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PLEASE STOP bragging about lying on your resume.

First of all, it’s not a good look for Antiwork. I like being part of a hardworking community that wants fair pay for their skills. Lying on your resume is not fair. There are people who were honest on their resume who didn’t get that job. Encouraging multiple people to lie on their resume isn’t encouraging fair pay at all, it’s just ammunition for employers to assume we’re all lying. Second of all, I don’t know why you’re bragging. YOU succeeded in lying to someone… for now. What happens if you get caught? What happens if you get someone else caught? What happens if “fake it till you make it” doesn’t work and you don’t know how to complete a job? And if this doesn’t apply to you, would you really want to take responsibility for someone else following your “advice” on Reddit and turning in a terrible job or…


First of all, it’s not a good look for Antiwork. I like being part of a hardworking community that wants fair pay for their skills. Lying on your resume is not fair. There are people who were honest on their resume who didn’t get that job. Encouraging multiple people to lie on their resume isn’t encouraging fair pay at all, it’s just ammunition for employers to assume we’re all lying.

Second of all, I don’t know why you’re bragging. YOU succeeded in lying to someone… for now. What happens if you get caught? What happens if you get someone else caught? What happens if “fake it till you make it” doesn’t work and you don’t know how to complete a job? And if this doesn’t apply to you, would you really want to take responsibility for someone else following your “advice” on Reddit and turning in a terrible job or getting caught?

Lying on your resume is unfair to employers AND other applicants to the job. If you’re going to do it anyway, I can’t stop you, but I cannot stand the type of person who feels the need to brag about it publically, especially when it drags down the Antiwork collective. I sincerely hope it’s not something encouraged by Antiwork as a whole.

EDIT: to be clear, some employers are butts. If you want to lie to them, you do you, I just don’t think it’s cool to brag about it. I don’t want to see news articles about those dang millennials are lying on all their resumes. Like, if you’re going to lie, don’t give the employers reason to believe others are lying too. Pull yourself together and keep it quiet. Me personally, I won’t do it on my own resume, which is my choice, and I get that it isn’t the choice you made. I’m just saying, bragging about it is just asking for employers to assume those darn Antiworkers are all lying. You KNOW the employers are butts like that.

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