Lie on a resume?
Lie on a resume?
#1Lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 3:33pm
I'm trying to get a job in a restaurant because as an actor, it's pretty much the sweetest deal as far as a survival job goes. I've never actually worked in a restaurant, but I have catered, and been a volunteer waiter for charity dinner's in the past. This experience is on my resume, but it is never enough to hiring managers.
Several of my friends have lied and put a fake restaurant on their resume with a friend or sibling as their supervisor, and they've all been hired at various restaurants in NY. Other actors I meet at auditions have told me this is a very common practice.
I'm considering doing this. I hate to. It's dishonest, and could really come back to bite me in the butt if it leaked. But it seems to be the only way.
Your thoughts?
#2re: Lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 3:48pmOh, please don't. Cheating on one thing will just make you feel like it's okay to cheat in other aspects of your career and your life as well.
#2re: Lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 3:53pm
Don't think of it as lying. Think of it as retcon. ;D
Or just take the traditional route and embellish a little. You volunteered for a dinner for a cat charity one time last summer? Nossir! You worked for a prestigious restaurant named Le Chat in 2008!
Okay, maybe don't take it *quite* that far. But you get the idea. 
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#3re: Lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 3:53pm
It's dishonest, and not only could it come around and bite you in the ass, but it's a bad precedent to set.
Don't do it. It's hard enough to find work as an actor - what are you going to do when you're blacklisted from work as a waiter?
#4lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:01pm
are you kidding me? it's a survival job not a stepping stone to a prestigious career in the food services industry. f*** that. will the restaurant manager haunt you forever more? please.
blacklisted as a waiter? in nyc???? leaked to who? people it's a restaurant. there are a million of them. c'mon. this is like being worried that someone is going to pull your junior high school transcripts.
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#6lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:11pm
Blacklisted?!
hahahah....sorry, but the idea that there's some network where people are keeping track of those who've lied on their waiter resume?! PLEASE! It's a white lie that is half assumed anyway. If you stink, they'll know that you lied and fire you...then you go down the street and apply there.
Keeping track of those who HAVENT lied would be easier.
Just dont claim to be able to do something unless you can do it. You'll be fine.
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#7lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:13pm
I'd lie. It's tough out there and you gotta do what you gotta do...
Besides, I'd assume that so many people do this that the restaurants almost expect it. They are not going to do deep background checks for a waiting gig. I wouldn't worry about it.
#8lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:17pm
"this is like being worried that someone is going to pull your junior high school transcripts."
BUT we were told it was going on OUR PERMANENT RECORD!!!
#9lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:23pmhaha. Thanks guys. I think I may just bite the bullet and do it. If folks do it all the time and get away scot free, why the heck not?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#10lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:23pm
I don't really think it is necessary. If you have no waiting experience just emphasise your skills such as "great working under pressure, getting along with all types of people,multi-tasking, quick learner, team player, etc." I mean, you won't get hired at a 5 star place, but everyone has to start somewhere.
But if you feel you must pad it, expect them to check references and past work places. These days Google has made that sort of thing so easy. If you make up restaurant in Arizona they can just google it and if it doesn't exist...well, you get the idea.
#11lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:26pmi almost went back and added, "and jftr: there is no effin' permanent record!"
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#12lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 4:30pm
How's this for a safe lying option? Apply to a restaurant where one of your lying friends has already been hired, and put the same restaurant and reference as they did (with their "reference"'s permission, of course). Then you already know it'll work and the risk is minimal. :3
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#14lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:00pm
I can't recall ever even having to have a resume when I waited tables. I just filled out an application.
I lied and put a fake restaurant on the app for the first waitressing job I had, but I just told them it had gone out of business, therefore no # to call for a reference.
#15lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:04pm
haha. Thanks guys. I think I may just bite the bullet and do it. If folks do it all the time and get away scot free, why the heck not?
I think there's almost no chance of getting caught, but I wish you wouldn't do it anyway. Because it's a question of personal integrity. If you do something that you normally wouldn't, that makes it the 'new normal,' and then you feel like it's okay to lie and cheat to do other things. It's not something you want to start doing.
#16lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:13pmStockard, that's genius. I'm trying to get a waitress job for the summer while I get my bartending license, and I'm so going to use that. Ha!
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#19lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:36pm
If it helps any with your respect levels, I've never lied on my CV (resume). Which is probably why I'm still working retail and would never judge someone who'd choose to submit a non-true version of their work history in the Great Jobhunt of Life.
#20lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:40pmI've never lied either. Hooking and drug trafficing are much more profitable and there's no reference checks.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#21lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 5:46pmWell I never lied on a RESUME......just a waitressing application. LOL!
#22lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:22pm
LOL Somms!!
I would lie.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#23lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:26pmBartending LICENSE? What state requires a license to tend bar?
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#24lie on a resume?
Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:28pmI have no idea, but apparently where Jag lives they do.
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