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Everyone lies a little. What if you hate your job and the interviewer asked why are you leaving your current position? Are you going to say you are leaving because my current boss is a butthole? Or will you say "for better opportunities"?
I lie about answers that I know they don't want to hear and I like to inflate my current salary. I don't lie about my experience though. Sometimes you just have to fake it til you make it.
Everyone lies a little. What if you hate your job and the interviewer asked why are you leaving your current position? Are you going to say you are leaving because my current boss is a butthole? Or will you say "for better opportunities"?
I lie about answers that I know they don't want to hear and I like to inflate my current salary. I don't lie about my experience though. Sometimes you just have to fake it til you make it.
yeah, i can understand lying in the not admitting that you're leaving a job because your boss is horrible way. or not admitting that your greatest weakness is something really unattractive to a potential employer.
inflating your salary is not a good idea, though. that does very commonly get checked, either if they call your previous employer or if they ask you for w2s. if they find out you lied, you could lose an offer.
Everyone lies a little. What if you hate your job and the interviewer asked why are you leaving your current position? Are you going to say you are leaving because my current boss is a butthole? Or will you say "for better opportunities"?
My last manager was a chronic liar. It started at my interview. I don't why she would describe the position one way, tell me particular projects I would be working on, even my HOURS....they were all a lie. I mention the hours because that's so black-and-white. She told me in the interview I would work 8 to 5. When I accepted the offer, she told me to come in no later than 7. It didn't seem like that big of a deal, just a bit puzzling.....
Until.......
After I started working there, I was part of the interviewing process for future staff. In our first joint interview, she says to the candidate, that the hours are 8 to 5. So I said, "Well, really, everyone comes in at 7." She glared at me and had the audacity to say, "The actual hours are 8 to 5." WTF???? EVERYONE was expected to be in between 6:30 and 7! Why in the world did she lie about that in every interview we ever did together???
There were MANY other much more serious lies, falsification of documents, and various regulatory violations (some quite serious that eventually led to me being a whistleblower, and an investigation that confirmed my claims).
Everyone lies a little. What if you hate your job and the interviewer asked why are you leaving your current position? Are you going to say you are leaving because my current boss is a butthole? Or will you say "for better opportunities"?
I lie about answers that I know they don't want to hear and I like to inflate my current salary. I don't lie about my experience though. Sometimes you just have to fake it til you make it.
I think there is a different between saying "better opportunities" than your boss wasn't appreciating you because is a part of a bigger issue. It maybe the initial reason but you would not likely give your best work in that type company and possibly not move up in the company.
In my experience the only employees who say things like this are dishonest people looking to justify their own dishonesty.
That's a very undeserved comment. I asked my former manager if there was something going on with my job and she told me TO MY FACE WITH A SMILE ON HERS, "No, nothing is going on with your job THAT I'M AWARE OF." I asked a simple, straightforward question and was answered with a bold faced lie. Also, I've discovered that potential employers will paint a beautiful picture of the job for you so you'll accept the job, they'll bring you in and then you'll discover that everything they said to you during the interview was a lie. How does that go back on the employee as being dishonest?
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It didn't seem like that big of a deal, just a bit puzzling.....
