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WWYD? Compulsive liar in position of slight power.

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RelentlessSylvia · 15/10/2018 11:56

There's this woman. She's a great laugh, she's really good company, a brilliant hostess and has a sharp mind. It's great fun being round her and it's only afterwards, picking through things she's said, that you realise 40 per cent of what came out of her mouth is demonstrable bullshit.

This isn't a one off. I've known her for years (our daughters share a rare condition) and she's always the same. She'll say things I know didn't happen, attribute words to other people I know they didn't say and has a habit of casting herself as the hero of all her anecdotes with everybody admitting their errors to her by the end of the story.

Basically I trust her about as far as I could throw her.

She's recently become the chair of a committee connected to a group that provides help to disabled kids (including our own). The group has paid employees but a parent volunteer committee.

Do you think I should warn the chief employee that she's a bullshitter? I can just see her doing all this 'strictly between us, X's mum is a bit of an alchie/Z's mum self-harms' thing she's always done (usually utter crap).

In all likelihood if I can see through her, so can someone else - so I don't need to warn them? Much of her bullshitting is harmless self-biggery (e.g. she has six open university degrees - at the age of 31 Hmm) but some of the lies are horrible e.g. so and so exaggerates her child's disability to get more benefits, so and so's child bit a teacher and they needed 20 stitches.

Should I tip them off to take everything she says with a pinch of salt or just assume it'll all come out in the wash?

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RelentlessSylvia · 15/10/2018 11:58

Apologies if I don't come back today, it's half term here and I'm up to my tits.

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ComtesseDeSpair · 15/10/2018 13:05

I’d stay out of it. If she’s as much of a bullshitter as you say she is then that will become evident to people on the committee rather quickly - without you looking as though you’re eager to stir the pot or get people wondering if you might have some kind of ulterior motive for saying she’s a liar.

MulticolourMophead · 15/10/2018 13:28

Document stuff if there's the possibility her bullshitting will have any impact on you.

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