How Fact Checking Works
My first real job was when I graduated college. I went to GE Information Services. My resume was built on my undergraduate degree, which was a double major in Math & Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
I was at GE a little over five years. During that time, I went through a three year technical management training program and got a MS in Computer Science & Applications at night from Virginia Tech. Then I left GE and went to Michigan to pursue my MBA.
The MBA program at Michigan is as most MBA programs are a two year program. During the summer between the two year, I did an internship in the Global Investment Banking group at Bankers Trust (now part of Deutsche Bank) in New York literally across the street from the World Trade Center.
After I was in the internship for a week, I got a message from the resume fact checking department that there were several things on my resume they hadn’t been able to verify and they needed my help. WTF I thought, did I forget to finish a degree or something?
When I called them, no, they had verified every job, every degree, every major fact that had anything to do with my getting the job. They wanted verification of minor facts I had stated in bullets that had little nothing to do with my getting the job.
They told me they are handed resumes and told to verify every fact, period. The year was 1994. Anyone who has spent their career in management, management consulting or in New York like me knows what a pile of shit it is the story that someone made up a fact and that Miriam didn’t fact check a blurb. Companies like that take facts and fact checking very, very seriously.
The only plausible explanation is she didn’t fact check it because she thought location of birth was something someone would not lie about. She was wrong, wasn’t she? And that’s why her statement was so vague and the Publisher repeated it as is. Neither was willing to get caught in a lie supporting Obama’s lie that they could get nailed with. The so called explanation leaves them an out no matter what evidence turns up.
My first real job was when I graduated college. I went to GE Information Services. My resume was built on my undergraduate degree, which was a double major in Math & Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
I was at GE a little over five years. During that time, I went through a three year technical management training program and got a MS in Computer Science & Applications at night from Virginia Tech. Then I left GE and went to Michigan to pursue my MBA.
The MBA program at Michigan is as most MBA programs are a two year program. During the summer between the two year, I did an internship in the Global Investment Banking group at Bankers Trust (now part of Deutsche Bank) in New York literally across the street from the World Trade Center.
After I was in the internship for a week, I got a message from the resume fact checking department that there were several things on my resume they hadn’t been able to verify and they needed my help. WTF I thought, did I forget to finish a degree or something?
When I called them, no, they had verified every job, every degree, every major fact that had anything to do with my getting the job. They wanted verification of minor facts I had stated in bullets that had little nothing to do with my getting the job.
They told me they are handed resumes and told to verify every fact, period. The year was 1994. Anyone who has spent their career in management, management consulting or in New York like me knows what a pile of shit it is the story that someone made up a fact and that Miriam didn’t fact check a blurb. Companies like that take facts and fact checking very, very seriously.
The only plausible explanation is she didn’t fact check it because she thought location of birth was something someone would not lie about. She was wrong, wasn’t she? And that’s why her statement was so vague and the Publisher repeated it as is. Neither was willing to get caught in a lie supporting Obama’s lie that they could get nailed with. The so called explanation leaves them an out no matter what evidence turns up.
