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I once worked for a global fashion licensee where I came in to establish a visual communications department. In order to do that I had to recruit, but I also had to adopt this utter numbnut who had been there for a couple of years doing basic graphics and artworking. He was lazy and dishonest and had a sarky supercilious attitude that made you want to punch him. It took a long time, but eventully I was able to get the company to see what a waste of resources he was and give him his orders. This was all straight up, I'm not an unfair or malicious person - he really was a waste of space. You could give him a simple 8 page booklet to lay out, just text in black, and 6 months later he'd still be telling you why he can't complete it becuase blah blah blah.
Anyway, to be fair to him we gave him a month on full salary to use his desk and computer to get a portfolio sorted out and look for work.
One day one of my team asked to have a look at his portfolio. There were three bits of work that he knew were not by this guy at all. We all had a look. Betwen us we identified about ten people's work and hardly anything could be attributed to this guy at all.
Anyway, the company got sold and I moved on and I never heard from him again. I just came across his website and downloaded his pdf portfolio... its full of work for the world's greatest fashion brands, art directed by well known people, shot by well known people, done at well known agencies... and all in his portfolio. His involvement in 99% of this work must be at best wildly fictional.
Why are these cunts able to get away with this kind of thing?