Liars

Right from my earliest experiences of the work place I witnessed people in authority who would have no qualms about lying. They would lie for all manner of reasons but mainly to try to cover up their involvement in something. For example, I committed a minor misdemeanor at work once that was written up by the idiot training officer. He told me it was only written up for his own reference and would not be used anywhere else. I discovered several years later that a report of this had indeed found its way into my personnel file. I also saw once an incident where, during a training session, on the new appraisal system (Focus on your failures, or something like that), the head of human resources insisted that anything anyone said in the meeting would remain totally annonymous. Shortly after the meeting I heard the head of human resources speaking to another manager in the corridor, referring to a particularly outspoken individual in the meeting. The two were discussing exactly what was said. So much for being annonymous. I think we've probably all been in situation where someone says something to you like, "Don't breathe a word about this to anyone," etc. It is part of corporate life. Consequently, there are those who seem to lie habitually in the workplace. Those that are so used to doing it they do it probably out of habit and actually, probably believe they are doing no wrong in doing so.

In my own situation there have been so many people who have lied about what has happened to me that there are basically two types of people. They are all liars but can be sub-divided. There are those, like the aforementioned head of human resources that lie in every area of their lives (probably lying to their spouses about their extra-marital affairs) and they can do it easily without betraying any emotions. Then there are those who are normally honourable people. They would not normally lie and they are uncomfortable about lying. This was apparent to me by a young girl who worked in Human Resources in a company I worked for. She was given the task of conducting an exit interview with me when I resigned. She was there trying to present the official stance that I had resigned for no reason, (not the truth, that I had been mobbed by the Senior Management and a few other dick heads who were in on it.) Throughout the interview she fiddled with her fingers nervously and could not look at me. She squirmed all the way through it. Boy would I love to get her on a lie detector or even cross examined by a good brief. There have been others that are so uncomfortable about the whole thing. They know it is not right but are forced to lie. I can only speculate why they persist in lying even though it is against all their principles. No doubt they have been threatened in some way and maybe I was correct about my suspicions in my last post. I have no way of knowing.

All together though it stinks. Those involved must know it stinks. The ends can never justify the means. After all those in the know now must know the world does not work the way we are led to believe it does. They must now know that they cannot ever believe the official versions for happenings like the death of David Kelly or other such things. It must be quite depressing for them for the rest of their lives.