Re: Should I fire this guy because he bought his degree from the internet?

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Subject: Should I fire this guy because he bought his degree from the
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A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a senior tech for a
small airport I run in California....


<zergzerglol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a repairman for a gym
> I run in California. He always seemed like a pretty competent worker.
> Thomas had great personal skills, came into work on-time, and pretty
> much completed projects better than any of the other techs in our
> facility. He seemed like a pretty intelligent guy, actually. I've
> even had dinner with his wife and young daughter on occasion. I
> generally consider him a friend.
>
> The other day I invited him to my house to hang out and have a few
> drinks. At one point in the evening we were shooting the *** and
> talking about the worst things we've ever done in our lives. I
> regaled him with a tale about how I stole expensive clothes from
> department stores as a teenager and he told me about how he once sent
> explicit pictures of his cheating ex-girlfriend sodomizing a toothbrush
> to her parents. I laughed and passed him another drink.
>
> I guess he was getting a little too tipsy because a little later he
> related a story about how he got his college degree in philosophy. We
> don't require college degrees, but we generally hire and give greater
> pay to candidates with the degree over the candidate without one.
> Thomas said that he bought it off the internet for $450 from some
> website called http://www.diplomaforge.com and listed it on the resume
> he sent my secretary. I've heard this website discussed on these
> forums a few days ago. Apparently they represent universities who grant
> degrees based on "work history" and "life experience." Now I
> don't know what to do. Company policy is to terminate people who lie
> on their resumes, but he doesn't seem like that bad of a guy. The
> website he got his degree from looks like what they're doing is
> pretty unethical since there's no coursework involved. But I guess
> the degree is technically legal. Should I fire him because he bought
> his degree from the internet instead of attending a regular university?
>
>
> What he did was pretty crooked. I think I might decide to fire him over
> this. If you were his employer what would you do?
>


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