'He's a compulsive liar': Coworker always one-ups everyone else in the office, gets caught in a lie, HR intervenes

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    Table - "Entitled Coworker Finally Got His Due!" TECI Jun 2
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    Font - Entitled Coworker Finally Got His Due! M 5+ years ago, I worked in an office with a coworker (EC) that always one upped you. If you had good news, he had better news. If you had a weekend, it was nothing compared to his. A coworker came in looking distraught, and we finally coxed it out of her that her mom was recently diagnosed with malignant breast cancer. EC over heard and suddenly his dad was diagnosed with penile cancer and a heart attack on the same day. If looks could have killed,
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    Font - blah, blah, blah. Nothing ever happened. We knew he was full of it and there was no way half the stuff he said was true, but it wore you down! About 5 months later, we we're talking about our weekends on Monday. I casually mentioned that my nephew took State in both grade and weight in a recent wrestling tournament. Who shall be overhearing but EC! He swoops in, says, "My nephew has plenty of wrestling medals. I bet he's not as good as mine. What's his name? I want to pull up his ranking.
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    Font - I gave him the name because EC had jumped with both feet before I could tell my other coworkers that he's been Nationally ranked since he was 6 for both grade and weight class. I also didn't say that he had recently accepted a prestigious invitation to wrestle for an international wrestling club with a number of Olympians having come from the program.
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    Font - Winning state was a pre-qualifier to the program, but everyone knew he would get it done. I didn't know they posted stats for 4th graders online, but sure enough, he pulled him up on the office computer. It only took a minute before he closed the window and tried to change the subject. A small crowd had gathered at this point, so I grabbed his keyboard and with Ctrl, Shift, T, I reopened the window promptly. I don't know enough about wrestling stats to tell you how good he was, but others
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    Font - Least we forget, people then started asking about EC's nephew and his stats. EC was floundering and trying his best to back pedal, but no one would let him. We searched with his last name and got no one that it could be. EC then started saying it was his nephew on the other side. EC had bragged about being related to the governor, so we knew what name to search and still, no one the right age range to be his nephew.
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    Font - Suddenly EC yelled that he was in 2nd grade, so it wasn't online. My nephew's stats were online from first grade, so that was BS. Next came, "he lives in another state," but that didn't matter as he was quickly shown wrestlers from other states, clubs/leagues, amd even genders. EC's face was turning every shade shade of red before he finally stormed away yelling something about harassment and going to HR. HR did reach out, but we pointed out the blantant hypocrisy when others filed compla
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    Font - I stayed there another 10 or so months before I moved. EC still tried to insert himself into conversations and one up everyone, but all it took was someone saying, "how did your nephew do in wrestling this weekend?" and he shut up.
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    Rectangle - Beautiful-Damage-496 17 hr. ago Lol! If you told him you went to Tenerife on holiday he would have been to Elevenerife! 165 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Address_Glad 17 hr. ago Your nephew is the one to watch apparently. Keep us up to date over the years.
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    Font - eGrant03 OP. 11 hr. ago They recently accepted a job in Pennsylvania because Penn State is a feeder school to the Olympics. He's finishing up with 8th grade this year, but they're still planning for when, not if, he goes to the Olympics.
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    Font - straightouttathe 70s. 16 hr. ago Yeah, but I bet you didn't shut him down as quick as I shut my entitled coworker down...... actually I shut down TWO entitled coworkers in ONE day (BTW: I'm just messing around y'all in case it wasn't apparent!!) So glad you finally got him on something......but HR though......they don't seem very reliable...
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    Font - Sami Hami24 - 14 hr. ago There was a guy in our friendship group that was like this. Claimed he worked on a Nobel prize- winning project (a scientist that worked at the same hospital as him won), he was accepted into the astronaut training program (but couldn't do it for some reason), etc.
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    Font - So we decided to catch him in one of his whoppers. We started talking about the fantastic concert we'd been to a couple of days before (I think we said Aerosmith) and just played up how great it was. He, as expected, chimed in that he was there, knew the band, partied with them after the show...
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    Font - I'll give him credit that he took it with good grace when he got busted. Didn't make him stop doing it, though.
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    Rectangle - wolfpackTA 15 hr. ago . Wow. So much of that stuff is easily disproved, it sounds like he's a compulsive liar. Really annoying to be around.
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    Human body - KatieSu1 17 hr. ago He's pathetic and an egotist.

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