Have you ever got caught lying on your resume?

[无名的]

As George Costanza once said. . . it's not a lie if you believe it.

 

[BrokePhiBroke]

As silly as this sounds it pays to LIE. Embellish.
I thought people who were in good positions were there because of "merit".

Couldn't be farther from the truth when you really start conversing with them.

 

[BrokePhiBroke]

Brilliant

Tell those motherfukkers what they want to hear...They do it to their superiors...and they do it to their customers as well

People exaggerate and embellish their roles on projects all the fukking time.

And get this....this is why you should never feel guilty


Companies embellish and lie about job positions all of the time too.....they lie about compensation and realistic promotion opportunities as well

I aint got no problem with folks lying on their resume.......you either get the job done or you cant

Especially when they say "competitive wages".

 

[FatherSimp]

When i wasn't lying on my resume I wasn't getting call backs or interviews but the minute I started to embellish my experience and how long I was at a job for I was getting interviews left and right. Honesty only goes so far in job searches and if you get caught all well on to the next one

 

[Roadside]

As silly as this sounds it pays to LIE. Embellish.
I thought people who were in good positions were there because of "merit".

Couldn't be farther from the truth when you really start conversing with them.

This. A guy who started at work around the same time as me left for another job that payed 40% more. He took a simple thing he did like checking if a user has signed up more than once and is trying to sign up again (for a first user discount) and his CV was talking about how he implemented complex fraud detection that saved the company thousands.

 

[Saiyajin]

 

[BrokePhiBroke]

This. A guy who started at work around the same time as me left for another job that payed 40% more. He took a simple thing he did like checking if a user has signed up more than once and is trying to sign up again (for a first user discount) and his CV was talking about how he implemented complex fraud detection that saved the company thousands.

Lol see. These companies don't give a damn about us. You have to use them to your advantage then move on to better pastures.

 

[Brandsdale]

I personally haven't

If you were caught lying share your story here brehs and let us know how you were caught

i was thinking of doing this only for volunteer jobs and strictly companies i have relation to. My moms works for the city in community relations and a i have 2 friends with their own wedding photography business

 

[Saiyajin]

i was thinking of doing this only for volunteer jobs and strictly companies i have relation to. My moms works for the city in community relations and a i have 2 friends with their own wedding photography business

sounds like you have experience as a wedding photographer then

and have been working in the city for community relations

 

[Brandsdale]

sounds like you have experience as a wedding photographer then

and have been working in the city for community relations

lol they were jus small volunteer gigs that I ACTUALLY did but I stretched THE hell outta the length of time i spent doing them and bullshytted what I did there

 

[SadimirPutin]

This. A guy who started at work around the same time as me left for another job that payed 40% more. He took a simple thing he did like checking if a user has signed up more than once and is trying to sign up again (for a first user discount) and his CV was talking about how he implemented complex fraud detection that saved the company thousands.

That dude deserves fukking daps

sounds like you have experience as a wedding photographer then

and have been working in the city for community relations

Sounds bout right to me

 

[Kenyan West]

Everyone lies. You'd be a fool not to. But to answer the question, yeah, I got caught before. I was unemployed with unemployment running out in 2 months, with rent to pay, 1k in credit card debt, and my phone weeks from being shut off, so my resume was on hyper edition. Interviewed with these four cacs at once, got the job, as an Financial Specialist. Passed the piss test, my homies and my sister acted as managers for the last three jobs on my resume with my inflated titles and salary. My last job, I got fired from, but my homie acted like I was still there. Got through all of the hard shyt. What got me was that on my resume, I was vague with the college experience. I put down that I didnt have the degree, but I was "currently pursuing" thinking that they wouldn't check to see if I was there, like 99% of other companies I've dealt with. With other companies, it was do you have the degree or not. If you have it, we checkin, if not, who gives a shyt.

Three days before I was supposed to start, they called up the college behind my back, verified how many credits I had, called my ass back and rescinded the offer, RIGHT after I turned down another offer that paid more, but it was temp to perm. As you can imagine, I was pisssssed.

Embellished the fukk out of my resume to get my current job, thought I was caught again because they didn't ask me for my supervisors information. But fortunately they used a piss poor background service that probably didn't do shyt. (Aurico). Lying on your resume is only worth it if they ask you to provide the background information and you can talk a good game after a couple days of research. If you can't, then fall back.

 

[Frieza]

Everyone lies. You'd be a fool not to. But to answer the question, yeah, I got caught before. I was unemployed with unemployment running out in 2 months, with rent to pay, 1k in credit card debt, and my phone weeks from being shut off, so my resume was on hyper edition. Interviewed with these four cacs at once, got the job, as an Financial Specialist. Passed the piss test, my homies and my sister acted as managers for the last three jobs on my resume with my inflated titles and salary. My last job, I got fired from, but my homie acted like I was still there. Got through all of the hard shyt. What got me was that on my resume, I was vague with the college experience. I put down that I didnt have the degree, but I was "currently pursuing" thinking that they wouldn't check to see if I was there, like 99% of other companies I've dealt with. With other companies, it was do you have the degree or not. If you have it, we checkin, if not, who gives a shyt.

Three days before I was supposed to start, they called up the college behind my back, verified how many credits I had, called my ass back and rescinded the offer, RIGHT after I turned down another offer that paid more, but it was temp to perm. As you can imagine, I was pisssssed.

Embellished the fukk out of my resume to get my current job, thought I was caught again because they didn't ask me for my supervisors information. But fortunately they used a piss poor background service that probably didn't do shyt. (Aurico). Lying on your resume is only worth it if they ask you to provide the background information and you can talk a good game after a couple days of research. If you can't, then fall back.

Glad to hear it turned out well for you breh

 

[Frieza]

Y'all talking about stretching truths but I've forged a CV that's....more than just stretched. To keep it real, the only truthful things on that CV is my name and my address. I've got a decent job and a decent degree but I want to switch to finance. I've got no formal experience nor do I have academic credentials. I'm currently compiling a list of books and courses to go through for a few months and that should put me on par with your average grad in the field. I'm also gonna apply to grad positions at American and German companies and hope that if shyt goes wrong they won't bother putting the energy into pursuing a legal case against me across the pond.
Any success stories like this?

 

[old_timer]

One time I was interviewing this white kid who was from my alma mater..

He had a specific academic award listed under the education section
I was like and started reminiscing with soft questions (small talk ice breaking)
Because I had won the exact same award fifteen years earlier
The kid was like then then
Cause it was clear he was lying..
(the award is given at a special ceremony the night before graduation by the Dean, it is actually a consolation prize for an even more prestigious award, etc)
I was like why even try that lie
Our school name by itself is good enough to get entry level jobs

He claimed confusion and/or proofreading error

I didn't even bother with the actual interview
Invoked the mercy rule and just walked him back to the waiting area