Bullshitter at work - could this be true?

Give her a membership form for the local Conservative party. They elected at least one pathological liar as leader.

With respect all of those are short learning paths - it takes longer to be a doctor than it does all those professions combined let alone a vet (6 years) and solicitor (about 5 years I believe)

You wouldn't believe the careers I've had (constantky changing and retraining ) and the countries I lived in. And the entanglement with various governments and dodgy situations. I wouldn't believe them if someone told then to me

Yeah i would leave a prick who drove FIFTY miles above the speed limit. He could have killed people and is clearly a dickhead and I don’t believe for a second it was the first time he did it - you don’t just decide on a whim to do that, it’s a long time habit.

Can I just ask what do you see in such a selfish dangerous prick?

he took full responsibility because he got caught and was trying to get away with it

I have to say I’d find it extremely difficult to not call someone who told me they’d done 120mph a selfish cunt. So we’ll done on that score OP!

I call these people Jays (from the Inbetweeners)

I had a Jay as an IL who claims that mere days before she met my relative, she was being stalked (by a wanted criminal on the run) and the police set up a sting at her house, but didn’t tell her. She was brushing her teeth and this bloke came through her window. She started to scream and as soon this happened and next thing she knew a police officer came into her bathroom and shot this stalker. The stalker also had a gun and shot the policeman back who lost an eye.

After arresting the stalker they rang her and asked her to come to his home (even though he was apparently on the run) and when she went every room had printed pictures taken from afar of her just going about her day, it was like wallpaper apparently. Because police often show victims their stalkers houses. He got life imprisonment apparently.

I did say I was surprised that I hadn’t read about this in the paper, or heard about it through my connections (I worked in the media at the time), to which she answered the police decided it wasn’t allowed to be made public (🤣) - I don’t think she realised that I knew this isn’t how reporting restrictions work.

She also had ran an airport, spoke 5 languages (but forgot which ones when I asked her further) had nearly got stabbed but a random Good Samaritan had jumped I the way and sustained life changing injuries and had been raped several times (this made me really conflicted as by rule I believe women but she is a serial and flagrant liar so it was hard).

She actually changed after a few years and doesn’t lie anymore (she has also split up with my IL but they have a child together so we still see her), but it was entertaining if nothing else.

I do wonder why Jays do this. Attention? Low self esteem? Delusion?

The “I was doing 120mph and the police just gave me a warning” thing is, for some reason, a really popular lie among serial bullshitters - so much so that whenever my DP or I encounters someone who tells a lot of lies/boasts, we literally describe them to each other “the sort of person who tells speeding anecdotes”.

Sounds like Fast Show guy, “30 years man and boy”.

Perfect response to a ridiculous post OP 😀

Your colleague probably has low self esteem, bullshitting to make herself sound more interesting and intelligent. It's quite sad really that she can't just be herself.

She would piss me off though, and I'd likely quiz her when she came out with such bullshit.

i used to manage someone who lied all the time , used to bring in a medal that apparently he had got for saving some one’s life in a war zone and put it on his desk . One day he called in and said would not be in that day as his parents been killed in a car crash . Phoned his home phone to see how he was , his dad answered the phone .

Yes this was what came to my mind with pub scenario.

I worked with a girl who told us her Mum used to be married to H Samual and so she could walk into any branch and have whatever she wanted for free at any time. Also that she actually sung all of Kylie's songs and Kylie mimed them. There were many more things but she was hilarious and had no idea that we all thought she was batshit 😂

I know who the woman that overheard something in a pub that helped solve a murder was. She is in her 60’s as the police caught Colin Pitchfork. It’s the first murder solved by DNA and John Simms was in a docudrama of it where they all picked up the wrong ‘local’ accent.
Ask her for details and catch her in a lie?

🙄 I didn't bother to read the rest of the comments as I didn't see the point ...wht do you even care ...must be a reason

Wondering if I worked with your N 😂. She use to tell such funny lies.

One I always think of, she came in one day and said her husband had just left to go to work on the North Sea oil rigs, we work down south for context.

That day as I was leaving I walked outside and he was sat waiting for her to finish work. He waved at me and asked if she’d be long.

The next day she again said how much she was missing her husband as he was on the rigs. I was sat there thinking are you okay? I didn’t say anything as she was harmless enough and wasn’t hurting anyone. Had a rough childhood so think she lived in a little fantasy land in her mind. Nice person though, you just had to take what she said with a pinch of salt.

If my teenage son was doing 100mph on the motorway I wouldn't be smiling.

Ps what was it about the murder that she overhead in the pub? I wondered if it was along the lines of a news story I’d read.

Try the jokey “photo or it didn’t happen” phrase.

I worked with someone who said Princess Diana went around her cousin’s house when he was really ill! She’d met him while Charles was in hospital. Many eye rolls later and she called our bluff and brought the photos! It was hard to automatically rule out the other incredible stuff she said. Don’t think she ever directed a surgeon though.

Some people do achieve a huge amount in a short time, a very good friend is in his mid 40's, is a medical doctor, has a law degree, served as a pilot in the air force - some people just achieve a lot in a short space of time. Others like me a just content with a BSc and a job!

I’d be tempted to say ‘cool story, bro’ (needs more dinosaurs)

I saw a panel show with Greg Davies once and it must have been something to do with truth and lies (Would I Lie To You?).

All of the outlandish things that turned out to be true about him were remarkable, from school days as a pupil, to being a teacher and his general life.

DH got pulled over years ago (30+) doing over 100 and got a ticking off. If y
they don’t have proper evidence behind the copper saying “he was speeding m’lud” then they don’t bother.

I work with a liar and I feel your pain. She is the opposite of your colleague. If she was lying about speeding she would say “I was driving at 69 miles an hour and he said that if I had accelerated then I would have been speeding so I had to pay the fine.” The whole day is a constant stream about how terrible things have happened and none of them are her fault. It’s exhausting. I think people underestimate how draining it is spending huge amounts of time with someone you can’t trust and can’t have any sort of normal conversation with.

I'd just laugh at her stories and shake my head at her.

I used to work with someone like this. Used to tell the most outrageous stories of courage and bravery, saving peoples lives etc. We all knew it was bullshit but very entertaining listening to it all.
My then teenage sone was stopped on the motorway doing 100 mph. Pulled over by the police, he was questioned and told them he was a squaddie posted in Germany. The policeman patted him on the shoulder, reminded him he wasn't on the autobahn.
Gave him a warning and let him go 😁