Outrageous Liars

Generali

I worked at a recruitment agency many years ago and when someone rang in sick we'd write the reason in their file. I was the earliest in so used to field a lot of these calls and many of them sounded like rubbish.

I got a call one morning from a woman while Granny had died. I mumbled some sympathetic words and took a note. I noticed she had quite a lot of absences on her file so started flicking through. It was then that I realized that this was Granny number 3 to have died.

debsy42

I seem to have crossed paths with a few in my time, must attract them, a couple of examples off the top of my head :think:

The chap who told us his sister had died in a crash so he was taking on her children and getting married. Cue us all having a whip round in work and buying a new dinner service for the happy couple. As it turned out sister was alive and well, no children and girlfriend didn't know anything about impending marriage.

Girl I worked with told us all about her live-in boyfriend, name, where he worked etc and turned up one day brandishing an engagement ring happy as anything. Next thing we know she's got breast cancer so she's having treatment/time off work. All comes to light, no boyfriend, she'd bought the ring herself and no cancer!

I just can't fathom why people tell such whoppers, I can understand a little white lie but these take the biscuit :eek:

building_with_lego

A lad I work with now will tell you about the time someone on a moped stole his phone out of his pocket, whereupon he kicked the chap off the moped, punched him until he was unconscious and retrieved his phone (which still worked)

:rotfl:

Same chap eats a baby bath full of sprouts every Christmas at his Nan's, along with the rest of the traditional dinner, and once jumped through the driver's side window of a car, with both feet, when the driver insulted him. We call him 'Motormouth' as he never shuts up:A

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I worked at a recruitment agency many years ago and when someone rang in sick we'd write the reason in their file. I was the earliest in so used to field a lot of these calls and many of them sounded like rubbish.

I got a call one morning from a woman while Granny had died. I mumbled some sympathetic words and took a note. I noticed she had quite a lot of absences on her file so started flicking through. It was then that I realized that this was Granny number 3 to have died.

Dh just lost his third granny. She was step grandmother but had been grandmother for over a decade and was treated as 'grandmother'. I think increasingly people WILL have four parents' funerals in working life, ( a friend of mine has 'three' dads. Birth dad, dad till she was ten - to whom she was closest till he died recently) and dad from ten onwards. They all had parents who were ' grannies' etc. It gets boggling, but the affection can be real.


Of course, there are skivers too, with no grannies but they keep on dropping dead despite not existing.

squirrelchops

I worked with someone who said they were late in as they had 'run over an Alsation' - on their Vespa! Vespa was ok though and he managed to drive or maybe I should say scoot the 15 miles to work despite the impact!

squirrelchops

I also went to school with a serial bush!!ter - guess what they do for a job now - they are are in CID (that bit is true)!!!

pmarsh1986

I had a colleague who I actually felt quite sorry for as she had to tell lies just to make herself interesting I think. Other colleagues thought it was attention seeking. Maybe a combination of both? Anyway one day she posted on Facebook:

"Mmmmm, colleagues and I are getting a Chinese for dinner"

Problem was, I was one of those colleagues and I didn't have time to scratch my erse never mind get a Chinese... most likely as she was disappearing into the toilet to Facebook coming to think about it! Upon pulling her up the next shift we were on, she made some convoluted excuse how she was on a diet, but she wanted people to make sure she was eating? Diet? Ficking diet? She nearly took my hand off offering her one half of my Wispa duo.

One day a colleague was talking about her daughter having her identity stolen when my colleague piped up - well rather interrupted - and said that happened to her brother recently too. A Polish man had stolen his passport: the name of her brother - John McDonald* born in Glasgow. He managed to get a job in the shipyards despite barely speaking a word of English and ran up debts of thousands in her brother's name. Police/baliffs battered down his door etc. Now I suppose people may think that's plausible but problem is she caught herself out a short while later when she reminisced about the story that she and her sister went to Morocco to rescue their nieces who had been stolen by their father to repatriate them and bring them back to her mother (their sister). They managed to board two flights with both nieces having no passports (and speaking little English) but the main part I was interested in was "we are the only two in our whole family who have ever had passports".

*Not his real name. His real name is actually more common!

kabayiri

Years ago at Uni, there was a popular story relayed about the dangers of over-egging your CV to potential future employers.

It seems one student thought it a good idea to mention his hobby - "an avid goat breeder".

Anyway, as luck would have it, one of his interviews puts him up against the president of the UK Goat Breeding Association!

Ladyhawk

kabayiri wrote: »

It seems one student thought it a good idea to mention his hobby - "an avid goat breeder".

As with everything on this thread... WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS????

Spirit_2

kabayiri wrote: »

Years ago at Uni, there was a popular story relayed about the dangers of over-egging your CV to potential future employers.

It seems one student thought it a good idea to mention his hobby - "an avid goat breeder".

Anyway, as luck would have it, one of his interviews puts him up against the president of the UK Goat Breeding Association!

I was part of a panel asessing applications for prestigeous and valuable professional awards. One applicant included reference to their lead role in research into a highly specialised particular field, and its publication in named peer reviewed journals .

Some of us scored this highly until (unfortunately for the applicant) one of my fellow assessors revealed themselves as the real author, producing the original research and the publications. The applicant had been acknowledged as a contributor however was long way down the list.

There were consequences.