Lies I told on my CVI've not had to lie on my CV (resumé for all you 'merkins) for a while, but way back when I was a teenager and C was a cool programming language, I listed it as one of my skills.
My new boss was remarkably nice about me spending my first week's employment reading a "how to program in C" book.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 15:55)
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Temp agency 'reformatted' my CV for meI applied for temp work through an agency after i graduated. I had to go for an interview for some boring admin role.
The interview was going as well as expected, when towards the end, the guy started asking me questions about my time as a travelling minstrel.
My brain went into it's reflex mode of 'I must have told a lie.... tell more to cover it up', but even with my L337 sK1lls at bullshitting, I was truly stumped at that one.
After a lot of confused glances bounced round the room, we managed to figure out that the 'tards at my temp agency had decided to reformat my CV before sending it, and had somehow removed the full stop and line break between two of the entries in my 'interests' section:
Spent 6 months travelling round the Middle East and the Far East.
Playing the guitar.
We all had a good laugh about it, and I even got offered the job, but turned it down because it was rubbish.
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HoratioFellatio Taking the the out of psychotherapist, Tue 11 Jul 2006, 4:45,
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