Many years ago i lied to get a sick day. I said I had a case of the runny bottom, I in fact did not have the shits, I just didn't want to to work in the rain all day. I figured this was a pretty good way to get a free day off. My boss at the time didn't believe me and asked for proof like a docs note or something. I obviously didn't have that so I did something else. I went to the kitchen, put the kettle on, grabbed a large bowl and filled it with gravy granuals. I then proceeded to make a very lumpy gravy and poured it into the toilet, took a picture and sent it to them with the rather audacious quote of "Is that proof enough?". He bought it and anytime I took a day off with the shits in future, genuine or not, he never questioned me. If your reading this Michael, its been nearly 15 years and I am still not sorry.
@Ianjdgale Why is this an issue. Everybody has an off day every once in a while. I have "mental health days" - the staff comes to me when they are not their best. And they get a little time off with pay. As long as no one abuses the privilege, it is all good. Staff is happy and know I have their back and are always happy to pitching when we have a person down. Provide constructive feedback and give them raises so they have a goal for the following year. And when they wish to move on, wish them well. Most still call me. In my world, it is better to be kind and understanding than ruling with fear and intimidation.
With my first job, I had to work shifts. My shift was on the weekend, but my friends invited me on a boat trip at the same time. It was a pure coincidence that I had a minor car accident on Friday-nothing serious, just a small scratch. I took advantage of the situation and lied to my boss, making the accident sound worse. It helped that my voice was shaking a bit. My boss thought I was in the hospital, but I was actually relaxing on a private island with friends, where I connected with one of them really well. We've been together for 21 years and married for 15 years now. 😅 No regrets about lying
I was working at an airport as a cargo ground handling lead during Covid. We were extremely busy during that time and all requested time off was always denied. Since we were expected to work during Covid and at a higher risk of getting infected, if we tested positive we got a minimum week off paid. I called off saying I had Covid and produced a fake positive test. I got the week off and enjoyed the free vacation time.
I was working as the Head receiver in the warehouse of a very busy retail store. I had gotten my sister a job there as a cashier/stocker. One day I go into work and my manager tells me shes sorry for my loss. I thanked her but inside I’m wondering to myself who died. As more and more coworkers come in everybody is giving condolences. I pull a very good work friend to the side and I ask him who died. He said your grandmother passed last night. He was working mid shift and he said my sister called in crying and took the night off. I must have had this puzzled look on my face. I checked my phone. No texts from my family. Hmmmm So I call my mom and casually ask her how grandma is doing. Mom says fine. My friend starts laughing. He said I looked so confused. I had to take a bereavement day to keep my sisters lie a secret.
I didn't lie but an interviewer in Texas asked me if I was bilingual. Malicious compliance ensued on my part. I said yes. She asked me a question in Spanish. I answered in German. She said, "I thought you said you spoke Spanish." I said, "No, you asked me if I am bilingual. I am, I speak English and German." She got angry and said, "But I MEANT do you speak Spanish!" I replied that that was what she should have asked. There are more than two languages in existence. Needless to say I did not get the job but I was not disappointed. I have no desire to work for an employer with poor communication skills or who is illiterate, not knowing what the word bilingual even means. Or who has an anger issue. BTW, she was Hispanic and I suspect racist and possibly sexist. Her entire attitude reeked of wanting another Hispanic female, rather than a competent nurse.
I live in Belgium, a country with two national languages. When people ask me if I am bilingual I also say yes. I don't speak French, but my Dutch and english are good!
One of my coworkers told my boss that he was heading out to look at a project. Instead, he went to the grand opening of a huge store, the first in the area. He was in the middle of a crowd of a thousand people. The next day, his boss posted on the cork board a large photo of the crowd from the local paper, with the caption "Where's Waldo?" . My coworker was dead center and easily recognizable in the photo.
Another big lie is if you do good in school you will get a good job and be able to buy a house and afford a good life and a great retirement. What a load of BS that was
And no employer does that in a meeting. Not unless it’s a one man band, any place that has a level or management would never do that. The person you get to speak to does not have the power to make those promises
I had a plumber who asked a week off because his mother passed away. His employer gave the week, but then called his previous employer and asked if he had ever taken bereavement leave. The previous employer said he gave the plumber a week off because his mother passed. So the current employer called another previous employer and found out that one also gave him a week off because his mother had passed away. That poor woman died THREE TIMES!!! Needless to say, he was fired for lying
@@AJ-ei3eeYes and no. Where we worked it was push push push. People can't do that. I gave them "mental health" days. I didn't mark them "out", they had a day of rest and in so much better spirits. If I had to, I would do it a million times over. Now work at a place where conditions are perfect and nobody has to lie. Nobody abused the privilege.
