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.

They say that if you lent a person twenty bucks and you never see that person again, that it is well worth it.

But I say if you can get rid of that person even before he borrows money from you, all the better.

Partly it is about cutting your losses, the above saying. It is also about knowing what it is worth to you to be able to get rid of those who you do not want to hang around you. Hmm, there might a movie in there somewhere.

As for my version of it, it assumes that you will be able to glean from other people what this person has done in the past, and refrain from falling into the same trap. After all, someone that codependent will not have that many friends in the first place, but must disillusion folks at an alarmingly fast rate.

From my experience, unless you are already hanging over a cliff holding on to dear life, there is no situation desperate enough where you have to deal with these people. You are better off falling.

Okay, enough of a pretext or precursor, or preface, one of those words with the prefix meaning before.

Again I am talking about employees, who usually are the ones in such a dire state of need in the first place that they will do anything to get a job they may not be suited for, then once there try to talk the employer into giving them more than their proper compensation with a promise of future services.

A business owner has to be able to determine if the money that such a troublesome worker brings in is enough to make up for the losses incurred due to their behavior. And sometimes a full investigation is not forthcoming, or in its duration there may be more losses and less productivity.

Just like a classroom, sometimes it is better to start of with more and better rules of governance with a new set of students at the start of the next term, except with an employer, the end of the term is when he decides it.

Then the new standards of operation can be discussed with the next batch of employees, and hopefully they accept it.

Otherwise, there are surely those who are waiting in the wings for an opportunity to work and get paid.

Except that with employees, good ones are very difficult to groom and build up loyalty in, especially if previous employers or the trainers themselves cultivate in them the sense that if they do not like the way things are going in one branch, then they can opt to be transferred to another.

They do not seem to see that getting a good reputation at one place means a lot of return business.

So in that sense it is not like a school, because the boss has to find constructive mutually beneficial ways that the workers will stay on and keep performing well, such as a seniority bonus, besides promotion.

Maybe, in fact, an academic setting analogy is only at best marginally applicable to the real world work place.

Session 3033 sees the last sentence could mean everything written here was then for naught. Class dismissed.