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icenine
11-18-2013, 03:13 PM
man there onto our game!


http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-cheating-students-government-jobs-corruption-20131118,0,2929974.story#axzz2l2ASU6le
Charles
11-18-2013, 04:59 PM
man there onto our game!


http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-cheating-students-government-jobs-corruption-20131118,0,2929974.story#axzz2l2ASU6le

I've always considered honesty to be my greatest personal flaw.

Chas
barbara
11-18-2013, 06:14 PM
When I first started as a gov employee I was told I was too honest and I needed to fix that if I expected to advance.
Lol.
Charles
11-18-2013, 06:48 PM
When I first started as a gov employee I was told I was too honest and I needed to fix that if I expected to advance.
Lol.

If you were truly TOO honest, you would have told 'em that you didn't give a shit about what they thought.

Chas
noonereal
11-18-2013, 06:57 PM
I've always considered honesty to be my greatest personal flaw.

Chas

honesty is not all it's cracked up to be alright
barbara
11-18-2013, 07:00 PM
If you were truly TOO honest, you would have told 'em that you didn't give a shit about what they thought.

Chas

That is exactly what I told them and it got me in a heap of trouble. Seems it was two members of the board if supervisors that wanted me to 'exaggerate' a bit on my reports to the state.
They couldn't fire me without exposing their dishonesty, but they did maneuver me out of that job. I came to work every day for two months with no job to work and insisted they give me work to do. I think they thought I would give up and disappear, but I needed the health insurance and wasn't about to leave when I had done nothing wrong.
I'm still here.... Those two board members are not.
Charles
11-18-2013, 07:25 PM
That is exactly what I told them and it got me in a heap of trouble. Seems it was two members of the board if supervisors that wanted me to 'exaggerate' a bit on my reports to the state.
They couldn't fire me without exposing their dishonesty, but they did maneuver me out of that job. I came to work every day for two months with no job to work and insisted they give me work to do. I think they thought I would give up and disappear, but I needed the health insurance and wasn't about to leave when I had done nothing wrong.
I'm still here.... Those two board members are not.

By God, you ARE honest to a fault.

We need more people like ya.

Chas
Charles
11-18-2013, 07:37 PM
honesty is not all it's cracked up to be alright

I kinda look at it like a concealed weapon.

It's a great thing to have, just pray that you never really have to use it.

Because you're gonna be sorry, even if you win.

Chas
icenine
11-18-2013, 07:46 PM
yes
it is sort of like mutually assured destruction
MAD
Rajoo
11-18-2013, 08:17 PM
Honesty is only an asset if everyone around you reciprocates.
Reminds me of Billy Joel's lyrics
"Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue"

But then I went to school in India, so I may be scarred. :)
bobabode
11-18-2013, 09:09 PM
Honesty is only an asset if everyone around you reciprocates.
Reminds me of Billy Joel's lyrics
"Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue"

But then I went to school in India, so I may be scarred. :)

You got caned too? Damned British school system.;)
Rajoo
11-18-2013, 10:36 PM
Oh yes. On my behind at home and on the palm at school. It was measured and never severe.
I went to an English language school where one of our motto's was, you got it:
Honesty is the best policy.
Not very many practiced it as cheating at exams was rampant.
Dondilion
11-19-2013, 10:26 AM
Honesty can be a dangerous attribute. Plata o plomo.
JJIII
11-19-2013, 11:15 AM
"There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it."

Mark Twain


- Following the Equator
piece-itpete
11-19-2013, 11:53 AM
Thread = win.

Reminds me of an old joke, every time the guy told a lie his, um, wang grew. He ended up being called honest joe or something like that, honest to a fault :)

Pete
Tom Joad
11-23-2013, 07:48 PM
I feel a song coming on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCXRf_Flps
donquixote99
12-17-2013, 09:54 PM
Tom! Come back!

I want to beat you up for posting that song!
MrPots
12-30-2013, 03:11 PM
Tom! Come back!

I want to beat you up for posting that song!

Let me have a swipe at him first....
Dondilion
12-30-2013, 04:28 PM
I believe the study is flawed. Just Indian students. In Bangalore
donquixote99
12-30-2013, 05:26 PM
Let me have a swipe at him first....

Tag team! :D
BlueStreak
12-30-2013, 09:52 PM
When I first started as a gov employee I was told I was too honest and I needed to fix that if I expected to advance.
Lol.

I was once told I would never advance because "......you care about those people (fellow employees) too much. You need to learn to not give a shit about them. That's what gets you ahead."

I was sitting there thinking, "What makes you think I want to be like you?":)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeqFqAi-CE

Dave