The Lasik one, you just come back that Monday to work, _"I can't believe they canceled my procedure! They said I had a mild eye infection, 'corneo-something', and that I'd have to reschedule! Like, they couldn't just give me eyedrops or something??"._ And why didn't you come in? Well, I was just so pist that I wouldn't have been able to concentrate on work, and my eyes *were* kinda pinchy... Gotta know when to double-down to sell the lie.
I pretend I was having a stomach bug on the day of my first embryo transfer. I had recently switched job and was still on probation, so not ready to say I was actively trying to conceive. I was super worried as my previous boss was staunchluy anti-baby and anti-PTO. Sadly, the transfer failed, but luckily, I've been at this job for years now and they've been extremely supportive of my infertily and now parenting journey 🥰
My mother felt that my entire life was dependent on getting a degree. It wasn't. She told my son he was a disappointment because he didn't know what he wanted to do and want willing to waste the money taking courses willy nilly. He is now a journeym 9:10 an Millwright with a Canadian red seal. He can work in every province without the need to re-certify. I'm so proud of him and my mother lost about 6 years of seeing him as he avoided her at all costs.
This reminds of where the opposite was the case, an American drug company hire a Canadian call centre to handle Spanish calls, and they were completely unprepared when every one on the phone was a native Spanish speaker with okay English skills. But they only answered Spanish calls, so mandate filled, sometimes speaking to the English only staff was hit or miss.
Many many years ago, I was working at a small company. My boss knew I was fairly good at what I did. She tried to get me promoted to the same level as the rest of the staff instead of being a Junior. Her boss said no. No college degree, no promotion. In fact, he told me to my face I was the only person in the company that didn't have a college degree and he never would have agreed to hire me if it wasn't for the fact I had started as a temp and they could tell I'd be an asset. It wasn't a job where you needed a degree and to be honest I probably learned more on the job than I did with the meaningless piece of paper that I now have. Loved the boss though and would have worked for her again in an instant.
It's a somewhat common place in Hollywood to say that you can do X on your Resume and then get trained to do X after you are Hired for the part. Example: Erik Estrada didn't know how to ride a motorcycle when he was hired for CHIP's but immediately went to school for it once he got the part. Also we had a guy call in saying his mother had died and was giving a week's bereavement leave. 3 years later his Dead Mother called trying to track him down while he was on vacation. Come to find out that he was in Jail for a Drug Charges both of those times. They fired him after working there for 15 years.
I’m 56…did an interview the other day and the employer asked me what motivates me to work… apparently liking air conditioning, electricity and pooping inside was not the answer they were looking for.
I should put on an application, "skilled parachuteless sky diver". And when pressed for details, "well maybe not skilled, but I'm sure I'd kill at this."
On my second job when I was 18 working night shift at Tesco, to stack shelves, whilst I was at University they asked 'What was my favourite movie?' I could not think of one as I am more of a music guy, and I opened my mouth and said 'This is England' 2006 version. They were stunned but I somehow I still got the job.
@@TheWoodTink It being very political and racist is why. It just happened to be that is was the last film I watched with my room mate as they HAD to watch it as part of their film studies
While this wasn't when I was working as such, I remember one year waking up on my birthday feeling really ill - like I was going to be sick. I was never the sort of kid to fake illness to avoid school, so my mum called the school to let them know that I was ill. Later in the day, I felt better, and my aunt (who was visiting for my birthday week, and usually lived nearly 200 miles away) asked if I felt well enough to go birthday shopping in town - I agreed, and while in the centre of the town, I spot my headmistress crossing the road - and me, in my innocence, went up to her to say "hello", never realising just how bad it would look that I was out shopping on my birthday, having been reported as off sick for the day...
I called in sick one April morning in 1989. I actually was suffering from a moderate case of hay fever at the time. I decided maybe I should spend the day somewhere I could get some fresh air. So I went to that afternoon's major league baseball game played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, a stadium notorious for strong winds coming in off the bay. Found out later that my company's entire executive team attended the same game. Fortunately there were about 20,000 spectators in attendance, so I did not get caught.
It's so refreshing to see that some of the old applying for a job protocols are being thrown out with the trash. Some of these were from the middle of the last century. I know because so am I. Ha! Some of my unfavorites: The dance about revealing salary. What a colossal waste of time; treating the potential boss like some kind of God who has ultimate power over your life - for MONEY! ; thinking that feeling bad over being disrespected just meant you needed to "learn how to take it," because you "just need to grow up" because no one is going to "sugar coat it for you." True, you do need to learn to be resilient in the adult world and self-regulate. But it shouldn't feel like a frat house hazing.
