I found out one of my coworkers has been lying about his military service on applications. What can I reasonably do about this? Do reports to the Inspector General get taken seriously?
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I found out one of my coworkers has been lying about his military service on applications. What can I reasonably do about this? Do reports to the Inspector General get taken seriously?
Fuck his and ya mudda
>valour
So, seeing as how you are not from the US then nothing is to be done about it.
I live in the US, my parents are bongs
If he claims to have gotten certain medals or awards then it is a Federal crime. Otherwise not.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, he’s committing fraud.
Why don’t you speak with your HR about it? Also how did you figure out this guy was full of shit?
The biggest issue here is he’s using false military claims as career incentives and a lot of businesses selectively hire veterans through programs. If he’s claiming he’s a veteran and has been officially recognized as such by your employer, I’m assuming he submitted a DD214 to them as proof of service. That specific act would be fraudulent if he somehow falsified his DD-214
He showed me a corporal insignia pin even though he claimed to be Navy. Dude also claimed to be EOD but didn't know that the dogs are all trained down at Lackland.
It's just a wagie job (I'm in college) so they don't require a DD214 at all.
>Starbucks Stolen Valor
Is this worth your time, anon? Kids lie all the time.
I'm EOD and I didnt know that. We didnt have dogs in EOD, at least not in the army. Dog handlers are a different mos and a dog/handler team was tasked to us as needed.
I had this situation at work where this midwit was claiming to be a combat controller and telling stories about how he was shot while tracking down the Iraqis on the card deck in desert storm. I just let everyone know he was full of shit and everytime he'd talk about being a combat controller I'd express doubt with a smug face, drove him insane. His 'bit' was acting all crazy so everyone thought he was a crazy old desert storm veteran but he ended up looking like a weird schizo. He was fired for other reasons because he fucking sucked..
Some I met from his old job also tipped me off to it. Apparently he's a pathological liar who's also abusing his girlfriend. I have a friend who's for realsies EOD looking into it for me.
If true the company is better off without him. If he has an accident at work he'll lie about it instead of just telling them what happened so they can fix it and it will become a larger problem. Imagine it becomes large enough that the company is put in jeopardy and a whole bunch of people lose their jobs.
Management may already know he's a problem but confirm it. If they brush you off either they do know and they don't want to feed the rumor mill or they're legitimately stupid and they deserve what they get.
>pathological liar who's also abusing his girlfriend
You got a deadass psycho on your hands and make sure it's not traceable back to you when you tip off HR. Stop fucking around and get this ghoul outta there, you don't want to be around this guy.
Imagine being proud of being a zogbot lmao
Every time I apply for anything, I tell them I'm a transgendered veteran Native American descendant of slaves, that's why I don't pay a dime for gas, electric, car insurance, phone, internet or food
Imagine constantly searching and listing after attention. Attention whore
Send an anonymous tip HR
Legally, it's only a crime if they intentionally misrepresent having been awarded medals for an explicit personal gain.
Lying about deployments or training is still pretty scummy and definitely grounds for dismissal if they misrepresented themselves on their resume, but it's not a crime at that level.
If you really think he's bullshitting you, ask him to bring in his DD-214. That has a record of all his training, deployments, and medals. If he says it's classified or he lost it or something then you know he's a fraud because the VA automatically gets sent a copy upon discharge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013
The issue with that is he never explicitly claimed to have received a purple heart from the IED he "was injured by"
Snitch detected.
There's a difference between snitching and calling lying fucks out.
No, that's exactly what snitching is.
Snitches are shit-head criminals tattling on other shit-head criminals. When it's a law abiding citizen telling on a criminal, it's called being a good citizen and doing your part to uphold rule of law.
You could just give a Tipp to HR (that exists to protect the company) that the person X might have lied on the application because of these indicators X,y,z. Thus there is reasonable concern that they lied about other thing too. Like job qualifications, experience, skills. A simple check with the respective authority like the VA would help to clear up all issues and shield the company from any liability since they did their due diligence. A proof of service is not considered intrusive as most people are proud to have served.
Do nothing
get him fired you can also get him on stolen valor charge
>Lieing on applications
If he only lied to HR to get the job who the fuck cares?
I get he's a POS if he's bragging to coworkers or people in his personal life pretending he served but everyone lies to get a job its just how it works and if you snitch on him for a resume your a much bigger loosed then him.
No gay, if he's lying to get a position, then that is the ONLY resume management gets to see unless there are other resumes from vets. If you're competing for that position, then yes, OP, you should report him to HR, OIG and everyone else you can think of. Fuck this asshole and everyone in the "i got mine" culture.
>then that is the ONLY resume management gets to see unless there are other resumes from vets
Lol. do americans really?
yes. Particularly in the fed gov, there is are tiers of competition. Generally, vets get the top tier. They still have to be qualified to do the job, but if they aren't disqualified on those grounds, they are the first group considered. If this group ha any members, those are the resumes submitted for the position. If nobody exists in this tier, or they are all eliminated, then it goes to the next tier; people already working in the agency looking to promote or transfer. Third tier would be new hires.
This is one reason the VA is absolutely stacked with vets.
None of your business
Who do I call to report this dude for both claiming to be a woman and claiming to be an admiral?
He even claims he won six medals for anti-COVID operations
You are a attention whore
ESL retard
Not even in the military.
My great uncle is partakes in stolen valor too. He pretends to be a Marine, he wears a USMC veteran hat and flies their flag over his trailer lot. He likes to tell stories to anyone he meets about his days in Vietnam. He would tell me and my cousins about it when we were kids, and we believed him for years until our grandma told us the truth.
He's a thin little guy with a sense of humor, always drunk on lite beer, and blasts mariachi music all night. I don't think I've ever seen him once without a beer in his hand.
Do you have a beef against him? It's just a dude trying to make ends meet in a world riddled with all sorts of perfidy just to make an extra buck or two. He's small fry, what does something happening to him amount to?