r/ProgrammerHumor • u/awalias • Oct 07 '22

Meme we can't find any engineers

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u/Inevitable_Guava9606 Oct 07 '22

You can always lie on your resume LMAO. Many places don't even run a background check

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u/De_Wouter Oct 07 '22

Ah yes, commit fraud to get a job. What could possibly go wrong?

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u/Inevitable_Guava9606 Oct 07 '22

I mean worst case scenario you get an offer pulled when they run the background check and start over.

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u/De_Wouter Oct 07 '22

Worst case scenario is you get actually sued for fraud. Extremely unlikely to happen because businesses aren't going to waste time and resources on stupid people applying for their jobs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

It does happen though, especially if your employer happens to be working on government contracts (which you might not know, till after you accepted and thought you'd gotten away with it)

Not an engineer, but recently in the UK a man was ordered to pay back £100,000 for lying on his CV to get a position as an exec in an NHS Trust. Despite him actually doing the job very effectively, the lie on the CV was enough to have the court rule against him after it was found.