'I'm sorry you doubted me': Employee's job offer gets revoked after they boldly lie to company during onboarding

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Apr 10, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

It's never been harder to lie to your employer, thanks to the power of modern tech. But this employee found that out way too late, because they clearly didn't think through the consequences of lying about a car accident.

As some folks in the comments reflected, if you needed to be late to work or lie to your boss in the past, it wasn't that difficult. This person, though, didn't count on being fact-checked by a website that tells you where a photo can be found online. When the employee's photo of their "car crash" was put into the site, it produced tons of times the image had been used. This lack of originality led to the lie being found out — after months of preparing for the gig.

After that, check out these people who tried some DIY activities that didn't go quite as planned.

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First, the poster included a screenshot from the employee on a seemingly bad day

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But as you can see, the picture they sent still has black bars on the side, which raises suspicions that it's not an actual photograph from the scene of the accident.
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The poster's company did some checking around and found out...

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...that the employee just googled "car crash" or something, and pretended it was their own wreckage

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Then, the employee got the boot.

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