The other day in my Canada post, a conscientious objector to information omitting for the sakes of brevity, one @blaineb, pointed out that there was no information regarding maple syrup in my post.

![maplesyrup.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcobKtDk33uSow49w7bpUn8AszCjLrFZ88KX6oQeVohrN/maplesyrup.png)

Maple syrup is what Canadians eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  It is the blood of maple trees, the leaf of which decorates the flag, and comes in numerous varieties and shapes and textures and so forth. It's harvested by inserting a tap into a tree in the spring when the sap is surging upwards and then boiling off.  Typically, farm children are tasked with the manual labor involved.

I actually have some maple syrup in my fridge, as you can see above.  It was obtained by going as far north into Canada as divergence from the one highway allows; meaning about half an hour off its path northward.

## 4 types of maple syrup

http://www.lykefamilymaplesyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gradingsyrup.png

The specimen I own is medium.  After feasting on maple syrup samples at the Canadian roadside, I selected that particular one as being the least offensive.

Canadians like to coat everything they consume in maple syrup.  This includes meat, bacon, pancakes, ice cream, candy, and chips.  

# More about microlearning

Microlearning, aside from being all those things I've mentioned in my earlier article, perpetuates the ongoing trend of untruths in corporate culture.  The main such untruth is that a low-level run of the mill employee is actually irreplaceable, important, and should always be catered to.  This is not true.  Any executive will tell you this.  However, this is one fine form of mind control.  Why? Because you want low level Monica to feel that she's empowered and important.  You want her to arrive for work early, all excited and happy to serve her overlords.  You want her to believe in all the bullshit you're feeding her because you are paying Monica to work 40 hours a week but actually her job requires 50 hours of labor.  No one wants to pay her for that though so the next best thing is to trick her into putting in those 10 hours for free.

You can "mentor" her by tricking Joanne, who is one level up, to put in an extra 5 hours of her time for free towards this "mentorship" goal.  Joanne gets to be a mentor and Monica gets to be mentored.  Of course, they're both wasting their time as they both have jobs where, should they have any brilliant idea, their actual boss will take all the credit for it.

https://www.talentlms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/TLMS_20160511_1200x628.jpg

So here comes microlearning.  Both Monica and Joanne feel like they're so damn important that the company collectively dropped to its knees to cater to their educational needs.  The company did everything it could to make this learning "fun", easy and interactive.

It's fun because Monica and Joanne _WANT_ learning to be fun.  It's important to make them believe that this superficial crap is the company giving them what they want.  This company gives people what they want.  (What they really wanted was a pay raise but that shit ain't happening ofc)

More on this next post.

*Images:* http://www.lykefamilymaplesyrup.com provided us with the handy maple syrup jug drawing.  The photo uptop was taken by me and you can see sturdy tool container in the background.  The fine quality of this image is due to my impeccable eye for nature photography. The microlearning picture is from https://www.talentlms.com which makes money by peddling nuggets of various smartnesses to the stupids.