Harpy wanted to know how I would answer this question, since I'm a church-going guy and all that.

I worked as an investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for 25 year, doing background checks on applicants for sensitive jobs. Yes, people do falsify credentials and job experience and about everything that can be falsified (even gender - I nailed an Air Force colonel who took a Civil Service examination on behalf of his wife, and another man who took a test for his girlfriend). I always took a hard line on that sort of dishonesty. I figured that if people were paying for the work of somebody who had such-and-such credentials, then they sure as heck ought to have those credentials. Besides that, I saw lots of very capable people get turned down for jobs - and it seemed totally unfair for them to lose a job to somebody who got it dishonestly.

I wouldn't "rat" on a coworker for some sort of everyday weakness or mistake, or for minor infractions like stopping at the grocery store with a government car - but I sure as heck would turn them in for this sort of basic dishonesty.

-Joe Offer-