https://www.nme.com/news/music/jonny-greenwood-pretended-play-keyboards-radiohead-3156953
“Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player — [whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross. “And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off … I must have done months of rehearsals with them with this keyboard, and they didn’t know that I’d already turned it off.”
“They made quite a racket, quite a noise. It was all guitars and distortion — and so I would pretend to play for weeks on end and Thom would say, ‘I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture because I can tell when you’re not playing,'” he said. “And I’m thinking, ‘No, you can’t, because I’m really not playing.’ And I’d go home in the evening and work out how to actually play chords and cautiously over the next few months, I would start turning this keyboard up. And that’s how I started in with Radiohead.”
lol damn i sure hope he wasn't just trolling, which is a real possibility too
Honestly surprised there has been no cooperative grift to create fake companies people can site experience to, it's not like monolithic HR beasts actually pay that close attention if a well done voice mail and actor are involved.
IIRC it only takes like $500 and15 minutes to set up a shell company out of a mailbox in Delaware. Then we could make people answer questions like "do you think this company should use the internet" and then whatever they answer we could log it as "IT management experience"
Hmmmmm interesting
We wouldn't be able to be personal references, but as far as being listed as employer references and saying "X person provided Y services between this time and that time" we could probably do, if we had a crafty lawyer write up a good enough EULA that made everyone into some sort of contractor so we didn't have to provide benefits or stuff.
This would need a lot of lawyering but I think it's doable.
I think that there could be a division between immediate references and resume padding, i.e. a way to create a couple references to fill in those BS must have 5 years experience in field but this is a newbie position through multiple different companies or contracting periods.
chegg for work experience
There are create a reference companies out there, but they charge a fee typically (it was $20/reference back in 2010 for the cheaper places), some would go as far as make up a company and all that for you. My aunt's wife swears by them, I personally go the do my own voice acting route and use a spare phone number I keep for such things and link it someone I worked with there, so its semi legit, just can't reach the recommender directly.
There's a sub on r*ddit for references, no clue how good it is /r/BeMyReference/
Oh damn that's pretty interesting, man gotta love the millennial solutions to bullshit job requirements.