Alright folks, how long have you managed to keep this charade going?
People Who Lied about Their Qualifications. What Do You Do and How Long Have You Been Doing It?
LOrangePotato on 29/07/2024 - 21:00
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I for one confirm and acknowledge that you are indeed an amateur.
Let’s promote him to professional for his honesty
That you JV?
Better to know your limitations. Some of the most vocal here are the least informed.
I should have. Cheaper and would have made 0 difference.
Nobody has ever had the slightest interest in checking my academic record.
I suppose if I had an accreditation like a doctor or an electrician prospective employers might check if you are doing a job that depends on that.
But if you are claiming a degree in arts nobody is ever going to query it.
"claiming a degree in arts"
Would you like fries with that? Sounds the same with and without arts degree
.Yeah, but what if you wanted to say it in Latin :)
I joined bank a couple years ago and they pay for a background check which includes an education one, which includes checking with the institutions.
Checks are standard.
People lie on what they can and cannot do. That cannot be proven until you commence. Of Course they claim that the old job does it differently in order to keep up the lie.
@AS2035: Agree. I was more responding to Mskeggs saying no one has an interest. Maybe they haven’t realised that people have been checking.
@ColtNoir: She probably does not realise.
Police Checks have been in place for years.everything from education, criminal record, bankruptcy etc etc
I love how electricians with data cabling cert can screw up your domestic network cabling just as well as someone who has never done it.
@rentonc when something goes wrong, the electricians will be protected by law because they have that piece of paper where as someone who doesnt will not be. Just because someone can do something doesnt mean that they should unless they are aware of consequence (i know its unfair rule of law but its still a rule).
But if you are claiming a degree in arts nobody is ever going to query it.
I assume the original question was about people claiming qualifications that would help with employment
Anywhere health/safety/insurance is concerned I'd see it as critical, but almost anywhere else
outside of the most physically and mentally demanding rolesshould be reachable through aptitude and independent learning alone
Got a story you'd like to share?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/nt-icac-corrupt-condu…
Result is some NT Gov agencies are required to sight academic records if a successful applicant lists it on their CV, regardless is it is relevant for the position.
This just sounds like you're bad at your job; nothing to do with how you were educated.
Actually, not giving a shit can be a good skill (outside of the consulting room of course). There is a reason why burn out is a huge issue with psychologists.
I am sure more politically correct term is, "self care".
I thought it was because they are not actual medical professionals unlike a psychiatrist? /s
@Analytical Therapist: True, they don't have the luxury of medicating their clients and need to discuss the problems that their clients have as a part of treatment.
It's pegaxs. they're usually a massive troll. I actually thought they disappeared/were permaban'd.
how many pegaxs are there
Lol at all the snowflakes taking this seriously.
By using the term "snowflake" you self-describe yourself as being someone who persists in being purposefully ignorant and arrogantly stupid and over 50.
By whining about the use of the term “snowflake” you self-describe as an entitled snowflake.
By using 2 and's in a row you self describe as someone who gets too upset over small jokes.
Did Muzeeb hit too close to home?
is that how you spell sociopath?
I've done personalised pre-planned funerals for 30 years…. I DGAF about repeat business.
Did he get found out from using too many commas?
And that is what you took from this story?
The extra punctuation did make it difficult to read 🤷♀️
@Jules855: There are four commas. Not exactly excessive and doesn’t make it that hard to follow. It just seems bizarre what people get hung up on. If it annoys you that much I will just unpublished my comment.
@mapax: Amen to that. I have low blood pressure so I get dizzy from both fasting and getting up too fast.
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
All these commas are making it spin
And it's you, Try, making it spin
You're making me dizzy!
People Who Lied about Their Qualifications.
I didn't really write all 118,306 comments.
I've been using cut & paste all along…Everything is a lie…
I didn't really write all 118,306 comments.
Confirmed. You have 118,313 comments.
You have 118k comments in the 15 years you've been on the site.
Works out to be about 21.5 comments per day every day. That's impressive. Do you work here or something?
Wow, new years day 2009 must've been a cracker
if you did cut & paste wouldn’t that make no difference to the total?
I only have a car license but currently captain QANTAS B787's (previously B777 for 15 years)
Diversity hire?
No, probably just identifies as one
One_joke.xlsx
As an actual pilot, I’m both impressed and concerned.
you fly boys crack me up
but i keep telling you i'm not a pilot
Qantas never operated the B777
Took a while for someone to spot my lie
I lived in Canada for years and never got a drivers licence. Failed it twice, although I claim bullshit reasons (once I was merging onto a main road, there was a truck going by so I slowed down to go behind it, instructor said I should have accelerated and overtaken it. Other time was because I didn't indicate passing an illegally parked car on the road).
