DIYbanter - View Single Post - Should I fire this guy because he bought his degree from the internet?

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A couple years ago I hired a guy named Thomas as a senior tech for a
small datacenter 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.

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 The Transnational Council for something something.

Is it a legally recognized degree? If it is, then technically he wasn't
lying.

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?

He's done a good job, but assuming the degree isn't legally recognized
then he lied on the resume.

Your previous policy was to fire them, so you'd be best off sticking
with that.

However, you could always let him re-apply along with everyone else.
Given that he's got a good work history with your company, that would
logically weigh in his favour.

Chris