They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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If anyone is curious, they will fire you if you fabricate this level of education. Lie on your resume? Sure. Totally fabricate education and experience you don't have? Fruad.
To be fair there’s a whole lot of wealthy people like Trump who bought their degree anyway
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Justin Fulcher agrees!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/
My unpopular opinion (and I'll eat the downvotes) is that CV fraudsters don't get prosecuted nearly enough.
It's not just faceless billionaire companies you're fucking over, it's the other candidates who actually put in the effort to become competent at the job you lied to get.
I'll never get my head around the popularity of the idea that lying on a CV doesn't make you a liar.
Job candidates didn't start this war. Companies want ever more ludicrous requirements (so they'd have to interview fewer people), so the average CV expands to match it.
And while you may get caught with claiming to have a degree, you can certainly embellish the rest of it. Used an Excel spreadsheet? You're now a data analyst. Dabbled in Access? Congratulations, you're now an experienced database administrator.
And if you get found out and fired, so what? So did hundreds of people who did have all the qualifications and experience. You now have a bit more, so you know what not to do next time.
Take what you can from corporations, because they're certainly trying to take all they can from you.
Used an Excel spreadsheet? You’re now a data analyst. Dabbled in Access? Congratulations, you’re now an experienced database administrator.
I feel personally attacked and simultaneously validated by your analysis.
When you are starting out in an hiring environment like this, you pretty much have to do this, but you should also be prepared to back it up.
25 years ago during a major tech downturn I said I had experience with C for my first programming job (I didn’t, but I knew others). Before I started I studied my ass off and learned it so I wouldn’t look like a fool on the job.
End result was that when I started, I knew C.
Don’t lie about stuff that is easy to verify like a degree from Harvard. That is just asking to be blackballed.
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What's the consequences of not lying on your resume? you can't get a good job.
What's the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.
What's the consequences of not getting caught? You get paid to do the job that didn't require the degree to begin iwth.
The consequences are the same whether or not you do it. The benefits greatly outweigh the risks.
What's the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.
I used to work as a trade union officer representing people at disciplinaries. I've represented several people over the years who were sacked for lying on their CVs.
Not only did they lose their job, but they'll get a "sacked for gross misconduct" reference from that employer making it much more difficult to get another job. Those in regulated roles also ended up with gross misconduct records with the regulator, making it essentially impossible to work in that field again.
So no, it's not a risk free game.
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You're not wrong, but I'd want to see more prosecution of job posting lies at the same time. Employers frequently add impossible requirements so they can hire H1Bs instead.
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No one checks. No one questions.
Any Fortune 500 company is going to check, particularly if you're aiming for a job in upper management.
And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.
And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.
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Plenty of jobs outside of Fortune 500 garbage.
They dont, i work for one
Maybe yours doesn’t, but plenty do.
Source: have worked at multiple companies interviewing people who would have been promising candidates, but got bounced during the screening process.
Even if you don't agree with this guy, you have to admit his credentials are impressive!
Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!
It's why I'm stuck in a factory. I just don't have it in me to bullshit/lie. I have a friend who worked his way into his career by saying whatever he needed to say and he makes 3x my salary.
I wish I had no morals or anxiety....
The way I see it is that they're looking to exploit me for as much as they can get, so I have no obligation to treat them with any more respect than that. I don't lie, but I have no problem taking a single instance where I worked next to a couple newbies for an hour and gave them pointers and turning it into "trained and oversaw new hires to ensure proper workflow protocol" on my resume.
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I'm pretty sure this is the opening plot to the TV show Community.
I thought you have a bachelor's from Columbia?
And now I have to get one from America. And it can't be an e-mail attachment.
Things techbros imagine they've invented:
- Trains
- Friendship
- Fraud
Is anyone gonna tell him that they just check after messaging people ?
We don't check. I don't really care as long as they can do the job. But believing they have a degree is useful for telling clients who specifically sometimes ask about the degrees of the people they'll be working with.
We also don't DM people trying to recruit people tho.
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Please advise, my landlord won't accept LinkedIn DMs as rent payment.
fire him; hire a new landlord
But my MSc was fully funded and I got to spend a year in cheap accommodation with subsidised beer, free fibre internet, and local Counter-Strike opponents.
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i onced followed someone profile on linkein i was with in my las semester almost a decade ago, and he was totally bsing his lab experience, because he told me before hand he dint have much or any lab experience, then every semester i saw him adding 1 years to his resume, then after he added 2 years, he was eventually hired. yea you have to bs your way.
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