Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!
It’s why I’m stuck in a factory. I just don’t have it in me to bullshit/lie. I have a friend who worked his way into his career by saying whatever he needed to say and he makes 3x my salary.
I wish I had no morals or anxiety…
I’ll be honest that’s what I’ve done. But they weren’t lies of stuff I can’t do. More like “oh I made this small coding project”, “I’ve replaced phone screens before”, “I know how to debug code”
Yeah; those are reasonable. Not overly-checkable stuff like the school you went to and degree you obtained.
I’ve done this. It got me a job I worked at for 5 years and I never once was asked to prove my education. This job led to a bunch of networking opportunities that got me work for the next decade
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.
Even if you don’t agree with this guy, you have to admit his credentials are impressive!
Things techbros imagine they’ve invented:
- Trains
- Friendship
- Fraud
Ahh haha. The trains one hits hard.
He’s talking about an MBA, not an actual degree.
I remember once borrowing a friend’s MBA textbook to see what it was all about. I opened to a random page which turned out to be in a chapter on negotiating strategies. There was an offset bit of text that read “your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations.”
Video game loading screen tips but textbook form.
“Shoot the bad guys before they shoot you.”
Had to go find a Table of Contents for an MBA textbook
For this thread start at chapter 18
LOL “Leading from the Middle”. AKA “Sucking Up and Punching Down”.
I mean, the textbook wasn’t wrong…
Please advise, my landlord won’t accept LinkedIn DMs as rent payment.
What if I already have a master’s but still can’t find a job?
Just keep adding master’s degrees until you get an offer, I guess.
“Employers hate this one powerful trick!”
To be fair there’s a whole lot of wealthy people like Trump who bought their degree anyway
C’s get degrees
So do donors
My unpopular opinion (and I’ll eat the downvotes) is that CV fraudsters don’t get prosecuted nearly enough.
It’s not just faceless billionaire companies you’re fucking over, it’s the other candidates who actually put in the effort to become competent at the job you lied to get.
I’ll never get my head around the popularity of the idea that lying on a CV doesn’t make you a liar.
