From Yahoo News – Gadgets seen as best way to tell white lies:
More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of being “economical with the truth” is to use technology such as cell phones, texts and e-mails, a survey on Thursday said.
I’ve never seen the phrase “economical with the truth.” What a pathetic turn of phrase. This survey was conducted in the UK, for what that is worth. No surprises here:
The workplace was a favorite location for fibbing with 67 percent of the 1,487 respondents admitting they had lied at work.The top lie was pretending to be ill (43 percent) followed by saying work had been completed when it hadn’t (23 percent). Worryingly for bosses 18 percent said they lied to hide a big mistake.
I’ve seen some big mistakes in the office and I have seen some even bigger lies about them. I say that because I have told lies at the office and been busted on almost all of them.
I once worked for a guy who told a lie to a huge, new customer in my presence. I didn’t say anything at the time, but he ended up losing the customer almost immediately. The service he promised to deliver to them was not what they expected and after they received it, they would have nothing to do with him again. If he had just been honest with them, I am convinced they would have grown into the largest customer for that company.