Ever lie on a job application?

[Docfeelgood]

I lied on a job application today and feel guilty about it.
I feel that if I had not lied, I don't think I would have been concidered for the position.
The question was if I had ever been fired from a past job.
Yes, I have but I lied and said no.
I just wonder if I had told the truth would it had really kept me from getting the job?

Have you ever lied on a job application?


Another

If you were in my position would you have told the truth?

[Flubber]

Re: Ever lie on a job application?

Originally posted by Docfeelgood
I lied on a job application today and feel guilty about it.
I feel that if I had not lied, I don't think I would have been concidered for the position.
The question was if I had ever been fired from a past job.
Yes, I have but I lied and said no.
I just wonder if I had told the truth would it had really kept me from getting the job?

Have you ever lied on a job application?

NO . . . everything that I put on paper is fully supportable.

The job interview though .. . they always ask that "biggest weakness" question. Mine is surfing while at work but since I don't know a way to spin that favorably, I always give some other bullcrap HR stype answer

[Docfeelgood]

Just got a call from the sheriffs dept. wanting to set up for a intervew to my resume I sent.


here I go again.

Should I or should I not lie?

[Arrian]

Nope, I didn't lie. And what I fessed up to was worse (being arrested).

-Arrian

[Docfeelgood]

I pride myself on not being a thief or a lier.
This is why it bothers me so much

[Colonâ„¢]

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

[Docfeelgood]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
When you're in a hole, stop digging.

I hear you.

It's something like having no money then stealing food to stay alive.

[Colonâ„¢]

Oops, I misread. I figured the police wanted to question you over that first resume you sent.

[Lorizael]

I omit a good deal. For example, I don't tell them about the job I only had for two days from which I quit without any notice.

And I misconstrue. For example, I will tell them that I quit my first job because I was having scheduling conflicts with school, not because I was stressed out and going crazy.

But I don't think I ever specifically lie. Adjusting the truth is better.

[Arrian]

Spin, baby, spin

We all do it to *some* degree. But this is a little more clear-cut.

-Arrian

[Japher]

that was a rather vague question

"have you ever been fired?"

really, it's more like "mandatory quiting"

[Lorizael]

No, you've never been fired, but perhaps you've come to an agreement with your boss that continued employment is not the best option for you and the company.

That's what happened with my second job. He caught me in the mall (where I worked) yelling at a police officer to stop beating up my brother... on a day when I had told my boss that I would be at my grandmother's funeral instead of at work.

It was true, too, but he didn't really care at that point. But I wasn't fired. Technically. There was an agreement. We both agreed that I wasn't going to work there anymore.

[BlackCat]

There could be a million good reasons to be fired - I actally has been fired twice* of the same company - both times because they had to reduce staff due to red numbers.

It's a bad idea to lie - you probably get your arse kicked when they find out.

* I had been working so long for the company that I had 6 months respite (?) before the firing was real, and in that time numbers went highly black again and I was rehired. Second time I got a offer that I couldn't refuse and was out after 14 days.

[Richelieu]

Yes. I lied to get the job i have now. And i'm better at it than the other so called ''qualified'' morons i work with. So i have no shame about this one. And i won't have to lie on my next application because my current job gives me the experience i lacked - and lied about - on my resume.

[Flubber]

"Fired" is a loaded term that implies the employee was somehow at fault.

I have been "downsized"once and terminated when projects ended but I would never say I was fired


and its a nebulous thing-- the boss could be leading up to firing

"I think you are the worst employee I have ever seen and should never work in the *** sector . . ."

"Fine I Quit"

Was that person fired?

A law firm I know would, if they wished someone to leave, hold a meeting where they would be "invited to resign"-- If they hadn't they would beterminated by the firm but this process allowed their ex-employees to say they had quit. Somehow thats not seen as quite as bad