Bullshitter at work - could this be true?

Why are you worried. She likes telling stories, probably exaggerates a bit and its fun for the listeners. What is it to you?

Oh lord I had a friend like this. The older we got the more outlandish the stories.

Massive bullshitter. I think there’s more of them than we think. I knew a woman once who said her two children died. It turned out to be complete fiction. She was one of these people who loved the attention and sympathy those lies bought her.

Trust your bullshit detector.

Oh yes, another woman I know claimed she was best friends with Princess Grace.

Seven years to qualify as a doctor
Five years to qualify as a vet
Four - five years to qualify as a solicitor (depending on the training route)

That’s sixteen years accounted for with no time allowed for actually practising any of those professions and earning some money to pay off the hundreds of thousands of pounds in student loans that she would have if she had truly qualified in all three fields.

I'm ashamed to say years ago, I got stopped doing 115 mph and was let off by the police officer who stopped me. (He was fuming, but when he calmed down, he definitely taught me a very good lesson about deaths/what he sees on roads and motorways etc).

So yes I would believe it, particularly if it was a long time ago.

If you met me, I don't think you would ever believe the type of life and adventures I've had.

I think you're possibly and with respect very limited in your life experiences.

There must have been more to it that made her stories impossible, not just she was seriously unfit?

I had a teacher at school who was seriously seriously obese, like can’t stand up for the length of the lesson situation- who used to be in the British trampolining team. She had had a terrible accident and basically became disabled and just ballooned.

And at work we had some stupid thing where we had to bring in stuff and tell a fact about ourselves that would surprise the team- a similarly sized/fitness level colleague revealed she had been a professional ballet dancer in the royal ballet- complete with photos and paraphernalia.

We've all met the boasters and the bull shitters and the ones who big themselves up , but mostly it's best to just nod and smile as someone will rat them out eventually. Plus liars need good memories, so best to store up the blatant tall stories to hold against them down the line if they trip up , which can happen!
I think it's a personality flaw sometimes or just a way of making themselves look good / better.
It is sad really and any true facts they might say are then not believed.

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😂😂😂You have a live one OP

That would make me burst out laughing if I heard it being told with a straight face.

Depending on the nature of your work, ask her to stop telling such lies in front of you. The 120mph story you could argue affects you because someone you knew was seriously injured or died in a road crash where speeding was a cause.

It could have been 120kph, so if she cannot read a speedo properly she needs glasses and you could complain to the DVLA about her fitness to drive.

Then when she next tells a lie, complain formally about her. It is unwanted behaviour.

I do know someone who by 35 ish was a doctor, teacher and lawyer (as in an actual lawyer, not just had a law degree).

That's hilarious. the woman i know like this, she'd mentioned having a perforated bowel. whatever that is. Sounds serious. Anyway, at some school fundraiser she was having her second glass of wine with some wings in a chilli and garlic sauce and I said, it's so amazing that you can eat normally with your perforated bowel. Her husband's head did a 360 degree swivel. he looked at her like. Really. I'm a cow. :-p

depending on the operation, this is theoretically possible... if she was sedated rather than having a full ga

what operation was it?

also certain brain surgeries are done awake with patient involvement

There was a guy on one of those 'motorway cops' shows who was doing 150mph and he just got a fine

I used to work for a big 4 accountants. In the execs office they had EAs/PAs there. One of them was of Greek/cypriot origin but British born.

She told another PA and all the other EAs/PAs that she was engaged to a wealthy Greek/Cypriot man and had a huge engagement ring but couldn’t wear it out as she was worried it would get stolen. We erred on not believing her. I think she’d had a fling with one of the office boys too so to go from that to almost a millionaire was a bit of a stretch. She kept on promising to bring the ring in one day, when she’d be driven in by his staff but never did. She’s left there now. Unmarried apparently or no one hears from her.

I feel your pain, OP.

Being near such people is annoying and draining.

The best advice I can give is to turn it into a game that you can play. Invent the most ludicrous bollocks and see how she reacts. Your starter for 10 is your forthcoming holiday in Elevenorife where you will be painting the Pope's portrait.

Enjoy 😁

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator it does become impossible to give somebody who embellishes, exaggerates and invents stories 'the benefit of the doubt' when you know (over time) that three quarters of what they say is fiction.

I'd recommend being a bit more guarded than to give them the benefit of the doubt! OP doesn't have to react, say 'ok, citizen's arrest for telling porky pies'' but she can privately think 'oh, off to the races'

Anyway, the woman I know who is like this, I'm not jealous of her because I want people in my life to feel a connection to me and enjoy my company. I know she's always off doing something but I wonder (genuinely, i am wondering) do any of those people enjoy her company Specifically hers.? Not the gang she assembles. But hers. I feel like it'd be hard to say yes. But what do I know.

120? I drive a 2.2 and it doesn’t like doing over 95. In our area, 120 would indeed be an automatic ban.

We had an elevenarife at my old work, you could see her thinking about how to outdo anyone else’s stories. It was entertaining but I never understood why she felt the need, she was attractive, entertaining and certainly didn’t need to embellish or exaggerate to be popular. Maybe serious issues? Who knows, I’m certainly no expert.

Used to work with one of these. She was a terrible administrator, would never finish any work given and would add clip art to official documents, presumably to compensate for terrible quality of whatever she’d typed. She took on the job role by proxy of wherever she was working, same if she read and article about a holiday destination, she’d been there snorkelling, water gliding, parachuting from 10,000 feet - she was very unfit, so it was obviously lies.
She eventually went to work in doctors surgery as a receptionist, so probably worked her way to top surgeon by now.

It’s my opinion why would you care and I stand by that …I understand other ppl may not think that way but it is still MY OPINION have a fab day