How to report a cowboy

[Old Greg]

How would you go about reporting a cowboy?

With great care to make sure I didn't get sued.

[SueEllen]

I'm just interested in how you'd deal with a contractor you worked with who you had huge suspicions was there on the basis of a false cv. It's obvious when it happens.

You don't.

The job of a CV is to highlight a person positively. Some people interpret that to mean that they shouldn't tell the full truth.

Either way lots of people can do their job well enough regardless of the rubbish they put or didn't put on their CV.

Leave him be and make sure you don't do his work for him.

The client will remove him soon enough if he can't do the work, and learn that their interview process was wrong.

[contractor79]

You don't.

The job of a CV is to highlight a person positively. Some people interpret that to mean that they shouldn't tell the full truth.

Either way lots of people can do their job well enough regardless of the rubbish they put or didn't put on their CV.

Leave him be and make sure you don't do his work for him.

The client will remove him soon enough if he can't do the work, and learn that their interview process was wrong.

you seem very defensive of cowboys... maybe too blind to see they are bad for contracotrs in that they take our opportunities and defame us professionally, or maybe you're a cowgirl yourself? I hope not.

and no I am not doing work for this cowboy, because I'm not stupid, and that's what the cowboy is trying to do, the cowboy has already tried to take credit for my findings but I'm always many steps ahead of the game and had informed my supervisors prior to his claims of my findings

yes the cowboys get found out, but by then they can claim to have had 'experience' somewhere they should never have been at in the first place, and then move onto their next victim

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you seem very defensive of cowboys... maybe too blind to see they are bad for contracotrs in that they take our opportunities and defame us professionally, or maybe you're a cowgirl yourself? I hope not.

and no I am not doing work for this cowboy, because I'm not stupid, and that's what the cowboy is trying to do, the cowboy has already tried to take credit for my findings but I'm always many steps ahead of the game and had informed my supervisors prior to his claims of my findings

yes the cowboys get found out, but by then they can claim to have had 'experience' somewhere they should never have been at in the first place, and then move onto their next victim

There is a phrase I seem to use too often on this site:-

Tulip happens. You can either ignore it or worry about it and have an early heart attack.

[TestMangler]

Has the cowboy also stolen your puncuation ?

[contractor79]

You don't.

The job of a CV is to highlight a person positively. Some people interpret that to mean that they shouldn't tell the full truth.

That's acting fraudulently. You seem to defend such behaviour.

[DodgyAgent]

contractor

Tsk! they are all the same

[contractor79]

Has the cowboy also stolen your puncuation ?

No the cowboy has done nothing wrong personally to me except on the odd occasion try and take credit for my moments of brilliance, unknowingly to the cowboy I had already revealed my exceptional work to my supervisors so his subsequent claims and pretences of having found things out have been met quietly with the contempt which they deserve.

[SueEllen]

No the cowboy has done nothing wrong personally to me except on the odd occasion try and take credit for my moments of brilliance, unknowingly to the cowboy I had already revealed my exceptional work to my supervisors so his subsequent claims and pretences of having found things out have been met quietly with the contempt which they deserve.

Then as long as you make the client know whose doing the work then don't worry.

If he's good enough then they will keep him. If he annoys them with his bulltulip they won't.

One reason why lots of people lie is because lots of companies are too rigid on their specifications. I have no need to lie and in fact the last time someone checked out my CV, qualifications and references they found I don't.

[TestMangler]

No the cowboy has done nothing wrong personally to me except on the odd occasion try and take credit for my moments of brilliance, unknowingly to the cowboy I had already revealed my exceptional work to my supervisors so his subsequent claims and pretences of having found things out have been met quietly with the contempt which they deserve.

JHC on a bike. You must be an absolute gas to work with..............