Word: fibbing
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...little good if the fox is already nestled inside. To unmask the deceivers among them, some employers are conducting checks upon promotion. Verified Person markets its ability to provide ongoing employee screening through automated criminal checks. With this increased vigilance comes a thorny new dilemma: figuring out whether every fib is really a fireable offense. Many bosses feel that a worker's track record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched résumé, says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Rather than booting talented workers, Challenger suggests, employers should offer an amnesty period. "A moratorium...
...could become a black-market commodity for particularly enterprising students planning on taking (but skipping) the class next fall. Not only can we eschew going to class in favor of watching it online, we can now register for classes online, so that if we’re willing to fib on the registration form and risk disciplinary action, the first time our presence is ever really required on campus isn’t until the end of shopping week when we get our study card signed and turn it in. And as of last spring, at the end of term...
...Although they had discussed marriage “on and off,†Ms. Gu says the proposal this past Valentine’s Day came as a “complete surprise.†The couple were so close by then that Mr. Zhang had to fib about his ring-purchasing expedition. He told Ms. Gu that he was “studying in Cabot†when he went to Tiffany?...
...that last bit is a fib, concocted for Ball's press biography by publicists for RKO, the studio she was under contract to in the late 1930s. They made it up because they--and the rest of Hollywood, for some two decades--had no idea how to best promote or cast the woman who in mid-life would become perhaps the most popular actress of the 20th century. Ball didn't easily fit any of the standard movie-star niches. The saucy girl from Jamestown, N.Y., was pretty (a former model) but not va-va-voom sexy; she was down...
...right now, the game in Washington is to pin the blame for the fact that a fib, conscious or unconscious, made it into the State of the Union address. And in a summer news trough, that's bad news for the White House...