In all honesty, I don't think school grades should be needed in standard jobs. They're just memory tests. I did shit and yet I'm in a place working alongside university graduates all because I told them in my interview that I am willing to learn exactly how they want me to do the job 😂 They took a chance on me and now I'm one of the top performers
All this video has done is made me realize that I need to start lying because that's how you get ahead it's just hard for me to do that because I was always raised not to lie
When I was 22 I worked for aviva on car insurance. Some reason I told them my steady GF was pregnant in my initial interview (nerves?!?) so had to follow that through! 6 months later……. I’m on paid paternity leave 😂 Month and a half paid leave later I put my notice in I couldn’t keep that up for a career!
When I was 16, I worked in fast food and always had to close on weekends. We lived in a tiny town where everyone knew everybody else. I wanted to go to a party, last minute, so I told them I had to leave because a car fell on my dad. He came in the next day. Nobody ever said a word to me about it...
LOL here is one for you. I had a friend that used to work for a supermarket, a few times he had to stock the frozen food section which I guess he didn't like to do and when he wanted the day off he would mix up a bit of oatmeal and then pretend to throw up in front of the manager or whoever and they would send him home for the day thinking he was sick.😂
I’m Australian and uni degrees are not overly important here, or they weren’t in my time. My sisters and I never went to uni and all of us have had excellent well paid jobs. Employers here are more interested in whether or not you can do the job well, degree or not. It has never hindered me at all, I worked for the police and the Federal Court of Australia. A degree was never mentioned when being interviewed for either job.
I had a line manager who had very clearly lied about his web development skills., I was on my placement year at uni and had done rudimentary web dev and I was 10 times more competent than him. His job - Web dev. It was my job too. But I had to correct everything he had done. In the end HIS line manager came to me and said "is he a bullshitter?" I nodded.
I applied for a job once, told them I loved the company and wanted to work my way up through the ranks from the floor. They said oh no, we want people who just want to work the floor and stay there. It was a factory making string. I had a college degree. I didn’t think they would believe me if I said I just wanted to work the floor forever. If I had known I would have lied, but it was too late.
I exaggerated my supervisor experience I need to explain I said I was till supervisor at large supermarket I was what I didn’t explain was it was graveyard shift only self service and I wasn’t in charge of people
Lol that's nothing, my part time bar supervisor work turned into basically an event co-ordinator with managerial duties by the time my cv was done with it
In the public sector, it's very hard to deny someone a language bonus after they've gotten previously due to the agency belatedly finding out that the person did not meet all of the contractual qualifications in order to receive the bonus. I remember with one person, the matter ultimately had to be decided in front of a labor friendly EEOC board (the agency won).
When I was about 22 I also killed off a grandparent. My boyfriend suggested saying my granny has died but since I still had a living granny I thought that was just tempting fate a bit much. I told them my grandpa had died. The next day back at work the boys I didn't like liked at me very sympathetically and asked if I was ok. "Sure" I said. "I'm sorry about your grandpa " she said. "Oh yes, well, I'm managing." I'm now 52 and never have considered using such an excuse again. I felt awful. When I had to call into work at 27 and tell a different boss in a different company my dad had been killed in a car crash and had to almost walk him through giving me the time of because he was in such shock, I felt that was karma kicking my arse. (Not my dad dying, just the awkward conversation).
In the Entertainment business, there is a saying. Don't ask an actor if they can do something, they will always say yes. My drama teacher in high school even told those that were interested in pursuing acting as a career to do this.
I find it pretty ironic that you are okay with the person at 4:20 telling lies to get a summer job. How would you react to a company doing the same? Offer a job to a person. Let them alter their plans as they think they have a job. Maybe even let them turn down other jobs in the meantime. And then in two or three months when they got through the busy season or that backlog of work that had been piling up, they terminate the new employee as they are no longer needed. I suspect you might not be nearly as accepting of a business that did that to an employee.
Ive been passed over for a promotion due to not finishing the certification for my job I did go back and finish it but i stopped doing all the extra work i was doing.
I phoned up pretending to be ill, unfortunately having an iPhone I pressed the lock button, but the call never disconnected, I then said to my friend that’s how you do it and felt smug until they phoned me back and told me they heard everything. It was a really crappy job so I didn’t want to carry on there for much longer.
