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Jobless! HELP ME!

juniortha3rd said:
very very very very often :)

In my personal expierence, if the job you are applying for pays less than 10 dollars an hour, no one will look into a damn thing that you write down. They're just lookin for someone with a pulse, nothing less, nothing more.
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Except in today's job market, you could be bumping a genuinely more qualified candidate than yourself. Even min. wage jobs can be competitive in lean economic times, when unemployment is in the double digits.

Your credentials are a road map of your accomplishments. If you have to lie to make yourself employable, then you've failed at life. Smart employers will figure it out anyways.
 
If you lie on your application it can come back to haunt you. Say you're hired and have worked there a few months or even a year and your employer finds out that you never went to college let alone finished high school? You can be fired on the spot! It has happened and more often than you think. There was even a case here where a company wanted to hire non-smokers only so this guy is desperate for a job and he lies figuring he won't smoke at work or when going to work so they don't smell the smoke on him. He just smokes his cigarettes on his off time, evenings and weekends. One day someone from work spotted him waiting for his wife outside a grocery store having a smoke. At this point he had been with the company for two (2) years!! This person reported him and he was fired for lying on his application and during his interview.
 
^ Well that's completely different. You just described a case for worker discrimination. There's no reason why an employee should have to disclose their status as a smoker or non-smoker, just like they shouldn't have to disclose their faith, their sexuality, or their marital status. Where I live it's even unusual for private employers to require a criminal background check, and I agree that is private as well.

The only thing you need to be completely transparent about, is your eligibility to work, and your credentials.
 
Cyc said:
Your credentials are a road map of your accomplishments. If you have to lie to make yourself employable, then you've failed at life. Smart employers will figure it out anyways.
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Even after you've failed at life, you still have years or decades of income you have to earn.
 
^ This is true, but it strikes me as a really shitty thing to do to displace someone who has made the right decisions, so that they must fight harder for resources than the person who lied.
 
I don't expect everyone to be saints, but if you're lying about a degree, or a certificate, or accreditation, then you should be fucking castrated. That just crosses the line.

If you want to omit your last job because of a falling-out with that employer, then be my guest.
 
well i filled out and sent in like 6 applications.....now i just cant get past the whole calling thing.....im so fucked in the head...im a failure..
 
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