Calculated gamble didn't work out

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I work for a state agency. We have recently hired a new receptionist. She interviewed with our head of HR, Mary, who hired her and she started on Monday.

Yesterday Mary catches me in the hall and tells me that the new receptionist is a triathlete. So I think, cool, and decide to go by and see how she is doing. After introductions, I ask her about her interest in Triathlons. It becomes apparent pretty early on that although she may have an interest in triathlons, she has no interest in actually doing one. (She claims that she can't ride a bike because she has a hip injury and cannot run do to an ankle injury). She stated that her boyfriend does triathlons.

I thought, "how weird." I mean why would someone mention in an interview that they were a triathlete when they totally were not. I didn't call her out on it, but she knows that I know.

Several hours later it hit me. How easy is it to say that you are a Triathlete when applying for an office desk job, because, really, what are the chances that anyone important is actually going to be able to call you on it. I mean, what are the chances that the Executive Director (highest position & boss over all of us), Assistant Director of one Department and General Counsel (me) at that agency all would be triathletes?

I wonder if she is going to feel obligated to do some Tri's now that she has found out all of management does them.

Ha-ha! It was a calculated gamble and 98% of the time you could get away with something like that. Just not here.

This really cracked me up.
 
Sounds like her little white lie to look good in a job interview totally backfired. oops.
 
I would never lie about something boring like being a triathlete. I'd say something like I'd killed a man in Chicago but never went to jail.
 
I like to keep my cardio up. I tell people I'm Tanizaki. And of course this leads them to try and chase me down and beat me up.
 
evolution said:
I like to keep my cardio up. I tell people I'm Tanizaki. And of course this leads them to try and chase me down and beat me up.
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Actually, most people try to ask me for some of my megabux. "Hell no, you hobo!" I say to them.

Also, your post was off-topic. Please give yourself an infraction.
 
I'd call her on it and video tape what happens when the boss find out. If it ends up being hilarious, or ends up in an injury, I'd send it to break.com to see if I could get 400 dollars.

But that's just me.
 
Is it possible she talked about liking triathlons (because of her boyfriend) and the HR lady mistakenly thought she meant she participated? Just a thought.
 
Tanizaki said:
Actually, most people try to ask me for some of my megabux. "Hell no, you hobo!" I say to them.

Also, your post was off-topic. Please give yourself an infraction.
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LOL

This takes me back to the days when I'd get infractions due to just plain ol' bias.
 
Tanizaki said:
Actually, most people try to ask me for some of my megabux. "Hell no, you hobo!" I say to them.

Also, your post was off-topic. Please give yourself an infraction.
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Actually the post was about triathlons. Triathlons require a lot of endurance. Thus my post being about endurance fits the criteria of being on-topic.

kthxbai.
 
I think it's more likely that she would find a boyfriend who does triathalons than do some herself. That's what Myspace is for! Or she'll say she just broke up with the boyfriend who does tri's. Either way, she got the job right? So we can't exactly say it backfired.
 
Prodigy,

Triathalons was not a necessary part of the job description. Under "interests" on her resume she wrote "Triathlons" as opposed to "My boyfriend who does triathlons."

Still thinks it's pretty funny. Our office actually sponsors a mini-tri inthe spring. We'll see who signs up. :rolleyes:
 
evolution said:
Actually the post was about triathlons. Triathlons require a lot of endurance. Thus my post being about endurance fits the criteria of being on-topic.

kthxbai.
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I hate having to endure chumps who went to public school. Things were so much better when I was a young tot because I was in gifted classes with all the other smart kids with huge brains. Now every day I have to go out into society and the intarwebz to deal with myspace kids and other mouthbreathers. It makes me want to listen to emo music.
 
RedT said:
Prodigy,

Triathalons was not a necessary part of the job description. Under "interests" on her resume she wrote "Triathlons" as opposed to "My boyfriend who does triathlons."

Still thinks it's pretty funny. Our office actually sponsors a mini-tri inthe spring. We'll see who signs up. :rolleyes:
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Let me see if I got this straight, she put triathlons under interests but didn't specifically state "competing in triathlons". Then I don't understand where the lie is.
 
Tanizaki said:
I hate having to endure chumps who went to public school. Things were so much better when I was a young tot because I was in gifted classes with all the other smart kids with huge brains. Now every day I have to go out into society and the intarwebz to deal with myspace kids and other mouthbreathers. It makes me want to listen to emo music.
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I hear you. I dropped out of public school and went straight to college. I liked college so much, I spent almost a decade there. I think I want to go back.

Oh! Are you still mad at me because I'm better looking than you are?
 
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Tanizaki said:
I was in gifted classes
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That sounds very much like a public school system. I mean if the private school was so classy why the need for gifted classes.

And before you go off, I went to private schools and public school there was no big difference. It really depends on what the student wants to get out of them.
 
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