In the end they introduced reciprocal laws with Australia so I just walked in with my aussie licence and collected my Canadian one.
I still pay for my chartered accountant fees every year despite it having no relevance to my job, I really should start lying about that.
Sort of similar, I took my G1 Canadian licence (learners permit equiv) to a service centre in QLD and got given a P2 licence. I had never passed an actual driving test at that point, just a written one.
I didn't feel safe driving so I took lessons and voluntarily sat the test, but I could easily have gotten away with it.
Pffft Ontario wouldn't give me a reciprocal licence, but New Brunswick did, so after I 'moved' to Fredericton, I ended up with an Ontario Driver's licence…..so silly.
Ironically I know a number of Chartered Accountants who have never paid their fee but are in the industry.
To be honest, the benefit of continuing to pay the annual fee is pretty questionable these days..If you stopped paying post the diploma for the annual membership subscription but still completed the actual Diploma, does it really disqualify you from calling yourself a Chartered Accountant since you've done all the actual educational studies to become one.
I once applied to be a Registrar, to this day I get emails and calls addressing me as Dr Wiadro offering me jobs.
I’m not even qualified to be a doctor.
why did you do that?
i thought it wasn't a doctor job at the time.
APHRA called….they want to speak with you (and asked about your indemnity insurance status…or if you have a few houses situated anywhere in Sydney with the word "Bay" in it to sell in case you decide to take up any of those job offers).
I still don't feel like I am at the native English speaker level (though technically, I have that requirement waived as I've been using English since grade 6 and gotten all the qualifications in Australia). I doubt this feeling would disappear, given how I missed that critical period for language acquisition.
Can you repeat that in English please.
and gotten all the qualifications in Australia
Achievement unlocked: 100% All Australian Qualifications.
Do I get a pop up sayin' "Qualification Down Under" or something?
You'll need to ask your partner for that qualification…
@Chandler: Last thing I would want to see is a pop up from my partner, especially if it is about anything down under, but that's just me. Reminds me too much about Robot Chicken sketch I saw about Halloween.
“Koalifications”
To get my current job I told my employer I had completed a Cert IV in procrastination. But the truth is I never did the course. I might do it next year.
I did not graduate top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I have not been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I don't have over 300 confirmed kills. I am not trained in gorilla warfare and I'm not the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. I'm just a regular internet guy. But whenever someone pisses me off on the internet, I copy and paste my block of text and they all go away 😂. I've been doing it since 2012.
I understood this reference
I am not trained in gorilla warfare
I'm not sure whether that's a win for the gorillas or for you.
Or, as Google might say
Did you mean: guerilla warfare
that is not nearly as impressive as fighting gorillas
and when you want a proper piece of meat you want a good gorilla
Gorillas. Ha.
What about fighting the reigning, defending, currently undefeated champions of Australia. Emus?
If they trained Gorillas to use M16s - now that would be warfare
Too much computer games are bad for your vision…
I said I had a Nobel Prize in physics to score a job at McDonalds. Completely scammed them. Now I'm earning $22/hour and they don't know a thing. Please don't tell them.
You have to bomb like 40 Yemeni weddings to get a Nobel Peace Prize.
Another way is to support your army as it conducts genocide against an ethnic minority.
I just paid to RPL a bunch of quals of which I pretty much have zero experience in.
I did this with uni quals.
I studied a very broad Masters, then used it to RPL as many qualifications as I could to take advantage of my employers education assistance scheme, which paid more than the courses actually cost me. I ended up getting 4 grad certs, 2 grad dips and another bachelor's degree over the course of about 2 1/2 years. I pocketed about 17k more than the courses cost me before they stopped approving them.
What industry/company was this?
Nice try Boss.
People think I have built pyramid and have degree in construction and buildings. But none knows that I'm amatuer ozbargainer…
I once interviewed someone as a final check before they were hired. He proceeded to explain to me a technical project he had implemented, yet he seemed blissfully unaware that I was actually the lead tech from that project and I had never seen or heard of him before.
So…. did they get the job? Lol
surprisingly not. Though I never told the person or let on during the interview. I just informed our HR he was a liar that had not done the work he claimed to have done. No idea if they ever passed that on to him. I was told later he may have attended a technical presentation on the project (while I was away sick) and had gleaned enough info from that to fool other interviewers.
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I once claimed to be an Ozbargain Professional, but I am actually amateur at best.