A bloke I worked with....
Couldn't help himself. I don't know if it was his attempt to 'fit in' or be 'popular' but one of his many claims was that he designed the iMac on his own, and that, 'When I was working on it, I thought it would be good to put a USB port on it. I did and got paid a huge bonus for doing so' - this would, of course be a great boast if it was true, however he was fresh from studying and working in a call center.

Something else he couldn't stop himself from doing was claiming to either own, use to own or had a brother who owned absolutely anything you could get your hands on. Example...

I was building a patio at my house and thought... 'Hmm, it's taking ages using a pick and shovel, I want to get my hands on one of those mini-diggers you can rent!' - I've mused this openly and would you believe it, this lad piped up with, 'My brother has got one of them, he'll lend you his!' - I had grave doubts about it, but he insisted that his brother would deliver it to my house on the Saturday so I could get on with building my patio.

Come Saturday, I'm waiting, the lad from work had my address and knew I would be waiting in for his brother to bring the mini-digger long -even though I was convinced this digger didn't exist.

To cut a really tedious story short, he never came over with a digger.

Back to work on Monday and i've asked him what happened, why didn't his brother show up? - After initially denying we ever had the digger conversation, he said, 'oooh, that was this weekend was it? Sorry, I thought you meant next weekend'.... 'Still, it's too late now anyway, he sold the digger on Sunday as he wants to buy a plane'

I lost my temper with him in the end and sacked him. I then refused to give him a reference, pointing out when he questioned why, 'I don't think it's appropriate, not when you've got Steve Jobs to write one for you'...

His response... 'Yeah, I know that, but they want a personal reference and I thought you'd do it.'

The man was a twunt of the highest order.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 30 Nov 2007, 11:51, Reply)