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

ZergZergLOL · 2006-01-16T21:11:05+00:00

Hey guys, I posted this on another board and the verdict I got was tofire him. Since I've been lurking here for a while I thought I'd postit here for some more advice.A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a senior tech for asmall data center I run in California. He always seemed like a prettycompetent worker. Thomas had great personal skills, came into workon-time, and pretty much completed projects better than any of theother techs in our facility. He seemed like a pretty intelligent guy,actually. On occasion I've even had dinner with his wife and youngdaughter who's going through chemo. I generally consider Thomas afriend.The other day I invited him to my house to hang out and have a fewdrinks. At one point in the evening we were shooting the shit andtalking about the worst things we've ever done in our lives. Iregaled him with a tale about how I stole expensive clothes fromdepartment stores as a teenager and he told me about how he once sentexplicit pictures of his cheating ex-girlfriend sodomizing a toothbrushto her parents. I laughed and passed him another drink.I guess he was getting a little too tipsy because a little later herelated a story about how he got his college degree in philosophy. Wedon't require college degrees, but we generally hire and give greaterpay to candidates with the degree over the candidate without one.Thomas said that he bought it off the internet for $450 from somewebsite called "The Transnational Council" for something something. Hewrote the domain on a napkin and said that he hadlisted the degree he got through them on the resume he sent mysecretary two years ago. I've heard this website discussed on someother message boards before. Apparently they represent universities whogrant degrees based on previous college credits, work history, andmilitary/life experience. Now I don't know what to do. Company policyis to terminate people who lie on their resumes, but he doesn't seemlike that bad of a guy. The website he got his...

Jan 16, 2006 20 Replies

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maradcliff 20 years ago

I can not believe how many people wasted their time responding to this SPAM. This same thing has been posted on dozens if not hundreds of newsgroups. It's not a troll, it's OUTRIGHT SPAM !!! They are trying to bait you to the website listed.

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