Can you believe this?

[East Coast Tiger]

This guy I know who is 24 recently admitted to his parents that, contrary what they thought, he never went to uni, certainly never graduated and has never had a job. Since he left school he's been lying to them about all of it. He has been getting up and going to "work" for years. His step dad was driving one day and saw him sitting in a park so he stopped and asked him what he was doing. He made up some bullshit about his work mates dropping him there and they would be back shortly and it was all work related. But his step dad started to wonder so he spoke to the company that the son had supposedly been working at since he finished uni (which he didn't) and they said they'd never heard of him. So it all came out. Basically he's been to a phychologist since and it's actually a story of depression and other mental health issues, as well as an odd relationship with the parents. But the size of the lie involved is certainly one to behold. And it would have continued had it not been for a chance encounter at the park. Six years of pretending to be a student and then working at this big company and all the little lies associated with maintaining such a story would have taken a hell of an effort. I think if some people knew the effort involved they'd probably give him a job for that alone.

There isn't really a question involved as such, apart from can you believe such a thing? Perhaps the question should be be what should happen in such a case because the welfare system will have to deal with it now. After all he doesn't have a job anymore. In fact because of the psychological issues involved he will be on a disability pension. Possibly forever.

 

[Fire]

Nah, he's a pup at 24. Plenty of time to sort his life out.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Never heard of anything like it before. It was amazing that he pulled it off. He must've been living on welfare for the last 6 years - centrelink or what have you. Anyway it sounds like a serious issue. Hopefully it's not permanent and treatable.

Best of luck to him.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The weird thing about it is he can't have been on any kind of welfare. He lived in his parents' house and they paid all the bills etc and he doesn't have a car. But even so I don't know how he managed to pay for anything else. It raises a lot of questions really.

 

[Danish]

They sound like some fairly involved parents...

 

[East Coast Tiger]

It wasn't just his parents though. His sister lived with him for quite a while and didn't know. Literally everyone who knew him believed all of it including friends, family and neighbours. His parents are quite odd and probably willing to believe what he said, but far from absent or disinterested to the point where you could imagine them missing obvious evidence that all was not as it seemed.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Bunniesman??

 

[Danish]

You'd think even a halfway involved parent would perhaps ask attend their Uni graduation, or at least be interested enough to ask to see their degree (which I'm guessing the bloke didn't create a forgery of) or perhaps questioned at some point over the 3 years why they didn't have a single textbook in the house (unless of course the guy bought all these and pretended to study for exams etc).

the lying about having a job part is much easier as it just involves leaving the house each morning and not returning till after 5pm, but the uni stuff you'd think even the most naive parent would pick up on.

 

[Fire]

Bunniesman??

lol. Tezza wins the internet!

 

[East Coast Tiger]

You'd think even a halfway involved parent would perhaps ask attend their Uni graduation, or at least be interested enough to ask to see their degree (which I'm guessing the bloke didn't create a forgery of) or perhaps questioned at some point over the 3 years why they didn't have a single textbook in the house (unless of course the guy bought all these and pretended to study for exams etc).

the lying about having a job part is much easier as it just involves leaving the house each morning and not returning till after 5pm, but the uni stuff you'd think even the most naive parent would pick up on.

I have a feeling he may have done some uni but not finished. I think maybe he "got the job" before he finished too so that might have had something to do with it. I don't know.

 

[Fire]

I read somewhere that once people tell a lie, and they continue to tell it, they actually start believing the lie themselves, so it becomes very easy to live the lie. I read it around the time Bill Clinton got outted for Monica Lewinsky thing.

 

[Danish]

I have a feeling he may have done some uni but not finished. I think maybe he "got the job" before he finished too so that might have had something to do with it. I don't know.

Ah ok. Makes more sense then. I guess the other notion is that as a normal thinking person (as I assume his parents/family/friends are) you'd never suspect that someone would be bullshitting you to that extent, so it would probably be hard to pick up on.

Sounds like a world class pathological liar to me. No idea how you can help someone as deluded as that, but I guess they'll find out if it is possible now that the cats out of the bag

 

[East Coast Tiger]

He's a weird guy. The quietest person you will ever see. That was more of a giveaway than anything else, but probably also how he managed to get by.

 

[Dogs Of War]

Had a flat mate who did that for 3mths, pretending to go to work etc, until the real estate came one day to evict us. Thank god I wasn't on the lease!

Always interesting what lengths people will go to, to keep up appearances. That all said, now its out, I'm sure it's a big weight off his mind, and now he can work out what he really wants to do.

 

[Didgi]

BunniesMan uncovered again... I wonder if he'll get as upset as last time.

 

[Ausguy]

Where did he sit if it was raining?

Just curious.

 

[Parra]

I've heard of blokes who have lost their jobs, but continued to get up and get dressed every morning and head off to work. Not telling their families that they did not have a job. I suppose looking for work and hoping it all sorts out.

 

[gUt]

 

[Hallatia]

I am interested in how he managed to get by, because people need money. Parents can pay the bills, but if he's getting dressed for work, he needs appropriate clothes to get dressed in. He needs to eat lunch as well as other incidentals...

If the parents believe he has a job, surely they won't pay for those things for him or give him pocket money or anything

 

[undertaker]

Bunniesman??

:lol:

We got dis!

Quite funny you mentioned Bunniesman, given his spurious claims of being a police officer, coming from a rich family and being associated with Mensa. However, the difference between Bunniesman is this other bloke is that 99% of the people on this forum can immediately see through Bunniesman's bullshit; this guy on the other hand managed to pull it off for 6 years WHILST LIVING WITH HIS FAMILY.

Anyways, if this guy's parents held so much trust in him or weren't involved with him much, then it would've been relatively easy to pull this off as they simply didn't care or keep an eye on anything. But, on the other hand, if they were involved with him and had a close relationship, they surely must've found it odd if he claimed he was going to university yet didn't have any uni books at home, as well as not filing any tax returns if he claimed he was working etc. Surely you would pick up on this basic things. It's amazing to think moreso of what the man did with all that time he claimed he was at work/university (besides go to the psychiatrist).