Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Some fads peak early, some have quite a long duration of staying power. Apparently among the students, Friends For Sale in the Book of Face is one of the premature There used to be a time when most of the messages on my wall would be about who bought who or asked this or that pet to do something.

Now it has died down, and my price has peaked at 1.5 million dollars, although by logging in every six hours, I still get 250,000 dollars, making my cash at hand just a little over a million dollars.

Of course something else has taken its place, but thankfully I discovered the feature to hide all notifications from a certain application, or to hide all notices from a certain person who floods the walls with this or that quiz that they have taken for that day, or that they leveled up in a certain game.

There is still something to learn here for the computer science majors, who may one day want to delve into the same market.

I know, in fact, that there is already one group, who, for their work, made the Pepsi Max Bro game for the Book of Face.

I was wondering if I should post about it here or in the student accessible version, but I was hesitant to let the students know from what I write that I was checking the wall posts more than just cursorily.

@@ It is amazing to how much some people will bend the truth just so that they come out smelling like roses or not being at fault.

Good thing that these people do not think these things through (they usually come up with these so-called explanations on the fly, since part of their personality is that they never expect to be questioned).

So when someone who wants to appear clean to a former employer says about their most recent job stint that he decided to leave because the sales were low, is that really such a good thing?

First of all, the funny thing is that the former employers know of all of his bad habits which is part of the reason he was shifted off to another branch in the first place, so whatever he says, is taken with a grain of salt so big that it requires calling the most recent boss to verify the veracity.

And the lie is easily exposed. The former employers do not even have any probing questions to the effect or semi-defense that maybe the ex-employee did not really act that way, showing they already know his modus.

Second, if you are the supervisor, and you leave because the sales are low, is that not really an admission of your incompetence?

Even if it supposed to be voluntary on your part (which it was not) and the boss agreed, it just means that the boss agrees that you really were not doing your job well and that you should be sacked.

What also is interesting for me is that the way the sales-are-low excuse was given sounds more like a rat deserting a sinking ship, which just speaks for the overwhelming sense of self preservation of this person.

Besides that, there are also all these lies spread about being asked to return to work at that former branch, but not receiving the calls, which never happened.

Session 2843 is glad to be rid of the bad weeds. Class dismissed.