employment

[theinmans at mindspring.com]

> >Well, FWIW, I know a guy who lied and said he had a BSEE, but he was a good
> >enough tech that when they asked him the *money* questions during the
> >interview he answered with authority so they never even bothered to check
> >his references.  ; ) He is now a program manager and no one except me and a
> >select few know about it.

Of course, there's the other side to this story.  My sister the VP hires 
engineers (mostly civil), and she tells this classic story.  The
interview
is going very well and she is just about to hire this person.  She asks
again where this person got his BS...

Interviewee: Oh, yeah, yeah.  I got my BS from X State University.

My Sister:  (Picking up the telephone).  Do you mind if I call them?

Interviewee:  Uh... don't bother.

END OF INTERVIEW.

Just be careful when you're lying in a job interview.  You never know 
when that sweet girl sitting on the other side of the desk, acting
friendly and asking you all the easy questions, is suddenly going to
... reach over and cut your balls off.

Elliot