04-18-2010, 06:42 PM
Quote:"Doctor" Richard Clark applied to join Coopers Lybrand's consulting practice in Ottawa to head its management section. Coopers required professionals to have university degrees. In a resume provided to the firm and later sent out to potential clients, Clark purported to hold a BSc, MSc and PhD.http://www.working.com/winnipeg/resource...story.html
Two years later, Coopers Lybrand learned he held none of these degrees and immediately fired him. He sued for wrongful dismissal. Not only did he lose the case, which proceeded to the Ontario Court of Appeal, but he had to reimburse the firm $47,000 for lost work when clients discovered Clark was not who he said he was.
Not known is whether the $47,000 reimbursement was gross or net Coopers' contributory negligence for not checking out his credentials in the first place. But it seems like a similar situation to Mayor Bologna's.
Using her logic, Clark could have saved the day if he just had hit the internet and bought himself a handful of Redding quickies. FAIL! She better hope somebody doesn't start thinking about reimbursement angles on her.
But this points out one (of many) reasons why these stalker "mill buster" idiots are so ridiculous. If you are going to lie about a degree, why spend good money for a dodgy degree from someplace nobody ever heard of, that raises more issues than it solves? Instead, you can lie (for free) and say you have a degree from a good school (like, say, San Jose State). I would wager that there are far, far more people scamming with "real" degrees than with "fake" degrees. That is, claiming nonexistent bachelor's degrees from well-known accredited schools like SJSU rather than associate's degrees from obscure unaccredited places like Redding.
So if somebody was really interested in serving the public interest, wouldn't they be trying to raise employer awareness about making the minimal effort to verify degree claims (usually nothing more than an email to the registrar), rather than trying to run all the unaccredited schools out of business?
Well, obviously the stalkers have no interest in helping the public. They are more concerned with helping themselves (self-promotion), shilling for and protecting the wealthy higher education cartel (closing the market to startups and cut-rate competitors), and eliminating non-conforming doctrine (i.e., religion) from the marketplace.