There's a legend at my job about a guy who used his brother's credentials to get a manager position. Deception was discovered not long after he started. How wild is that?
Not that I was caught, just that I am always open during interviews when it comes to my education that I havent finished it. And somehow years later I am still within the business and seems that I have someone on my side to try and get me an even higher position all of a sudden :)
I did the revers, I did not let on I could driver a tractor, went months until the guy who did drive it around, left it in the barn aisle, blocking horses in their stalls and the guy was not on the property,,,, the horses had to get out so I had to move the tractor and the secrete was out
We fired a woman that claimed her grandmother died and she (the employee) didn't have any vacation or berevement time built back up. She was granted unpaid leave for the absence (a week). Come to find out she went with her boyfriend to Paris for a vacation. She stupidly posted photos to her Facebook which one of the office employees, her enemy as it turned out, discovered. When she was called on it, she doubled down and said the funeral was in France. We called her bluff and said we needed the obituary in both French and English and it better reference her (the employee) by name as a survivor. Gave her two days to get it, only crickets. Terminated.
Funny that J-Lo said skydiving. I signed up for skydiving club in college.. mentioned to mom that I was only "thinking of it" because she then expressly said that was the only club which was a definite NO. So I think my NO skydiving lie makes up for J-Lo's YES skydiving lie in the end. It's a karmic wash.
I really don't think it's weird that a company would want to hire people who want to stay long term above those who just want to work for a few months then quit!
See employers need to stop discriminating against autistics. My brain is way too literal. I say things exactly as they are, and I interpret everything people say exactly as they say, which can be frustrating, but if you tell me to be at work at 8 am, I will be at my desk and signing on at 8 am. That said, if you tell me to come to a meeting at 1 pm, and then you are not there at exactly 1 pm or earlier, I will call you ass out on it if you are the person who told me to be there because you are wasting my work time to get my work done. I will attempt to do it tactfully, but it will probably come out bluntly. That said, every boss I have ever worked for knew exactly where I stood and what was going on with my work.
When I worked at burger king I lied to the company about being part of a union to get a pay rise. Only got caught when the company franchise got bought by another company. Then I found a real union and got my pay rise back 😅😅
I found myself drumming in a modern jazz quintet. The most boring men I've ever gigged with. That didn't last long. Punk band after that, PsychoNormal and his Stiff Victims!
I imidately thought of that interview taken at Taylor Swift concert where the person had lied being sick so she could attend the concert, so she had to use blanket over her head while being interviewed: ua-cam.com/video/GJ2Z-05U-go/v-deo.htmlsi=i0wgFb0TmwbCh6-C
I disagree on the education part. I'm highly educated and have had to constantly explain to and correct the basics to coworkers that have worked their way up. It takes time away from me doing my own job. It annoys me when people lie and steal jobs from people that have put themselves trough school.
@@carolinebjerkelund767 Is this the day you learn that people from countries that don't have English as their native language, also use the internet? English is my third language, I think I'm doing quite well actually.
Many years ago i lied to get a sick day. I said I had a case of the runny bottom, I in fact did not have the shits, I just didn't want to to work in the rain all day. I figured this was a pretty good way to get a free day off. My boss at the time didn't believe me and asked for proof like a docs note or something. I obviously didn't have that so I did something else. I went to the kitchen, put the kettle on, grabbed a large bowl and filled it with gravy granuals. I then proceeded to make a very lumpy gravy and poured it into the toilet, took a picture and sent it to them with the rather audacious quote of "Is that proof enough?". He bought it and anytime I took a day off with the shits in future, genuine or not, he never questioned me. If your reading this Michael, its been nearly 15 years and I am still not sorry.
😅That's a good one
😂
Genius level 😛
I hope you didn’t get paid?
@Ianjdgale Why is this an issue. Everybody has an off day every once in a while.
I have "mental health days" - the staff comes to me when they are not their best. And they get a little time off with pay. As long as no one abuses the privilege, it is all good.
Staff is happy and know I have their back and are always happy to pitching when we have a person down.
Provide constructive feedback and give them raises so they have a goal for the following year.
And when they wish to move on, wish them well.
Most still call me. In my world, it is better to be kind and understanding than ruling with fear and intimidation.
With my first job, I had to work shifts. My shift was on the weekend, but my friends invited me on a boat trip at the same time. It was a pure coincidence that I had a minor car accident on Friday-nothing serious, just a small scratch. I took advantage of the situation and lied to my boss, making the accident sound worse. It helped that my voice was shaking a bit. My boss thought I was in the hospital, but I was actually relaxing on a private island with friends, where I connected with one of them really well. We've been together for 21 years and married for 15 years now. 😅
No regrets about lying
That is a lovely story. Thank you for sharing.
