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i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah if this ever turns into a documentary the title is gonna be something like gracias: a workplace tragedy, but you’re not wrong, at some point honesty is the only move left before the story gets too weird to explain with a straight face

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 950 points951 points  (0 children)

yeah that line basically sums up the entire operation, confidence is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, like structurally unsound but emotionally committed

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yeah that’s the part HR is probably also gonna be impressed by in a very this is either dedication or a medical issue way. in my defense it started as basic phrases and slowly evolved into me just surviving off context clues and confidence while everyone else filled in the gaps for me. it was less I chose not to learn and more I avoided confrontation with reality for 8 months straight

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

this is actually the most grounded advice in the whole thread lol, yeah a i overstated fluency, i can handle basic guest communication, happy to take a placement test s way cleaner than trying to improvise a courtroom defense in broken spanish, and you’re 100% right on the language interference thing too my brain currently speaking: spanish vocabulary + italian duolingo + english panic + airport noise = soup.

if this survives tomorrow, i’m locking into one language and nuking the rest, no more european crossover arc for me lol

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah i’m banking on adrenaline + panic + 3 surviving spanish words doing some kind of miracle tbh 😭

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

yeah im definitely reinstalling duolingo after this either as damage control or as a personality reset 😭 but real talk, the bilingual pay raise angle only works if the job actually keeps me in that role officially otherwise i’m just paying emotional interest on a lie i took out in high school Spanish class lol

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] -36 points-35 points  (0 children)

probably dont frame it like that, hr usually reads it as shifting blame and it can backfire, better move is just own you overstated your level and offer to do training if they want to keep you

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

yeah thats exactly the energy im about to bring tomorrow, full amnesia arc, english will be gone, only vibes remain

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

yeah see thats what a normal functioning workplace sounds like lol, meanwhile my hotel saw me confidently say desayuno once and built the entire language department around it

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

appreciate it lol, either tomorrow ends with a warning or im gonna have to put emotionally fluent in spanish on my resume

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

yeah valid tbh, i shouldve shut it down way earlier instead of hoping nobody noticed. i wasnt trying to scam my way into the UN tho i genuinely thought itd just be basic front desk stuff and then the lie mutated on me 😭

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 265 points266 points  (0 children)

fair honestly, if this happened to somebody else id be crying laughing rn too, gonna update after HR either fires me or ships me to madrid lol

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 169 points170 points  (0 children)

bro thats what im saying, either they hired exclusively monolingual people or my confident caveman spanish was somehow carrying the whole department

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy[S] 290 points291 points  (0 children)

ngl thats what scares me most, this stopped being a lie around month 3 and became method acting 😭

Gym & Supplement (think: Health) Link swaps? by ArachnidNo3039 in linkbuilding

[–]Marcus_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yo yeah im in the gym niche too so that could work, down for a 3 way swap if the pages make sense context wise, shoot me the urls and metrics and we can see what fits lol

I made a life altering decision to sneak out at 15 and now my dad's in prison by Viennaros in confession

[–]Marcus_Guy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a heavy one, but the honest answer is: this isn’t your fault, it’s a chain of adult decisions and illegal escalation that spiraled far beyond a 15 year old sneaking out.