Uncomfortable Work Situation (for me at least!)

Oh how awkward. I dont know if I could hold my tongue. I wonder why she felt she had to lie?

Erk - that's awful for you. Is she likely to know that you know?

I honestly don't know whether she will know - if she finds out I am working with the chap I am working with I suspect she will guess. Still, ha ha, won't be working back with her till next year!

Ouch - silly women for lying.

As my mother used to say cheaters never prosper!

Sx

How odd - why do you think she felt the need to lie? whats the massive difference between roles??

The difference between Head Honcherina and standard team member (at best).

I'm stewing on this - can you tell! God I need to get a life!

I'm irked and a bit hurt by it - which is daft.

All very odd

She lied - her fault. No reason for you to feel uncomfortable. Surely she must have realised that it would come to light at some point - she's lucky it didn't when she was referenced.

I can undestand why you are annoyed but surely everyone lies, i mean, exaggerates to get a job? Surely what counts is if she can do the job she is doing now. And seeing as you say she has been doing it for five years then that suggests her superiors are happy with her and she can indeed do the job?

I think it depends on what she claimed in her application and interview to get the job. Claiming a certain level of education for example is completely different to bigging your experience up.

Very true - and she is good at her job in the main.

The lying though has been constant and brought up at every given opportunity - utterly relentless references to her work at that level, entire team meetings taken up with tales of flying backwards and forwards and around the world rather than letting us get on with the meeting. My colleague and I did regard her as a friend as well (and I won't of course mention any of this to my colleague!) which I think makes me feel worse about the tales.

There's nothing I can do, or would do - there would be nothing to be achieved. I suppose I'm just venting a bit.

It seems like an odd thing to do. It would be one thing to exaggerate your role in a previous job on one or two occasions (when presumably she thought that the truth would never get out) but to continually lie over years, even when it's not necessary, to me suggests that she's either almost convinced herself that what she is saying is correct or else the story has got out of hand and she feels as though she has to keep lying to keep the pretence up.

Either way i'd keep the info to myself and just bear it in mind in any future dealings with her.