Begrudged ex-employee exposes boss' fraudulent Masters and PhD, gets them revoked: 'The university just thanked me'

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    r/pettyrevenge u/Tiredworker27 • 21h My boss fired me - So I took his Masters and PhD title
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    I had a rich boss once - that was only rich because of the wealth from his (Grand) Parents. Guy was a complete and utter moron. He made nonsensical financial decisions and burned through hundreds of thousands of Dollars in completely avoidable mistakes. But because he had money from his ancestors he just shrugged of these losses and continued.
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    He had also only but the faintest idea about his company or how to lead or keep employees. I was bascially keeping the company together. As such I was the Nay-sayer that blocked 90% of his stupid plans and decisions. Due to my "negativity" I was fired.
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    The guy was also arrogant as because he had a Masters and PhD in economics. I though "no way in can this guy have a Masters/PhD hes so stupid". So I searched for his Masters and PhD thesis - went to the University library - and what a surprise on the second page of his Master Thesis found a text passage without citation. After like 40 minutes I found another 10 passages he copied without citation. I spent only some 20 Minutes examining his PhD thesis and found already 2 cases.
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    I made pictures of the text passages he copied and the books from where he took them and wrote an anonymus Email to the University. A year later he lost both his Masters and PhD because of his plagiarism. I know this from people that still work with him because he exploded - the university just thanked me but told me they cant provide further info due to data protection.
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    So either he had a ghost writer write it for him who - didnt care or he just copied and thought he would never be cought. He wrote both in the 80s.
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    Chances are many Masters and PhD theses from these times are plagiarised because there were less possibilities to check. After all imagine its 1985 and you are at the University of Chicago and during a trip to Miami you visit the library and write of a thesis there. If you change the title, there is almost a 0 chance that you will ever be caught. So if you have stupid bosses/people around you with a degree that are older and did you wrong - it might be worth your time to check their thesis
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    punklinux. 19h I had a customer tell me that having a PhD on their letterhead was a "sure-fire way to get government contracts." As in, when making a proposal, if they said one of their team had a PhD in electrical engineering or something, they'd get to the top of their heap, especially if the project had specs requiring it. "So, do they check to see of these people actually have PhDs?" "No." "Sounds unethical." "Everyone is doing it." No idea if that's true or not, but there you go.
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    barracudan 12h • And here I came in to this thread after reading the title thinking that you just stole his framed diplomas from his office or something
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    Blacksmith NZ • 14h I have doubts about the story, but have worked with somebody who claimed to have a PhD that I believe was fake. It is surprisingly hard to verify. In my case I was a consultant working for a large government owned utility. A lot of work, and I was being pulled in as a consultant as they didn't have a lot of experts in the IT system they were using. I had suggested they hire more people in the department to build more knowledge in-house, and they were excited to finally find s
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    After a couple of meetings I quickly figured out he was full of . He would repeat stuff back, use some buzz words but never seemed to contribute anything technical and would never give a straight answer to anything. About 6 weeks into the project, he was supposed to make a key architecture decision we had been waiting on re the new system, and he presented it in a big meeting with all parties; showing a power point of my work I had done detailing options, but no decision. When I pushed him for a
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    I then tried to figure out how they employed him and if he really had the skills. Everything reeked of fake; the PhD was granted at a low end university in the UK who didn't do many PhD programs and no signs of anything he had produced online. He supposed ran a big department in the corporate in the UK, but no signs of that and he would have had the position young with little experience. Had a friend in the UK who I asked to check details, but university would not confirm details due to privacy
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    In the end, I changed job, and I later discovered he moved on from that government department within ~a year, and seemed to go to another similar job for 6 months. Seems to have changed job (and country) very regularly for a while and has not worked in the industry in more recent years. Suspect others discovered what I did, but still surprised recruitment agents don't seem to really check qualifications and that universities don't have easy look up to verify people got the qualifications they sa
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    sheissonotso • 11h Lmao knew a dude who straight up lied about graduating from Clemson and made almost 200k a someone off and they figured and got him fired. year until he out he was full of Honestly, he totally deserved it. He was such a creep, he was my older brother's friend who started hitting on me as soon as I was 18. My older brother is 9 years older btw.
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    marmitespider ⚫ 11h I have some super smart friends who hold PhD's. They only bring out the "Dr" honorific when dealing with govt departments or other businesses where productivity and effectiveness go to die.
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    pngtwat. 11h Yeah I hear you. My boss had an awful boss called a guy with the surname Tierno. He was a ring knocked and loved talking about "how his former employment made his understand our business better" (note - we were in the oil business and I don't think Army training makes you better at it). So I rang up a friend who was at the time a major in the US Army. He told me "yeah look he doesn't have black marks but he looks like he just got through WP and did the bare minimum but his dad is a
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    wiesenleger 4h I dont know if it is different in other countries but politicians are getting caught here on a somewhat regular basis and they are loosing their phds. its kinda funny..

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