From a news item about the increasing incidence of job candidates losing offers after their prospective employers run background checks on the Internet: > “In a third case, a senior sales executive seeking a move also ended up getting the sack after boasting to the Friends Reunited site, set up to keep old school pals in touch, that he lied at interview and his CV was “a masterpiece of fiction.”

Geez, you’d think he’d be a shoe-in for sales with those tactics. Maybe they considered him over-qualified.