Fluff your resume and get arrested
EAGLE PASS — Weeks of investigation and a resume full of lies caught up with this border town’s interim city manager Tuesday as council members voted unanimously to take steps to fire him amid applause and whistles from a standing-room-only crowd.
“Once the investigation was completed, it was an easy decision,” said Mayor Chad Foster, who made the motion to set Glen Starnes’ pre-termination hearing for next Tuesday.
Less than 45 minutes after the council ended its closed-door session to debate Starnes’ termination, police arrested him, charging him with fraudulently getting a government job, Maverick County Sheriff Tomas S. Herrera said. He was released on $5,000 bail.
If convicted the misdemeanor charge could net him up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.
Quite a change a week makes. Last week the council members were behind him even after the lies were revealed. I must say I didn’t think the lies through all the way to arrest but it makes sense. I can’t imagine anyone who pads their resume thinks it would end this way but Glen Starnes experience should be a precautionary tale. Break out that resume and make sure everything on it is true.
Just for the record. Saying you hold a doctorate from a school that doesn’t exist and that you worked in a city that has never heard of you is a bit more than “fluffing.” It still bothers me that Glen Starnes characterizes it like that. A lie is a lie and no matter how big or small it is you can’t blow it off by calling it fluffing. Of course his lies were much bigger than I initially thought and I really can’t imagine that he didn’t think it would catch up to him sooner or later.
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