“Lidiya Mikhailovna? I’m delighted to meet you in person!” My presumed boss says enthusiastically.
“Er…” I freeze. Employers can’t greet applicants for a position like that—you’re confusing me with someone.
“I’m here about the vacancy,” I hold up a printout from the website like a shield.
“No, I couldn’t have confused you with anyone. Although you did quite a bit of work on your appearance in the photograph.”
He waves my application form, and I go cold when I look closer. I mixed things up and inserted the details from a dating site into my résumé on the job-search resource.
After my boyfriend cheated, I registered on a dating site, but I embellished the truth a little. If guys think they can wipe their feet on the real me, let them break their teeth on a real beauty. But doing several things at once, I swapped the information for my résumé and the dating site…