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Woman Called Out New Coworker On Lying About Her Language Skills, Asks If She Went Too Far

By Danish Faheem
5 months ago
5 minutes read

We must never lie about the skills we have in our arsenal, especially in the workplace. You never know when they might ask you to showcase that very skill, you will be left with nothing but a bowl full on embarrassment because you never knew sh*t about it.

That is exactly what happened in the story we have got for you guys today. Reddit user throw_friescountry who speaks Dutch and French fluently, was excited when Cathy, a new joiner, claimed to be fluent in these languages. However, when OP spoke Dutch, Cathy didn’t understand a word, revealing her lies before everyone in the office.

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Source: Reddit

Image Credits: Kindel Media (not the actual photo)

1. Let’s find out!

2. When Cathy joined the workplace, everyone was quick to realize she was a loud person.

3. One time in the breakroom with two colleagues and OP, Cathy brought up the topic of traveling and that she had visited a lot of exotic countries.

4. Cathy then mentioned she knew three foreign languages, including French and Dutch, and bragged that she spoke those languages at a native level.

5. What she didn’t know was that OP spoke Dutch and French too, as she was raised in Belgium.

6. OP got really excited and asked Cathy something in Dutch.

7. Cathy didn’t understand a word and blamed OP’s “terrible accent” and her not being “that good at it” for it.

8. OP responded by telling Catchy she fluently spoke Dutch and used that language to communicate with her family all the time.

9. OP told Catchy where she was from, and the languages she spoke fluently, and also offered to communicate in French if Dutch wasn’t understandable.

10. With no other options left, Catchy got up angrily and left the wrong.

11. Catchy later confronted OP by saying she embarrassed her in front of everyone. OP had no idea she was lying in the first place.

12. After hearing she was being called rude words by Catchy all around the office, OP took the matter to the courts of the AITA community.

Here’s what the internet had to say about this:

13. We must never lie on our CVs.

Via Glittering-Pizza-568

14. The position is clear like a crystal.

Via shihtzup**s

15. HR definitely needs a heads-up on this.

Via Redditor

16. I do not know what this means, but it sounds like a good shot.

Via steffenrem

Who was she even kidding? Catchy tried being fancy by mentioning she knew all those languages thinking “Who would ever speak these languages?”, right? Well, this conversation with OP was a major newsflash for her. OP didn’t even know she was lying, she just got excited that there was finally someone in the office she could communicate with in other languages. Turns out, she will have to do more waiting.

17. A few months later OP shared an important update.

18. OP chose not to go to HR but she did document everything that happened in the breakroom.

19. OP thought things would settle down by themselves but Catchy kept being cold to OP.

20. Cathy continued with her lying habit by telling everyone that OP had said some mean things to her in Dutch.

21. As the word spread, HR took notice and called in OP. Cathy’s views had already been recorded and registered.

22. OP told the full story and everything that happened in the break room and even got the two colleagues, who were there, to testify.

23. The Company finally fired her after another episode of lies where she said she did know all those languages but wasn’t able to prove it again.

24. Cathy finally admitted she didn’t know any of those three languages.

25. People who believed in Cathy also ended up apologizing to OP after she got fired.

Let’s see how everyone reacted to the update:

26. They use it as a trait to show off.

Via Chica711

27. This applies to every single thing.

Via Sakawatchi

28. Imagine her coming across this comment section one day.