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DonkeyHody
 
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Default Should I fire this guy because he bought his degree from the internet?

This is shameless spam for his website. He was already busted in
another group. I just happened to see it last night. See the post
below.

DonkeyHody


LOOK WHAT HE POSTED ON ALT.AUTOS (below)


I think this spammer just got BUSTED !!!!


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A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a senior mechanic for
a small radiator shop I run in California. He always seemed like a
pretty competent worker. Thomas had great personal skills, came into
work on-time, and pretty much completed projects better than any of
the
other techs in our facility. He seemed like a pretty intelligent guy,
actually. I've even had dinner with his wife and young daughter on
occasion. I generally consider him a friend.


The other day I invited him to my house to hang out and have a few
drinks. At one point in the evening we were shooting the **** and
talking about the worst things we've ever done in our lives. I
regaled him with a tale about how I stole expensive clothes from
department stores as a teenager and he told me about how he once sent
explicit pictures of his cheating ex-girlfriend sodomizing a
toothbrush
to her parents. I laughed and passed him another drink.


I guess he was getting a little too tipsy because a little later he
related a story about how he got his college degree in philosophy. We
don't require college degrees, but we generally hire and give greater
pay to candidates with the degree over the candidate without one.
Thomas said that he bought it off the internet for $450 from some
website called
http://www.diplomaforge.com and listed it on the resume
he sent my secretary. I've heard this website discussed on these
forums a few days ago. Apparently they represent universities who
grant
degrees based on "work history" and "life experience." Now I
don't know what to do. Company policy is to terminate people who lie
on their resumes, but he doesn't seem like that bad of a guy. The
website he got his degree from looks like what they're doing is
pretty unethical since there's no coursework involved. But I guess
the degree is technically legal. Should I fire him because he bought
his degree from the internet instead of attending a regular
university?


What he did was pretty crooked. I think I might decide to fire him
over
this. If you were his employer what would you do?