Friday, October 05, 2007
Lying on the job
* Lying at work can be detrimental to your career
* It can also ruin the workplace for your colleagues
When an employee rang to say he needed time off work to attend his mother’s funeral overseas, the boss, Simon Lane, felt terrible for the guy.
He rang the employee to personally give his condolences, only to find the “dead” mother answered the phone.
“Not surprisingly that employee didn’t come back to work,” Mr Lane, managing director of Offsite Human Resources, said.
In fact he heard the man had moved interstate to get as far away from the lie as possible.
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