Bullshitter at work - could this be true?

[crochetmonkey74]

There's a woman at work who is basically full of lies. A few people have fallen for it , but in order to have done everything she's done, she would need to be 200 years old.
Her latest tale is that she was caught speeding on the motorway at 120mph but the police let her off with a warning. Surely that cannot be true? I was under the impression that the police always act on speeding that is this dramatic. What do you guys think?

Also, she absolutely did not assist in her own operation after coming round removing her oxygen and tutoring the surgeon. I'm willing to bet money on that

Then I can only hope that your credulity serves you well, and encourage you not to keep your mind so open that your brain falls out 😊.

Yet you don't afford the OP the benefit of the doubt when she said she wasn't jealous, and that she knows the woman is lying.

I couldn't ever be bothered to listen to a bullshitter like that. I know someone who reckons -

her husband is on 1 6-figure salary (he isn't, and she does a cleaning job. Nothing wrong with that, by the way)
She said the pub she occasionally works at has her "name above the door" - of course it hasn't.
Her daughter "taught herself to read at the age of 2". Nonsense.

I simply say "That's nice" when she starts, then change the subject.

Ok, I will raise the white flag and award you with the benefits of any doubts I had.

However, please do come back and share with us when you find out that what she says was true, incredible to believe but true

I must go out in about 7 minutes.

I didn’t carry on reading because my point was that I’ve already stated please carry on reading the thread but leave me alone there seems to be an issue that you have to keep doing this go about you day have a lovely one👍

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Absolutely not i was just saying why do you care meaning let it just go over your head …I don’t appreciate you being vile to me calling me names thankyou …I’m entitled to my opinion and I won’t be giving you any more time enjoy the rest of your day

I find there's always one bullshitter in every workplace..We had one who told us her dad was a millionaire and she lived in a huge manor house. The stories got more and more outlandish and by this point I already knew it wasn't true. I just tended to smile and nod...

Sometimes when ppl lie like that maybe there is something behind it for instance making themselves feel important to others as to get attention..I feel quite sad about ppl like that tbh I would just let it go over my head

This reminds me of a tale told by a friend of mine (also in the 1980's) who had a Mercedes sports car.

He was driving very fast up the A1M late one evening, and was eventually pulled over by a police car, flashing lights and all. The officer said "We had a heck of a job catching up with you"!

Yeah apart from the side eyeing of a few colleagues, we do let it wash over us. We have other things to discuss while the kettle is boiling, like what we are watching on netflix or the time I punched a shark that was attacking prince Charles and he made me the Duchy of cheese which is why I get free cheese forever.

I'll put it to you again

This is a bit weird - you seem to be getting rather over-invested in trying to prove that the colleague may be all of the things she claims and that the OP is somehow 'envious' of her. It's a chat forum - not a cross-examination - and nobody is Head of the Chat Police.

The likelihood of the colleague being all the things the OP says she's claimed to be/has happened is about as likely as Lord Lucan or Shergar reappearing. Does it occur to you that you're wrong, rather than the OP - and perhaps the colleague has an inferiority complex? Keeping on about what 'evidence' the OP has is just ridiculous - are you the colleague?

("I put it to you again, Mr Jones, were you in the vicinity of number 10 Downing Street on the night of the 10th March, wearing yellow socks, a tracksuit and disguised as Boris Johnson?").

Everyone at work is really bloody irritating tho...

My point actually was, what difference does it make, whether this one thing is true. If this one thing is true, it doesn't make everything else true, and vice versa. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day...

Oh! We have one of these: she's simultaneously too poor to buy her lunch but also going on a fabulous holiday which she discusses with her partner on her phone (at great length) during work hours.
She's also constantly "buying" expensive stuff from the internet (also during work time) but she's also very financially embarrassed because her only income is her role in the organisation as relief staff.
Not only that, she is very highly qualified to work in banking and finance, but can't work the simple spread-sheet I made to make evening cashing-up more simple for everyone.
She's been accepted for several high-flying roles after exceptional interviews, yet here she is, 3 years later, still in her relief role with us... She also has one of those "abrasive personalities" which makes her an absolute pain to manage.
People have been known to take leave when they see her name on the rota.

Ugh.

There's no issue. How very peculiar you should think that.

I wrote to you twice and the second time was to answer your question.

Thinking about this I have a seven year old relative who has started boasting to us about how rich his DF is ( he’s not!) and how many thousand tools he has. DF is also “an excellent driver with super quick reactions who can drive right up behind other cars as he can stop so quickly”. He is becoming rather obnoxious. We are trying to work out a solution. He will become very unpopular at school if he carries on. Maybe she is the grown up version of my little relative!

Hahahaha, I used to work with someone like her, every story started with ‘when I was in the army’ - it turned out she had been in the TA about 30 years earlier.

If I told you all the things I've done/messes I've got tangled up in/places I've ended up etc you'd be branding me a bully bullshitter but it's all true! I mean I know these people do exist, who make shit up because they think it makes them seem more interesting but don't assume it's always bullshit

I’d be inclined to tell her about your top-secret exploits with the SAS, and how you’d been shortlisted for a Nobel Prize.

😂😅 Great response - I think Grammarnut might have overlooked this minor detail!

Oh dear, do we need to clear it with Nicetobenice67 first* *before posting anything? There's the rest of us thinking it was....oh, the horror of it! - a chat forum!!!!😂

🤣 that actually sounds more believable than your bullshitting colleague having woken up during her operation to advise the surgeon on it. What a bellend she is.

I'd be tempted to bullshit one up her every time.

Oh what a coincidence, that happened to me too. Everyone clapped and then they kept me awake to give advice on the surgery they were doing in the next room over the intercom.

Oh I wish I knew sometime like this! 😂

I’d have laughed out loud at this and the taking everyone’s pulse Ive have stared at her and smirked.

Dsis told me a tale of a tall storyteller once. Apparently she lived in a penthouse flat and the people above were very noisy. 😂 That was one of her smaller tales