I was working at an airport as a cargo ground handling lead during Covid. We were extremely busy during that time and all requested time off was always denied. Since we were expected to work during Covid and at a higher risk of getting infected, if we tested positive we got a minimum week off paid. I called off saying I had Covid and produced a fake positive test. I got the week off and enjoyed the free vacation time.
That's one way to get some time off
I was working as the Head receiver in the warehouse of a very busy retail store. I had gotten my sister a job there as a cashier/stocker.
One day I go into work and my manager tells me shes sorry for my loss. I thanked her but inside I’m wondering to myself who died.
As more and more coworkers come in everybody is giving condolences. I pull a very good work friend to the side and I ask him who died.
He said your grandmother passed last night. He was working mid shift and he said my sister called in crying and took the night off.
I must have had this puzzled look on my face. I checked my phone. No texts from my family. Hmmmm
So I call my mom and casually ask her how grandma is doing. Mom says fine.
My friend starts laughing. He said I looked so confused.
I had to take a bereavement day to keep my sisters lie a secret.
I didn't lie but an interviewer in Texas asked me if I was bilingual. Malicious compliance ensued on my part. I said yes. She asked me a question in Spanish. I answered in German. She said, "I thought you said you spoke Spanish." I said, "No, you asked me if I am bilingual. I am, I speak English and German." She got angry and said, "But I MEANT do you speak Spanish!" I replied that that was what she should have asked. There are more than two languages in existence.
Needless to say I did not get the job but I was not disappointed. I have no desire to work for an employer with poor communication skills or who is illiterate, not knowing what the word bilingual even means. Or who has an anger issue.
BTW, she was Hispanic and I suspect racist and possibly sexist. Her entire attitude reeked of wanting another Hispanic female, rather than a competent nurse.
I live in Belgium, a country with two national languages. When people ask me if I am bilingual I also say yes. I don't speak French, but my Dutch and english are good!
One of my coworkers told my boss that he was heading out to look at a project.
Instead, he went to the grand opening of a huge store, the first in the area. He was in the middle of a crowd of a thousand people. The next day, his boss posted on the cork board a large photo of the crowd from the local paper, with the caption "Where's Waldo?" . My coworker was dead center and easily recognizable in the photo.
The biggest lie is “work hard and do well, and you will get pay rises and promotions”
Another big lie is if you do good in school you will get a good job and be able to buy a house and afford a good life and a great retirement.
What a load of BS that was
@@richb1576 mate. So true
@@Lee-pf2uvlol. I simply don’t believe you. No employer does that upfront
And no employer does that in a meeting.
Not unless it’s a one man band, any place that has a level or management would never do that. The person you get to speak to does not have the power to make those promises
Hhahahha 😂😂😂 yes
I had a plumber who asked a week off because his mother passed away. His employer gave the week, but then called his previous employer and asked if he had ever taken bereavement leave. The previous employer said he gave the plumber a week off because his mother passed. So the current employer called another previous employer and found out that one also gave him a week off because his mother had passed away. That poor woman died THREE TIMES!!! Needless to say, he was fired for lying
_"She got better."_
That's horrible 😢
@@AJ-ei3eeYes and no. Where we worked it was push push push. People can't do that. I gave them "mental health" days. I didn't mark them "out", they had a day of rest and in so much better spirits. If I had to, I would do it a million times over.
Now work at a place where conditions are perfect and nobody has to lie. Nobody abused the privilege.
What the hell? Why would the employer call a previous employer to ask about that?! That’s ridiculous and (as far as I know) illegal
Depends on your state. No two are alike.
The Lasik one, you just come back that Monday to work, _"I can't believe they canceled my procedure! They said I had a mild eye infection, 'corneo-something', and that I'd have to reschedule! Like, they couldn't just give me eyedrops or something??"._
And why didn't you come in? Well, I was just so pist that I wouldn't have been able to concentrate on work, and my eyes *were* kinda pinchy... Gotta know when to double-down to sell the lie.
Funny come back, my thought was they could just wear contacts instead!!
I pretend I was having a stomach bug on the day of my first embryo transfer. I had recently switched job and was still on probation, so not ready to say I was actively trying to conceive. I was super worried as my previous boss was staunchluy anti-baby and anti-PTO.
