I discovered yesterday that some random person is claiming to have ‘completed’ a certain classified ads site. He worked there for three months at the most, and I know for a fact that it wasn’t him developing the site anyway.
I found myself a tad angered at this, not necessarily on behalf of the classified ads site – they are too apathetic to do anything about it – but because there is no realistic way of preventing this blatant lie from existing.
I have quite a well-developed ‘offense against rightness’ sensitivity, and it agitates me no end to discover that people lie bare-facedly and unashamedly. Admittedly, the Internet makes it very easy to do this in a quasi-anonymous way and not have to face the people you are lying to, but there should be *something* done to defend truth and integrity as valuable character traits. It should most emphatically *not* be rewarding to be a weasel.
Full of righteous rage, I was all set to start up a new blog for outing blatant lies like this, but Phil pointed out, admittedly correctly, that I would, as they say in the vernacular, ‘get my arse sued off’. I could do with less arse, but I need to hold onto the pennies for that house on Mull.. So it stands uncontested, and it riles me.
What would be a more constructive (and less legally risky) way of Putting The World To Rights? People shouldn’t be able to get away with blatant lies like this.
This guy is going to use that ‘achievement’ to blag his way into yet another job where he can provide miniscule input but have another site to put on his portfolio page, repeat ad nauseum.
He’s the kind of person that gives ‘IT people’ a bad name – overstating achievements and underperforming. I remember when you used to have to have some kind of talent to work in IT. Now they let me do it. No, seriously, it used to be a skilled job. Now you just have to know the right words and claim other people’s work and you can get paid silly money as the people employing you haven’t a clue.
The IT infrastructure of just about everywhere is degrading at a frightening rate as we’re all in the hands of people who got ‘into IT’ because it was an easy way to make money as no-one knew if you were making it all up or not.
Large government IT projects are in the hands of muppets (no offense, my puppety friends) because the majority of people don’t understand technical things and are now in charge of them.
Oh it’s all doom, and it’s all caused by bloody liars.