A Cautionary Tale
A friend of mine who even four years later, has to remain nameless, applied for and got a job as an IT project manager for a less well known telecomms company in the Netherlands. Suffice to say, he blustered and bullshitted on his CV, and alleged all kinds of technical expertise and successes on his CV. Six months into the job, he was exposed as a somewhat silver tongued cavalier who had managed to mis appropriate somewhere in the region of Eur75 million. Cue lots of belated background checks on said friend and his somewhat lesser abilities came to light. A large team of lawyers hove into view over the horizon and there was much discussion and finger pointing going on. At one stage, he was threatened with a prison sentence, but somewhere along the way, the CEO of the company decided that the media exposure may be more damaging than seeing justice done.

Said friend was sent packing with a severe bollocking and invited never to request a reference or work in the field of IT ever again.

Fours years and one nervous breakdown later, he now live's in Canada. He's still not worked, but I believe he's looking for a pump attendant's position somewhere in Alberta.

No doubt he's learn't his lesson.

As for me, I've lost seven jobs from my CV in the last fifteen years, moved dates around, changed the names of smaller companies and alleged liquidation in two instances so no referees could be contacted. Barring that, I never overstate my ability to do my chosen line of work.

You have been warned!!
(frightfullybored, Fri 7 Jul 2006, 12:55, Reply)