Freep on False Resumes: EVERYBODY DOES IT.

[elehhhhna]

Michael Brown has been officially 'thrown under the bus'.

But even if he did 'fudge' a little on his credentials, he's not the only one who has made themselves out to be something they're not.


Lying about military records have been a favorite among cheaters, particularly because no one wants to challenge the honor of someone who fought to defend our country.

At Fox News, the colonel who wasn't
L.A. judge charged with lying about his past
Executives at major corporations have been embroiled in scandals by misstating earnings, taking kickbacks, and...lying on their resumes.

Why do so many executives lie about their educations?
The costs of resume falsification
False credentials, real problems
Know someone with a degree from Columbia State University? It's probably a fake, federal authorities say.


Falsifying Degrees Is Becoming a Rampant Problem
An advertisement for fake college diplomas
And it doesn't end there. A review of 2.6 million job applications in 2002 revealed that 44% contained a lie or two.

Wondering what the most common resume lie is? Compensation, job tenure, and reasons for leaving your last job.

What does your resume look like?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481249/posts#comment?q=1

[Beaverhausen]

1. accountability means nothing to these people

that is why we are in the mess we are in.

[ck4829]

2. "Everybody does it"... I thought RW'ers hated 'Moral Relativism'

[elehhhhna]

9. ha. i thought they invented it!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Bull puckey! Not everyone does it and it is not ok!

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[ixion]

4. okay, if your resume is supposed to actually count for something...

then you don't lie. Period. End of discussion, AFAIK.

[electropop]

5. Every Freeper does it.

Starting with their top boy fudging his deserter status from the Air National Guard.

[berni_mccoy]

20. took the words right off my keyboard!

[nyhuskyfan]

6. The Notre Dame football coach was canned for resume padding...

Granted Notre Dame football is a big deal, but I would hope that FEMA would be considered more important.

[bigbrother05]

7. REPUBLICAN VALUES n/t

[zbdent]

8. Yeah, but try being a Clinton appointee

and you see how much a typographical error gets away with . . .

[Coventina]

10. Dang! I'm glad I heard this now! Just as I'm rewriting my resume!

:woohoo:

Let's see, I got my BA at ummm......Princeton

And I'm about to get my MA from....uh.....Harvard

I was Valedictorian of my High School class.

I spent 4 years working in the British Museum.....

well, you get the idea....

[meganmonkey]

11. Damn - this is waaay different than using fancy words

for mundane tasks (which I am guilty of, i.e. "coordinating inpatient consultations" = I get a fax, then I call the doctor and tell him the room number ;) - a temp job many years ago) - this guy is the HEAD of a MAJOR FEDERAL AGENCY that is supposed to PROTECT AMERICA!!!

:puke:

[Mutley]

12. Oh, puke!

To: John Jorsett

I don't believe President Bush would have removed Brown without cause. President Bush is too loyal to do that.

6 posted on 09/09/2005 12:13:59 PM PDT by gondramB
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This is more disgusting than watching newly in love 16 year olds grope each other.

[skooooo]

13. must be ok if "everyone" does it....

Personally, the thought never occurred to me.

[LynzM]

17. Same here

"Everybody" lies about a lot of things, apparently. Geez.

[bluestateguy]

14. I wish they would have accepted that defense during Monicagate

It would have saved this country a whole lot of trouble.

[Cleita]

15. Funny how conservatives have no problem with lying on their

resumes. I know I always emphasized my good points and downplayed the rest, but I never lied, although I had Repub friends tell me that I should've said I got my BA. (I didn't and I didn't claim to.)

[eleny]

16. "Everbody" is NOT Homeland Security

[Walt Starr]

18. CORRECTION: All Reichwing FREAKS LIE on their resumes.

Liberals tell the truth.

[neuvocat]

19. I never lied on my resume.

Sooner or later you're gonna get caught, so don't do it.

[marbuc]

30. I don't either

I don't post anything I cannot back up in an interview or down the line if it ever comes up. I may embellish a wee bit, but I would not even consider anything that can be checked (i.e., fake honors, positions I did not hold, etc.)

[DS1]

21. The only people I've know that do it are scumbags and cheats.

Therefore, Freeps are scumbags and cheats, but that's no surprise.

[shaniqua6392]

22. That is because they do not really work at anything.

They just want to take and take. My Repug brother once asked me to type up his resume for a job at Ford Motor Co. and when I noticed he put down that he graduated from the U of Michigan, I refused to even type it for him. He had only taken one basic algebra class and he flunked it!!

[Divernan]

23. The federal govt. does deep background checks for security clearance on

even low level jobs - applicants must give contact information on three friends - not relatives or co-workers who agree to be interviewed by the fed investigative group. I agreed to do this for the daughter of some neighbors. I've known her and her family for over 20 years. The fed showed up at my house unannounced, expecting to be immediately invited in - which I did cause I wanted to help this woman get a job. He was clearly checking ME out to - where I worked, what I did, marital status.
Then he started grilling me on her education, background, job history, where she had lived, her brother and sisters and what they did and where they lived, her parents, how much she drank, if she ever used drugs, her style in iinteracting with others.
I was exhausted by the time he left.

[marbuc]

26. How much she drank?

Note to self: don't use drinking buddies as references on federal applications.

[young_at_heart]

24. Does anyone have a copy of Bush's resume?

I'll bet it was padded.

[alarimer]

25. Bush did it too

or maybe it was that his records conveniently "disappeared".

I think it is a bad idea to lie on a resume. I am not going to say that all lies are equally bad but most lies will come back to haunt you for the simple reason that it is harder to keep track of the lies you tell people. Only freepers lie on resumes anyway LOL.

[Enraged_Ape]

27. No, only losers with no accomplishments or integrity do

And that's close to 100% of Freeperville, so I can see why they would think that.

[stevietheman]

28. Well, I think employers _assume_ this, so those who don't lie...

on their resumes are oftentimes screwed, IMHO. I'm not saying that lying is right, as I don't do it, but I think some facts can be creatively exaggerated or reframed without lying.

Further, compensation and reasons for leaving jobs don't belong on a resume anyway. It should only be about what you did and when, along with skill sets and educational background.

[AlCzervik]

29. The freeps better hope their Doctors, Dentists(iknow freepsdonthaveteeth)

and accountants haven't padded their resumes.

[yankeedem]

31. I found this line interesting

"Lying about military records have been a favorite among cheaters, particularly because no one wants to challenge the honor of someone who fought to defend our country."

cough,Swift boat, cough. Did these idiots sleep through last August?