Re: CON GAME BEWARE - he bought his degree from the internet?

Send Your Money to that email address and wave goodby.
This is a con game.

<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 datacenter 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 inserting a toothbrush
> into her ass 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.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 before.
> Apparently they represent universities who grant degrees based on
> "work history" and "previous college credits." There's no
> actual university attendance. Now I'm not sure 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. 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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