employment

[Rob]

----- Original Message -----
From: KA4HJH <ka4hjh at gte.net>
To: <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: employment


> >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.
> >
> >Honestly, too, after the fact the higher ups will not want to admit they
> >were duped and will prolly not attempt to follow-up on the guy. As long
as
> >you can do the job, I really think mosts execs do not care enough about
it
> >to go through the trouble.
>
> Heh, heh. This reminds me of the now infamous story of the guy who
> scammed his way into one of the major medical universities. He was
> rolling in research grants and cranking out the papers. Everyone was
> thrilled until one of his assistants discovered that he was faking
> results. It didn't take long for the whole thing to unravel except
> for the problem of getting rid of the SOB. The "higher-ups" were of
> course extremely embarrassed about the whole thing and he threatened
> to sue, blah blah blah. Fortunately, someone had the sense to check
> everything thoroughly. Seems he lied about his education on his job
> application to the university. And the funny thing was that right
> above his signature it had the usual statement about "falsifying any
> of this information is grounds for instant dismissal".
>
> Even though this guy was full of it and perfectly capable of causing
> everyone a lot of grief, he was out the door overnight, and I
> seriously doubt any lawyer would touch that case with a ten foot pole.

Any lawyer will *take* a case, no matter how absurd, as long as you have the
money for his services. Remember the *granny coffee spill* case? That was
pure bunk, and at the time I even believe that the coffee had an expressed
warning right on the cover, but with a good enough lawyer, you can win
anything. Ask Sony about all the technology they supposedly *invented* and
had *prior technology* on, but could not reproduce in any capacity or figure
out how to manufacture. Then, they sued the corporation to make them sell
the stuff to them because Sony argued it *wasnt fair* that they could
manufacture it while Sony could not.

FWIW, there have been multiple cases of ppl in the medical field
misrepresenting themselves. There was another case where a guy *bought* a
medical degree from an offshore university, I think in Senegal. 5000
dollars.. Worked as a doctor at some very well known hospitals for almost 20
years before he was caught. The AMA is very tight about information
regarding medical disciplinary actions and coddles many bad  or doctors of
unknown origin. There was another instance where a guy just came right off
of the street and perpetrated himself as a doctor and actually got the job!
No degree, nada. That buffoonery went on for years before anyone acted upon
it either, and even then, he did not face any criminal charges afterwards
because of the loose wording of the paperwork and legalities.

Honestly, in a lot of positions a good tech can imitate an engineer fairly
well and no one would *ever* know the difference. And, even if they ever
were found out, who cares? Not much the corporation can/will do either way
because it would give them bad publicity and they do not want to risk it.
Brand is above all else.

For some reason, in the mere 30 years I have been on this planet, I have had
the displeasure of seeing nearly every scam in the book act itself out
around me. I guess thats why I am so cynical.  :)) Sorry about that.



Rob