"I Lied My Way Into A Job I Am Seriously Unqualified For"

Lying to get ahead - we've all done it, but how far is too far? We dive into the ethics of exaggerating credentials to land your dream job.

This hilarious pod features an anonymous caller who openly admits to fudging his resume and experience to go from hospitality worker to sales team manager. He explains how he finessed his way into the corporate world with no formal qualifications. Our hosts debate whether his harmless lies are brilliant gamesmanship or unethical deception.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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app Hailee's a liar and her marriage is a sham
because it's built on It's built on the fact that
we've just learned in the Wall of Truth that she
lied to her surfer husband that she also was a
surfer when she was courting him.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
But it work.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Look at me now, married, two kids, two dogs.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Look at this ring.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, So we've been asking you thirty one or two
three we've ever lied to impress someone? And we have
one of our favorite callers, Anonymous on the line. Anonymous,
what's his story?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh? I think line is probably a little bit harsh,
but I've gotten a job that I'm probably not one
hundred percent qualified for. So look, I was working hospitality
and basically just got completely fed up with you know
that the pay is not good and the worst super hard.
So I've been working over in Victoria. I went to

(01:02):
University of Adelaide for a couple of months that dropped out,
and so just wrote down that I finished and degree.
I wrote down that my mates ruled my references to
some jobs in Melbourne and ended up getting a job
as a manager of a sales team.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
With what previous sales experience and not.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, you know that's not really important, is.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Na.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well that's I mean, everything's a sales job if you're looking.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
At them managing teams. Have you done that before?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I did? You know? I was house captain when I
was in year twelve?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Pretty much, I.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Reckon it's pretty much the saying, but you know, nobody knows. Look,
it's a pretty easy job. It's way easier than the
hospital work I was doing. And honestly, I sold myself
in the interview, which I reckon is about as hard
as sales as anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
That is the proper sales job, isn't it. So does
it ever come up at all? Have you ever had
any moments where someone has mentioned a technical term or
something and you've gone, oh, yeah, sure and then gone
to look it up.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, look, there's some hairy moment. But being like a
manager of the team is most people don't want to
bring stuff up to me and kind of push anything
because they don't want to kind of get on my
bad side.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
You're above the group.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, do you just delegate? I think that's what people
when they don't know what they're doing. They just delegate
to everybody else.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Lots of emails, lots of let's circle back, you know,
the classic test. It almost is like what I imagine
being a consultant his life.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Do you say in meetings? Yeah, I echo Max over there,
I echo those sentiments.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, a buzzword echoes a buzzword circle back, take it offline. Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
None of you ever had to rely on like a
quick Google or a chat GPT to go, oh, hit
me over the line with this one.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I mean like I've been doing it for the last
couple of years, so I have picked up a lot
more of it now. So the first couple of months
we're a little bit dodge, but I think it's I reckon.
I'm pretty pretty reliable now. How many how many people?
There's seven in my team directly?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
See.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
This is actually proved a point that I've always thought,
if you have a great personality and you can sell stuff,
you can go anywhere you want in life.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
It doesn't matter how smart you fly your way to
the top. Yeah, yeah, why not? And I's managing a
netball team worth of people over there, Yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Bergio was a marketing manager somewhere and he had no
marketing experience.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Hang on, no, I still do stuff for them. Let me.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Ah, let's not mention the company name.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
I did lie another time to impress though. This girl
said that she was the daughter of the Venezuelan prime minister.
Oh yeah, and I told her that I was a
backup dancer for b didn't Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Brilliant, Did you believe you?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's like when I used to go out to Rocket
in like twenty twenty ten and GWS had just come
into the AFL competition. I was like, yeah, I played
for the Giants. No one knows any GWS players.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
We're all lies, all right, thank you?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And I no guys, well a legend.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
We'll see you, like doing open heart surgery somewhere soon,
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
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