Employee lies on his resume and gets hired at a high-paying IT company, and now struggles with his day-to-day and fears yearly evaluation: 'My buddy basically taught me everything I know and helped me learn as I go'

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jul 17, 2026 4:00 PM EDT

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This employee should've gotten a job in acting; the way he pulled a performance and everybody believed it. I've exaggerated things on my curriculum when I was young, not to the extent of lying, but there were some exaggerations here and there, and I still didn't get hired!

I've heard so many stories of lucky applicants who got hired over casualties and then landed a job that gave them a huge jump-start in their careers. I remember back in the day, when I was studying marketing, there was this girl who got hired as head of marketing in a very important company, being a graphic design student with no experience in marketing whatsoever, just because the person who interviewed her for the role wasn't her actual manager (she had gone on leave). She then told me that the first year was absolutely chaotic and that she had to google every term they threw at her and how to do every little thing, but she never showed any distress whatsoever to her teammates and ended up learning. Now she has a lot of undeniable experience and a career that was handed to her by chance. Of course, luck only gets us in the door; the rest is always up to us.

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    The employee worried he's getting caught

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  • I lied on my resume to get hired at a high paying IT job.

    I was out of work for about 6 months and a buddy of mine that works a high paying IT job told me that there was an open
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  • position. I used to be in retail management and I never once checked anyone's previous job history or education, nor
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  • did I even know how to, outside of calling some references. Anyway, I put my application in and on my resume, I put that I
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  • worked for IT before and even put an actual company on the work history. I also put that I had a degree in Information technology. None of this
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  • was true. I ended up landing an interview and got hired a week later. I have now been with this company for 1 year today.
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  • My buddy basically taught me everything I know and helped me learn as I go. I regret my decision to lie on my resume because I'm
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    The employee trying to learn programming in two days

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  • honestly struggling pretty bad with my day to day. My buddy is tired of helping even tho he won't
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  • admit it. I'm going in for my yearly evaluation this Friday and I'm super nervous about it but I'm hoping for the best.
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  • CaptivePouts Lie got you in, now you're drowning. Only way out - become the person you faked.
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  • Ambitious-Pirate-505 Bro what? You had a year to go to school and get smart. YouTube Coursera C'mon Bro
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  • Katiebunnifeetx Exactly. At this point he actually has a year of real experience, so taking some courses and applying somewhere honestly could turn this whole mess into a legit career
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    The much feared meeting

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  • Hey, maybe his yearly evaluation is favourable, and he gets to keep the job, but given that situation, he will have to do something to learn a bit more about his position in order not to feel so stressed all the time. But wasn’t getting the job a great opportunity in itself?

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