Sadly, the transfer failed, but luckily, I've been at this job for years now and they've been extremely supportive of my infertily and now parenting journey 🥰
My mother felt that my entire life was dependent on getting a degree. It wasn't. She told my son he was a disappointment because he didn't know what he wanted to do and want willing to waste the money taking courses willy nilly. He is now a journeym 9:10 an Millwright with a Canadian red seal. He can work in every province without the need to re-certify. I'm so proud of him and my mother lost about 6 years of seeing him as he avoided her at all costs.
Ooh red seal makes decent money! I tried to get my husband to get his certification but he says he's too old for it now. I'm proud of your son.!
@@vellathewench Thank you. He worked hard and was in the top 1% of his class. His wife and kids will live comfortably. I'm so very proud of him. ❤️❤️
Lying to get a job is on the lazy manager, not wanting to do another job interview when you leave
"Of course I like working with horses!" Just before filming Braveheart! 😋
This reminds of where the opposite was the case, an American drug company hire a Canadian call centre to handle Spanish calls, and they were completely unprepared when every one on the phone was a native Spanish speaker with okay English skills. But they only answered Spanish calls, so mandate filled, sometimes speaking to the English only staff was hit or miss.
Many many years ago, I was working at a small company. My boss knew I was fairly good at what I did. She tried to get me promoted to the same level as the rest of the staff instead of being a Junior. Her boss said no. No college degree, no promotion. In fact, he told me to my face I was the only person in the company that didn't have a college degree and he never would have agreed to hire me if it wasn't for the fact I had started as a temp and they could tell I'd be an asset. It wasn't a job where you needed a degree and to be honest I probably learned more on the job than I did with the meaningless piece of paper that I now have. Loved the boss though and would have worked for her again in an instant.
It's a somewhat common place in Hollywood to say that you can do X on your Resume and then get trained to do X after you are Hired for the part. Example: Erik Estrada didn't know how to ride a motorcycle when he was hired for CHIP's but immediately went to school for it once he got the part.
Also we had a guy call in saying his mother had died and was giving a week's bereavement leave. 3 years later his Dead Mother called trying to track him down while he was on vacation. Come to find out that he was in Jail for a Drug Charges both of those times. They fired him after working there for 15 years.
I’m 56…did an interview the other day and the employer asked me what motivates me to work… apparently liking air conditioning, electricity and pooping inside was not the answer they were looking for.
I should put on an application, "skilled parachuteless sky diver". And when pressed for details, "well maybe not skilled, but I'm sure I'd kill at this."
I’ll either be the best, or I’ll die trying 😏
Any management: "We value your contributions."
What? you didnt finish your degree?, back to the depths with you.
On my second job when I was 18 working night shift at Tesco, to stack shelves, whilst I was at University they asked 'What was my favourite movie?' I could not think of one as I am more of a music guy, and I opened my mouth and said 'This is England' 2006 version. They were stunned but I somehow I still got the job.
Good film, what was the worry?
@@TheWoodTink It being very political and racist is why. It just happened to be that is was the last film I watched with my room mate as they HAD to watch it as part of their film studies
While this wasn't when I was working as such, I remember one year waking up on my birthday feeling really ill - like I was going to be sick. I was never the sort of kid to fake illness to avoid school, so my mum called the school to let them know that I was ill.
Later in the day, I felt better, and my aunt (who was visiting for my birthday week, and usually lived nearly 200 miles away) asked if I felt well enough to go birthday shopping in town - I agreed, and while in the centre of the town, I spot my headmistress crossing the road - and me, in my innocence, went up to her to say "hello", never realising just how bad it would look that I was out shopping on my birthday, having been reported as off sick for the day...
“We are like a family here”… yeh, the Manson family…
I called in sick one April morning in 1989. I actually was suffering from a moderate case of hay fever at the time. I decided maybe I should spend the day somewhere I could get some fresh air. So I went to that afternoon's major league baseball game played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, a stadium notorious for strong winds coming in off the bay. Found out later that my company's entire executive team attended the same game. Fortunately there were about 20,000 spectators in attendance, so I did not get caught.
It's so refreshing to see that some of the old applying for a job protocols are being thrown out with the trash. Some of these were from the middle of the last century. I know because so am I. Ha!
Some of my unfavorites: The dance about revealing salary. What a colossal waste of time; treating the potential boss like some kind of God who has ultimate power over your life - for MONEY! ; thinking that feeling bad over being disrespected just meant you needed to "learn how to take it," because you "just need to grow up" because no one is going to "sugar coat it for you." True, you do need to learn to be resilient in the adult world and self-regulate. But it shouldn't feel like a frat house hazing.
