Me: “I’m the best neurosurgeon in the entire southern hemisphere”
Interviewer: “Wow! You’re hired! Welcome aboard. Can you start tomorrow?”
The next day: “Haha bonesaw goes brrrrrrr”
Comment on The unemployment cycle
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Normalize lying to employers.
They lie to you all the time so fuck it.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How many employers even check to see if you went to college unless you got a higher level degree? Maybe a few will ask for transcripts, but it’s rare/
MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they do background checks, they all do.
I used to work as a team lead on a call center help desk that had literally no requirements to get the job outside of a 10 question “technical interview” that features questions such as “can you name three programs that are a part of the Microsoft office suite” and periodically we would have new hires get fired once their background check returned that they lied about having a degree that they don’t actually have.
I don’t know why they lied - degrees aren’t even requested or required for getting the job, but they did and lying on anything that came up on the background check was an immediate termination
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve had jobs with background checks and they still didn’t care. Maybe in technical fields they do, but I’m in media/marketing/advertising design and production and they have never given a shit.
scottywh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In having worked for numerous employees for over 26 years in I.T. I’ve only once ever been asked for my transcript.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 8 months ago
I work for a background checking company… it’s not even close to rare. I know clients that check your education records even if you don’t have any.