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Thursday, 6 August 2026

If you lie on your CV, do you have to give your wages back?

 

8 comments:

DAD said...

But if a political party lies on its manifesto, it suffers no consequences.

A K Haart said...

DAD - yes, it's all very two tier from the sound of it.

dearieme said...

I am still learning new stuff. "It has also emerged that he falsely claimed to hold a master’s degree in psychodynamic counselling from Birkbeck University"

How in God's name did the election committee fail to spot that? Still, its Chairman, Prof Hilary Cretin, the head of the Faculty of Education, lavished praise on the new hire in a BBC interview in 2023. (Warning: parts of that sentence are plagiarised and it may contain a spelling mistake.)

Anyway, listen to the silly cow gushing with him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/06/cambridge-hired-arday-after-listening-to-black-students/

A K Haart said...

dearieme - I don't have whatever the telegraph needs for online viewing, there is video on YT with Prof Hilary Cretin gushing away. It may be a clip from the BBC interview because she certainly gushes from what must be the silly end of the woke spectrum.

dearieme said...

Today the Telegraph quotes the silly cow as referring to "our inability to really teach young people to be critical thinkers". Look in the mirror, love.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - she even manages to look silly, critical thinking would give her the shivers.

Anonymous said...

I do believe that if someone is employed based on the contents of a CV which contains deliberate lies and misinformation, the offence of Obtaining Pecuniary Advantage by Deception, which is, or was, a section of the Theft Act 1968. As a Police officer in late 1989, I arrested a man who had gained employment, using this tactic, with the local Social Services office. He was charged with the offence and found guilty.
Penseivat

A K Haart said...

Penseivat - yes, it seems like an open and shut case to me. If he isn't prosecuted, we may as well assume it's the old two tier system operating, which would be no surprise.