In all honesty, I don't think school grades should be needed in standard jobs. They're just memory tests. I did shit and yet I'm in a place working alongside university graduates all because I told them in my interview that I am willing to learn exactly how they want me to do the job 😂
They took a chance on me and now I'm one of the top performers
All this video has done is made me realize that I need to start lying because that's how you get ahead it's just hard for me to do that because I was always raised not to lie
When I was 22 I worked for aviva on car insurance. Some reason I told them my steady GF was pregnant in my initial interview (nerves?!?) so had to follow that through! 6 months later……. I’m on paid paternity leave 😂 Month and a half paid leave later I put my notice in I couldn’t keep that up for a career!
When I was 16, I worked in fast food and always had to close on weekends. We lived in a tiny town where everyone knew everybody else. I wanted to go to a party, last minute, so I told them I had to leave because a car fell on my dad. He came in the next day. Nobody ever said a word to me about it...
LOL here is one for you. I had a friend that used to work for a supermarket, a few times he had to stock the frozen food section which I guess he didn't like to do and when he wanted the day off he would mix up a bit of oatmeal and then pretend to throw up in front of the manager or whoever and they would send him home for the day thinking he was sick.😂
I’m Australian and uni degrees are not overly important here, or they weren’t in my time. My sisters and I never went to uni and all of us have had excellent well paid jobs. Employers here are more interested in whether or not you can do the job well, degree or not. It has never hindered me at all, I worked for the police and the Federal Court of Australia. A degree was never mentioned when being interviewed for either job.
I had a line manager who had very clearly lied about his web development skills., I was on my placement year at uni and had done rudimentary web dev and I was 10 times more competent than him. His job - Web dev. It was my job too. But I had to correct everything he had done. In the end HIS line manager came to me and said "is he a bullshitter?" I nodded.
Biggest lies? Anything by HR.
I applied for a job once, told them I loved the company and wanted to work my way up through the ranks from the floor. They said oh no, we want people who just want to work the floor and stay there. It was a factory making string. I had a college degree. I didn’t think they would believe me if I said I just wanted to work the floor forever. If I had known I would have lied, but it was too late.
I exaggerated my supervisor experience I need to explain
I said I was till supervisor at large supermarket
I was what I didn’t explain was it was graveyard shift only self service and I wasn’t in charge of people
Not really a lie, more of an exaggerated statement.
Lol that's nothing, my part time bar supervisor work turned into basically an event co-ordinator with managerial duties by the time my cv was done with it
In the public sector, it's very hard to deny someone a language bonus after they've gotten previously due to the agency belatedly finding out that the person did not meet all of the contractual qualifications in order to receive the bonus. I remember with one person, the matter ultimately had to be decided in front of a labor friendly EEOC board (the agency won).
When I was about 22 I also killed off a grandparent. My boyfriend suggested saying my granny has died but since I still had a living granny I thought that was just tempting fate a bit much. I told them my grandpa had died. The next day back at work the boys I didn't like liked at me very sympathetically and asked if I was ok. "Sure" I said. "I'm sorry about your grandpa " she said. "Oh yes, well, I'm managing." I'm now 52 and never have considered using such an excuse again. I felt awful. When I had to call into work at 27 and tell a different boss in a different company my dad had been killed in a car crash and had to almost walk him through giving me the time of because he was in such shock, I felt that was karma kicking my arse. (Not my dad dying, just the awkward conversation).
In the Entertainment business, there is a saying. Don't ask an actor if they can do something, they will always say yes. My drama teacher in high school even told those that were interested in pursuing acting as a career to do this.
The worst lies are the ones that get innocent people fired and destroys their lives 🙁
I find it pretty ironic that you are okay with the person at 4:20 telling lies to get a summer job. How would you react to a company doing the same? Offer a job to a person. Let them alter their plans as they think they have a job. Maybe even let them turn down other jobs in the meantime. And then in two or three months when they got through the busy season or that backlog of work that had been piling up, they terminate the new employee as they are no longer needed. I suspect you might not be nearly as accepting of a business that did that to an employee.
Ive been passed over for a promotion due to not finishing the certification for my job
I did go back and finish it but i stopped doing all the extra work i was doing.
The lasik dude should’ve just said it was rescheduled…until the next time he needed a weekend off 😂
I phoned up pretending to be ill, unfortunately having an iPhone I pressed the lock button, but the call never disconnected, I then said to my friend that’s how you do it and felt smug until they phoned me back and told me they heard everything. It was a really crappy job so I didn’t want to carry on there for much longer.
