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We did get an applicant, he came in, and we interviewed him. During the interview with one of my colleagues, he stated that he lied to a client so he could go home early. Do people really lack this degree of basic common sense in an interview?
Yes they do but I think it is worse once you hire them and they do great for a month or two then their true work ethic comes out and it is more trouble than you really want or need to deal with.
...he stated that he lied to a client so he could go home early.
Did he say what was going on at home?
You know... the *rest* of the story... the context.
Some work environments are so rigid that the only way to ever get some personal
time off is to lie about something. I don't hold that against the employee.
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Do people really lack this degree of basic common sense in an interview?
Telling truth even if it might make them look less than ideal to limited thinkers?
More should be brave enough.
We did get an applicant, he came in, and we interviewed him. During the interview with one of my colleagues, he stated that he lied to a client so he could go home early. Do people really lack this degree of basic common sense in an interview?
Dumb. But, yes, some do. I remember one woman I interviewed who, when I asked what she disliked about her current job said, "I hate some of the clients. They're such b*+ches!"
i would say that 99% of all interviewers who currently have a job lied about the interview that they are doing right now.
most of them didn't tell their employer "sorry but i can't come to work today because i have a job interview"...instead they had a doctors appt, sick, etc.
i actually have a very hard time lying so i simply tell the truth or omit information a lot.
for example, i actually told the truth about a phone interview for my last job. i had a phone interview and went to my car to do it. i had to leave a long meeting that was scheduled last minute (of which i was an important participant) to do it and when i got back, the people in the meeting were like "hey, where did you go?" and i said "oh, i had a phone interview" and they just said "ugh...ok." i did a lot of interviews for the company so they just thought that i conducted a phone interview (not that i was on the receiving end).
i also said "i'll be in seattle on monday so i won't be at work" when i had an onsite interview and had to travel for it. of course they probably thought i was just on vacation or visiting a friend or something.
i had a graphic design candidate tell one of our women interviewers that he once worked (many years ago) as a porn actor. we hired him anyway although we severely questioned his judgement on that.
RVD, what's wrong with asking for a personal day off and leaving it at that?
To the OP, at least he weeded himself out, would have been a shame to hire someone like this and find out later. It just shows the person is lazy and can't be counted on to complete their tasks.
We did get an applicant, he came in, and we interviewed him. During the interview with one of my colleagues, he stated that he lied to a client so he could go home early. Do people really lack this degree of basic common sense in an interview?
No. Some people are just that stupid. I was interviewing a candidate one time and asked if they had experience with shell scripting.
"I'll have to check my resume for that," the woman replied. She was so skilled that she apparently forgot not only skills, but whether she ever had them to begin with.
Needless to say, I shortened the interview, and to be polite, gave her a quick tour of the place, which conveniently ended at the front door. "We'll be in touch." Or not.
We did get an applicant, he came in, and we interviewed him. During the interview with one of my colleagues, he stated that he lied to a client so he could go home early. Do people really lack this degree of basic common sense in an interview?
Just read this forum. People lack this kind of common sense on interviews, applications, and resumes. Reading through this forum makes me think the unemployment problem in this country isn't just the economy.
RVD, what's wrong with asking for a personal day off and leaving it at that?
To the OP, at least he weeded himself out, would have been a shame to hire someone like this and find out later. It just shows the person is lazy and can't be counted on to complete their tasks.
i think that the problem is that for most people who are actively looking for work while working, you tend to take a lot of mornings or afternoons off to interview.
if you take a lot of "personal days" or you're out a lot of 1/2 days it quickly gets really obvious. it also brings up a lot of questions along the lines of "sally has been out a lot these days - what's up?" "i don't know...she just keeps taking personal days" "hmmm, wonder if everything is ok" "yeah it's odd", etc. nosy co-workers.
so at least in my experience, job seekers will come up with a list of stuff that they rotate around:
dr appt
kids dr appt
dentist
pick up X from airport
roof leak at home (contractor)
plumber at home
etc.
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