaded to his own web page (which was no longer a business site but just a site where he put information to make it available to everyone).

When President John Kubale saw the post he ordered Annie Heppell, the SBW Facebook Admin, to remove Brett Davis from his Facebook Editor role. This was yet another example of a President making up the rules as he went along, because it is up to Annie as the Facebook Admin, or the SBW committee as the ruling body for the club, to make this decision - not the President.

When Brett appealed to the SBW committee to get his job back, the SBW committee backed the President and gave the following reason for the dismissal ...

"Your post promoted Wild magazine and your personal website" - see the complete PDF here - committee Brett Letter Facebook.pdf.

Wild magazine and Brett's website were mentioned in the post, but it was no different to the mention of unrelated businesses by other Shoalhaven Bushwalkers Facebook editors over the years. It was also no different to the posts by Shoalhaven Bushwalkers committee members in the SBW News, none of which resulted in their sacking as Facebook editors or committee members. See the images below.

See also Double Standards and Double Standards for Facebook Editors

Perhaps the club should should take down its News page because it promotes Google, or the club's Facebook page because it advertises Facebook!

The SBW committee victimised Brett (again), made up a ridiculous reason for his dismissal, and revealed their own double standards all at the same time!

Should the Shoalhaven Bushwalkers committee members responsible for advertising
below be sacked from their jobs for mentioning other businesses and websites?

The IT Team advertises Google Drive and google.com on the page it set up for Shoalhaven Bushwalkers News without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The IT Team advertises Google Drive and google.com on the page it set up for Shoalhaven Bushwalkers walks program without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The IT Team advertises Google Sheets and therefore Google as well on the page it set up to share Shoalhaven Bushwalkers contact details without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The President advertised Huskisson Pictures, a film called the Great White Whale, Australian Geographic, and the International Alliance of Mountain Film Festivals in this News item without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The Secretary advertised the Berry Rotary Club in this News item without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The Theatre Organiser advertised Huskisson Pictures and the Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (and their website) in this News item without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The IT Team advertised Huskisson Pictures and the Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (and their website) in this News item without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The President advertised Gmail and therefore Google to all club members when he sent out this email about Leadership Training Day using his own email address rather than the club's email address without any complaints, but the former Webmaster gets sacked for a similar post.

The committee decided to create a new website that advertises a website creation and hosting company called GoDaddy on every page without any complaints. The former Webmaster gets sacked for one mention of Wild magazine. The old SBW website which was created by the former Webmaster had no advertising for its hosting company anywhere!