The Career Path of a Liar

Good Employee Good Manager Sales HR How often you lie AS YOU LIE MORE AND MORE OFTEN, THAT YOU ARE A GOOD EMPLOYEE. AND MORE AND MORE TRUE THAT YOUR EMPLOYEES DON'T KNOW WHAT FOLLOW ME

A man gives a humorous presentation onstage while a graph shows career trajectories labeled Good Employee, Good Manager, Sales, and HR against how often someone lies. The joke is that repeated lying makes someone a worse employee but supposedly a better manager, until confused employees force the liar into sales and eventually HR. The clip is used as a sarcastic reaction to workplace dishonesty, corporate career progression, or managers who keep changing their story.

As you lie more and more often it becomes less and less true that you are a good employee. Yeah. And more and more true that you are a good manager. If you lie too much at some point you're employees don't know what to believe and at that point you have to move into sales.

• @ithueti / 17539 2026-01-11