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

I don't know about that but the rest of us want to see the pictures.

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People think that accounting is a science, in the sense that it follows
logically prescribed rules and produces numbers that are irrefutable. Well
guess what, billb says that is hogwash. Fixing the price of a good requires
knowing the prices of all the inputs. And, prices of inputs are not
necessarily easy to calculate, and thus rely on the "art" of "experts."
Thus it's art. --billb

I blame MOTE (morons of the earth) too much. In fact, some very smart
people are responsible for the mess we are in. --billb
<ZergZergLOL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hey guys, I posted this on another board and the verdict I got was to
> fire him. Since I've been lurking here for a while I thought I'd post
> it here for some more advice.
>
> A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a senior tech for a
> small data center 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. On occasion I've even had dinner with his wife and young
> daughter who's going through chemo. I generally consider Thomas 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 "The Transnational Council" for something something. He
> wrote the domain http://www.tcge.org on a napkin and said that he had
> listed the degree he got through them on the resume he sent my
> secretary two years ago. I've heard this website discussed on some
> other message boards before. Apparently they represent universities who
> grant degrees based on previous college credits, work history, and
> military/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'll decide to go ahead and
> fire him over this. If you were his employer what would you do?
>


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