Lying on CV

[BigPaperBag]

This is actually so funny, I just have to tell someone. My DH used to have a job with a really poncey job title ‘chief kangaroo liaison officer of Australia’ you know, that kind of thing 😂 Anyway, there were only two of him in his organisation during a certain time period and then he moved on to where he is now. He was in a meeting yesterday and when they were doing the intros a guy who used to work at the organisation told everyone that he used to do that job and then told everyone that he’d instigated and followed through on a couple of massive projects that DH was working on. Anyway, just to be sure, before calling him out, DH checked was dates he was claiming to work there was you guessed it, it was the exact same time he was there! And yes, DH did call him out. Burn 🔥😂 You’ve got to laugh at the audacity of others!

Any other stories to brighten up my day?

Oh and DH worked extremely closely with the other person with the same job title who was a woman and was there before he started and was still there when he left.

I've had several CVs sent to me that claimed to have been doing jobs I have done at the time I was doing them. I've also seen CVs where people have claimed to manage jobs that I've worked on (they weren't my manager) and who claimed to have graduated at the same time as me on a particular course (there were only 4 of us doing it, and the results are on the internet, FFS)

I knew someone who wrote a paper for a conference that stated he had been the manager who delivered project X, when I had been the manager and he had been in my team. He had to withdraw it.

I also had a guy in a meeting recently who decided to do a presentation on a particular topic, based on a paper that had been written about it. He had fundamentally misunderstood the findings, and when I questioned him, he was very insistent that he was right and I was wrong. Yes, it was my paper.

I don't understand why people do this sort of stuff, particularly when they are working in a quite a specific area, and everyone pretty much knows everyone else in the industry.

I don't understand why people do this sort of stuff, particularly when they are working in a quite a specific area, and everyone pretty much knows everyone else in the industry.

Well it works in politics.

What happened when you called him out on the paper you'd written?

If you ever want a laugh look at the profiles of previous and current colleagues on LinkedIn. Total fabrications and hyperbole all of them.

@bonfireheart

If you ever want a laugh look at the profiles of previous and current colleagues on LinkedIn. Total fabrications and hyperbole all of them.

Which LinkedIn ? My real one or my fake one ?

(For someone who never existed outside of my imagination, it can be fascinating to see how many people my fake LI profile knows. Sorry "knows" ...)

Might do that @DGRossetti 😆