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adigal

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8. Stockbrokers did this regularly in the 1980s

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Mon May 14, 2012, 10:12 AM

May 2012

I worked for Bear Stearns, checking out references and education. Many times, I would find stockbrokers who claimed to graduate from Harvard never even attended college. I would bring this to my boss...and nothing would be done. I guess it didn't matter that they were liars. That just meant they were better at their jobs, lying/manipulating/stealing from Granny.

When Bear Stearns went down, I felt no sympathy for that company at all.

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Lying about having a college degree is mere "embellishment", according to this. [View all] closeupready May 2012 OP

Only for the 1%ers ...this is crazy, they could background check this guy uponit7771 May 2012 #1

Forcing someone to step down over THIS??? Zalatix May 2012 #2

Lying is no big deal? closeupready May 2012 #4

It is a big deal generally, but today's job market is ultra, ultra competitive. Zalatix May 2012 #10

Ok, but my point was there's lying, and there's embellishment. closeupready May 2012 #11

I don't see lying about a college degree as that serious. Zalatix May 2012 #12

I mean, you are obviously entitled to your opinion. closeupready May 2012 #15

Post removed Post removed May 2012 #3

Yep. & Answering the phone for a software development co. can be billed as Director of patrice May 2012 #5

LOL, how funny that is. You made me laugh, thank you. closeupready May 2012 #7

It's not as bad as Yahoo! generally claiming they do anything valuable jberryhill May 2012 #6

Stockbrokers did this regularly in the 1980s adigal May 2012 #8

Really? That surprises me, frankly. closeupready May 2012 #9

An example: "the University of West Yorkshire" muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #13

Most of the people didn't lie, but when caught, it was common to ignore it adigal May 2012 #16

We terminated a very good engineer exboyfil May 2012 #14