There's a legend at my job about a guy who used his brother's credentials to get a manager position. Deception was discovered not long after he started. How wild is that?
Not that I was caught, just that I am always open during interviews when it comes to my education that I havent finished it. And somehow years later I am still within the business and seems that I have someone on my side to try and get me an even higher position all of a sudden :)
I mean i said i was learning German (dusting off dupolingo) on a job application. I did pull a sick day when i just couldn't cope
Disatser 😂
for the lasik one, he could say the procedure didn't take and go back to wearing glasses or you know, get contacts?
I did the revers, I did not let on I could driver a tractor, went months until the guy who did drive it around, left it in the barn aisle, blocking horses in their stalls and the guy was not on the property,,,, the horses had to get out so I had to move the tractor and the secrete was out
We fired a woman that claimed her grandmother died and she (the employee) didn't have any vacation or berevement time built back up. She was granted unpaid leave for the absence (a week). Come to find out she went with her boyfriend to Paris for a vacation. She stupidly posted photos to her Facebook which one of the office employees, her enemy as it turned out, discovered. When she was called on it, she doubled down and said the funeral was in France. We called her bluff and said we needed the obituary in both French and English and it better reference her (the employee) by name as a survivor. Gave her two days to get it, only crickets. Terminated.
These are brilliant 😂
Funny that J-Lo said skydiving. I signed up for skydiving club in college.. mentioned to mom that I was only "thinking of it" because she then expressly said that was the only club which was a definite NO.
So I think my NO skydiving lie makes up for J-Lo's YES skydiving lie in the end. It's a karmic wash.
"Of course, I love spiders" -- cranberry collector.
New Ben video just dropped, let's see what he has a lot of time for today 😂
Lied I was sick so I didn’t have to work Christmas Eve, next day really bad tinnitus
Oh no!
@ 1:40 You might wanna revise that sentence (Raygun, anyone?)
I really don't think it's weird that a company would want to hire people who want to stay long term above those who just want to work for a few months then quit!
See employers need to stop discriminating against autistics. My brain is way too literal. I say things exactly as they are, and I interpret everything people say exactly as they say, which can be frustrating, but if you tell me to be at work at 8 am, I will be at my desk and signing on at 8 am. That said, if you tell me to come to a meeting at 1 pm, and then you are not there at exactly 1 pm or earlier, I will call you ass out on it if you are the person who told me to be there because you are wasting my work time to get my work done. I will attempt to do it tactfully, but it will probably come out bluntly. That said, every boss I have ever worked for knew exactly where I stood and what was going on with my work.
When I worked at burger king I lied to the company about being part of a union to get a pay rise. Only got caught when the company franchise got bought by another company. Then I found a real union and got my pay rise back 😅😅
Yeah, hire someone for three months? No. It is inefficient and costly by virtue of training costs, inefficient production while the trainee learns.
I found myself drumming in a modern jazz quintet. The most boring men I've ever gigged with. That didn't last long. Punk band after that, PsychoNormal and his Stiff Victims!
I know someone who said his daughter died and they have to fly home for a funeral so they can sit in his room and smoke weed for a week.
😂😅instead of lying about getting Lasix he should have said it was a vasectomy.
the value of a piece of paper is often very overrated and of no use
At one of my jobs, there was a person who lied about finishing high school. Bc she lied she got fired. (US)
I imidately thought of that interview taken at Taylor Swift concert where the person had lied being sick so she could attend the concert, so she had to use blanket over her head while being interviewed:
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I’m actually fluent in Spanish but there’s no extra pay for that so I don’t translate for anyone 😂😂😂😂
I disagree on the education part. I'm highly educated and have had to constantly explain to and correct the basics to coworkers that have worked their way up. It takes time away from me doing my own job.
It annoys me when people lie and steal jobs from people that have put themselves trough school.
Highly educated? *through, not trough
Interesting take
@@carolinebjerkelund767 Is this the day you learn that people from countries that don't have English as their native language, also use the internet?
English is my third language, I think I'm doing quite well actually.
@@MsAnpassad Then omit you are highly educated. You claim to be a polyglot, but you are not
@@carolinebjerkelund767twat
At 7:00 I saw an orb go by you
I said i identify as a women to get higher uniform allowance.
Were you trying to be funny?
Did you have to wear the uniform tho?
what does"trying to black your way through?" me and in the UK? I’ve never heard that expression in the US. I think you’d be canceled in the US.
You heard him wrong, he said blag, as in making stuff up on the fly to get through, its a common saying in the UK