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

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. 

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  • 01

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

    Automotive parking light - O It won't be until this afternoon or early morning. I was rear ended on my way. Not sure how much more could go wrong. Just spoke to HR. I'm waiting on AAA and police just got here. A Today 8:56 AM A Hey Let me know when you get here I can come down and bring you up to your office and we can start a little bit of your onboarding I'm so sorry we will see you when you get here! iMessage Delivered

    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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  • 02
    Organism - After 2 months of jumping through hoops, g tests, background checks, and a few other "incidents" our new employee was meant to start this morning. The rest is history.
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    The poster's company did some checking around and found out...

    Wheel - 9:05 7 TinEye 31 results Searched over 53.1 billion images in 1.1 seconds for: 658281CF-1F11-4CE7-8BD2-3CA7DF2FC767.jpeg Paste or enter image URL Show only 12 results found in stock Using TinEye is private and we do not save your search images. DO r Sort by best match We stand with Ukraine Filter by website / collection AA tineye.com Ć = Q
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    ...that the employee just googled "car crash" or something, and pretended it was their own wreckage

    Font - 9:05 7 Filter by website / collection shu D r AA STOCK SPONSORED stock.adobe.com images/Modern-car-accident-involving-... - First found on Oct 24, 2021 STOCK SPONSORED www.shutterstock.com pic-733006501/stock-photo-modern-car... First found on Oct 17, 2017 www.rd.com advice/travel/driving-tips/ - First found on Dec 8, 2018 view image (760 x 506, 63.1 kB) levinsonlawgroup.com rear-end-accidents/ - First found on Apr 11, 2021 view image (5472 x 3648, 10.1 MB) www.vikingmotors.ca can-minor-r
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    Then, the employee got the boot.

    Font - HR informed me that I was no longer offered the position. I'm sorry you doubted me and I wish you all the best. My sincere apologies and I WAS truthful regardless what you may think. Thank you again,
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    Sky - K krugle I always loved the line "I'm sorry you doubted me" such an underhanded way to push off any accountability.
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    Sky - R randon820 Someone was suspicious or they would have never done the image search. Not sure why someone would play this game on their first day.
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  • 08
    Sky - H Hippychicka Why include a photo
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    Sky - chaispacelatte I'm guessing they were suspicious because the pic was badly cropped
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    Font - canthecatcome2 As a hiring manager this makes me cringe. I've been lied to more times than I can recall. I don't let it ruin my days anymore though
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  • 11
    Sky - JasonThorn The truth means never having to worry about keeping your story straight.
    Via JasonThorn
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    Sky - mikeatike Didnt even bother cropping the black bars off.
    Via mikeatike
  • 13
    Sky - J Jordan7831 Protip. Use "family emergency" instead. People will never question it.
    Via Jordan7831
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  • 14
    Sky - E encrypteddecryption Catching liars in the act is such a thrill
    Via encrypteddecryption
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    Sky - Someoneisinmyhead Worked w/ a guy, claimed he hit a deer, when he and his gf showed the next night. No damage to car. Was doimg overnights at toys r us then.
    Via Someoneisinmyhead

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