Let the Lying George Santos Keep His Seat
One day, during a previous job, our PR team received a new employee with little warning. I immediately went to LinkedIn to find this mystery person, to no avail — I think this is the only person I have crossed paths with professionally who doesn’t have a LinkedIn page.Through a Google search, I found some self-generated content that hyped a well-connected political operative. (We were a publicly traded digital company.)During our first meeting, I asked if this person knew a high-profile friend of mine from one of his "political" jobs.“Of course, I do, he's a great guy,” was the reply.
My response was, “You do?" "Yes," they said. "He died two weeks ago.”The point is this person lied on his resume, or whatever he submitted to HR, and when I went to HR repeatedly with evidence that he lied nothing was done.He remained, and I was pushed out.I’ve been thinking a lot about this incident of dereliction by my old employer with all the news about GOP congressman-elect George Santos who was elected the Republican representative of New York’s third district that includes much of Long Island.My hope is that the Republicans take a cue from my old employer, and ignore his lies.Just a week before Christmas, when Santa checked those lists, The New York Times revealed that Santos’ list was a long one of lies.
Santa didn’t have time to check the list twice since it was a mile long. Santos is the definition of naughty.Yesterday, The New York Post published an interview with Santos where he admitted that he "embellished" his resume.
Embellishing might be adding more responsibilities under one of your job descriptions or fudging the year you graduated from college in order to appear younger.
