Lied on CV - Help Needed

annandale

I don't believe for a minute that her ex employers (different companies) would independently of one another call in the police at exactly the same time.

And the police don't seem to have spoken to her

This tale is too far fetched.

yvonne13_2

SparkleDust wrote: »

From what she said, she made up email addresses for the company and asked the employer to send the reference requests to these, then responded with the reference.

It sounds terrible when I write it, I feel responsible for her as we get on and she reports directly to me, I dont want to take it further but scared for her if the police get involved and charge her ? Dont know how bothered the police would be what with everything else they are busy with.

OP I don't know if I misread the above, but are you saying the person in question made up a fake email addresses for the company? If yes can you let me know how that's possible?

My understanding is that a company buys the domain e.g @arcbucklet.com and only people that work for that company can get the address. So unless I'm wrong (Please feel free to correct me) your friend is sly and not to be trusted on any level or she tells a good story..

However if what she's saying is true, you better hope she isn't making fake email addresses with you as a reference either.

TELLIT01

I don't know how false e-mail addresses are created, but it is clearly possible. There have been a number of reports recently where people have been scammed into thinking an e-mail has come from a solicitor asking for house deposits to be paid to a new account. From what I understand, a very minor (non-obvious) change to the e-mail address is used. For example money@fredbloggs.com becomes money@fred-bloggs.com.

However much truth is in the claims made by the OP's subordinate, I don't think there is any safe option other than to report what they have been told.

Undervalued

yvonne13 wrote: »

OP I don't know if I misread the above, but are you saying the person in question made up a fake email addresses for the company? If yes can you let me know how that's possible?

My understanding is that a company buys the domain e.g @arcbucklet.com and only people that work for that company can get the address. So unless I'm wrong (Please feel free to correct me) your friend is sly and not to be trusted on any level or she tells a good story..

However if what she's saying is true, you better hope she isn't making fake email addresses with you as a reference either.

Often by buying, in your example, arcbucklet.co.uk or arcbuck.com or whatever is the nearest they can find that is free. People all too often don't check. If they want to carry it a stage further they make a quick copy of the company's home page and put that on www. whatever they have bought. It is all too easy.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

TBagpuss wrote: »

This.

It is legally recognised hat employm,ent contracts contain an implied term that the employee will "serve their employer with good faith and fidelity" - sometimes referred to as the duty of fidelity or the duty of good faith.

You have been made aware that an employee whom you manage has admitted to acting in ways which were dishonest, that they have a track record of lying to employers and of forging reference or creating false or misleading references.

You don't know whether you have the full story - if the police are in fact involved then that suggests to me that there may be more to this.

Go to your manager or direct to HR. tell them exactly what this individual has said to you.

Make clear that you do not know any details and don't knowwhether this is the full story, or whether it may be more or less serious.

If you are confident that the refernces she gave to obtain the curretn job were genuine then say so, and explain why, and ifyou feel that she is doin a good job then say that too, but make clear that you felt that this was something which they needed to be aware of so that they can make any enquiries they feel are appropriate and sothat you are not keeping potentially relevant information from them.

If you say nothing, and it later comes out that you knew about the issue, then that would reflect extremely badly on you. If you are in supervisory role then this goes double, as your role includes managing your juniors and keeping your employer informed about relevant matters.

I think that you could, if you wished, suggest to your friend that she take some proper advice from hr union or from a solicitor.

It's also important to bear in mind that your "friend"'s first reaction if your company finds this out for themselves will be to say "Oh, my manager knew about it!"