I hope this doesn't dishearten you Unilads, but fucking hell. Degree certificates - I've found toilet roll more useful in my life.
For the first time in ten years I have been asked to provide a photocopy of my degree cetificate - and ignoring the look on my face when I recieved it and realised I could have photoshopped one in less than 5 minutes - this would be an issue as it in in a different country.
So, I call Transcripts and discover that they are happy to email me a scan as long as I can provide name, DoB, years studied and degree title. Hmm...sounds secure, yes? So actually, in five minutes on facebook I could request any qualification that my many friends were awarded.
Five minutes after this, I recieve an email from my new employer, who has been alerted to the possible difficulty. It read in full:
>If it causes you hassle don't bother about it. It is only for in house HR.
So, not only could I have forged a degree, or blagged a real one all within five minutes, it turns out just saying that it may cause you a little effort to get a copy is fine.
Sorry, I am not complaining about the degree istelf, I loved it, learnt a lot and met come incredibly good people - indeed this job comes via a friend on an elective course.
It is just the shit about the certificate. Especially given how much they charge for copies.
However, should I ever need a Masters in something interesting I now know it is only a phone call away. It is a nice stop-gap until I actually get round to post-gradding in Scandinavia. Anyone with experience in a field but no qlaification should think about this one. It may require a legal change of name, but fuck it, that is hardly an issue.
Fuck it, I'm just going to become a fraudster. Everyone's always complaining about idiots who don't know what they're doing being inexplicably elevated above their intellect, so what's one more on the grand old funeral pyre of humanity?
What are you, the filthy, oppressed dregs, going to do about it?!
