A hoax revealed

As a skeptic, like it or not, I’ve gotten something of a reputation in my family as the go-to person for “is this real?” queries regarding Internet memes.  I spend way too much time doing other people’s Google-searches and Snopes-checks.  So I’ve gotten something of a nose for an Internet hoax when I see one.  Of course one of the biggest clues is that one of my relatives sends me the thing as part of a chain of forwarded e-mails.  If it contains the text “forward this to five friends” or similar, it is hard to wipe the scent of hoax off of it.

But Tuesday of this week something a bit astonishing started happening.  My facebook feed became full of the same link being forwarded by dozens and dozens of people.  After who knows how many times, I finally clicked on it to see what the fuss was about.  It was there that I met “Jenny” the girl who quit her job with a white-board.
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