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What's the biggest lie you've told at work?

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celtiagirl 0:00, reply

Of course I don't use internet messageboards

gordon_bennett 22:21, reply

That Morrissey's song lyrics might be a good way to teach students about business.

barq 17:08, reply

But I thought it was just a colourful flag sir news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7370903.stm

electrogal 15:59, reply

i work in marketing... lying is part of the job...

horsespider 15:43, reply

that i invented the phrase "i love lamp"

lambanana 15:14, reply

That I worked there.

mingus 13:30, reply

The Sergeant told me I was off the case and had to hand in my badge and gun. I told him I was going on holiday to Florida for two weeks, but I didn't. I went to the suspect's villa and had a shoot out with his security guards, before making my way to his office and shooting him in the head. Turned out actually did run a coffee importation business, which was a bit of a bummer.

kps_jockstrap 13:21, reply

I know what I'm doing.

jonmac 13:13, reply

I told my boss I had stress induced anxiety & I felt suicidal, he gave me the month off because he had the same problem.

I had a fucking Aces time in New Zealand! Cheers easy!

whats_the_beef_chief 11:48, reply

I told my boss that a Betacam video recorder that had come in for repair had been written off by the client and I had dumped it in a skip. In reality the unit had been written off by the client, but I managed to sell it to a mate on the quiet who gave me 2 grand cash for it.

mister_groping 11:09, reply

actually i played my cv down a bit...i'm very qualified but don't like to brag about it. took them three weeks to find out i wasn't a stokebroker at all and wasn't capable of handling million pound deals "for breakfast".

sgtpeppersstoneyhardcoreband 10:13, reply

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honk 9:42, reply

'Of course I promise to try harder'.

thegingerprince 9:33, reply

When I was a teenager down in Kent in the 80s I got a part time job on a boat. It didn't last very long as one night coming out of port I told them I'd shut the bow doors when I was actually having a kip on me bunk. Didn't go down very well....Actually that's a lie too, the ship went down very well.

roger_mycock 9:02, reply

What fire?

artificially_awake 8:57, reply

Wanking at work? how very dare you.... What CCTV?

lennie 8:52, reply

Of course I'll make deadline, don't worry.

opus 8:45, reply

Having discovered a colleague had masturbated in the office, and taken the piss without mercy, I denied having done the same. On a not unrelated note, I suggested the stain on the bathroom carpet was probably liquid soap.

spank_daley 8:42, reply

that i had no knowledge of the missing computers/laptops/mobiles/blackberrys... it's their own fault, they should have paid me more

shagpile_perm 8:37, reply

"No really, it's no problem at all."

muttleee 8:13, reply

I once replied to my boss in a growling voice 'IT WASN'T ME' ... at which point the whole office jumped up, and performed a humorous pop-reggae number. Whilst I was the natural lead in this performance,it was Dawn, the office Junior, who stole the show when she took on the role of RikRok. She said she could really get into it as she once went out with a black man, and so knew exactly what to do. It was just like those Halifax adverts, crossed with High School Muscial. If it was filmed, we'd have had over a million hits on YouTube by now.

7zark7 7:49, reply

Of course I am going to come back after my maternity leave!

tamara_bumpdeeay 7:31, reply

he was dead long before i arrived....

stretchermonkey 1:30, reply