Could you? Would you?

I work in a highly specialized technical field. Not bragging – you’ll understand in a minute… A position opened up at work – well mine actually – because they are moving me to something different. We interviewed about 5 people for the job. We always joke in our work environment about the number of acronyms used to describe what we do. When reading the resumes that come in – they start to blur. Not many folks who interview are local. So, while I was on Christmas break, my boss and a colleague interviewed a fella. They said he was great – would fit right in and hit the ground running. His first day was today.

He was built like Jude Law. He was very quite. He had a soft handshake. I should have known. He started training with our guy. He was the one who helped interview him. He noticed he wasn’t talking much and when he asked him simple questions he just sat there. When he did speak, our guy thought his accent was off.

My boss then asked him if he was the person we interviewed. He said “No”. He then confessed that he paid someone to do the interview and write his resume. He was quickly escorted out to the consulting representative. Would you ever have the nerve to do such a thing? Did he really think he would get away with it?

I am so naive. We were all amazed. Could you do that? Would you do that?  If you did do that, did you get away with it?

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