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Have we become so lazy that we don’t even proofread our own resumes before we send them out?

Well, according to this story, the answer is YES…without a doubt.

But at least you’ll get a kick out of this story, because it didn’t happen to you!

Check out how a woman maliciously complied after someone she wasn’t too fond of asked her to update their resume.

Let’s take a look!

Arrogant ‘Actress’ Demands I Update Her Resume — For Free. I Maliciously Comply

“There was a lady I used to know who claimed she was an actress.

Let’s call her “Helen.”

In the time that I knew her, her story kept changing: she had all this ‘experience,’ yet she didn’t seem to know even the basics about the industry. However, if someone had a resource she coveted? She treated them like they were the light of her life — but only for the moment.

She sounds like a real gem!

She used people as stepping stones, then discarded them like trash the second they were no longer useful or when they finally caught on to her act. In short, Helen wasn’t building a good reputation, and she never saw karma coming.

It didn’t help at all that, on top of being a self-centered blowhard with almost no verifiable experience, her resume was more fake than my heterosexuality.

Her headshots were so out of date — and since she was so broke she couldn’t even afford to pay attention, she didn’t have the money to pay a photographer for new ones — she subbed overly edited camera phone selfies in their place.

Yikes!

I’m not kidding when I say the filters she used made her look like a like a Bratz doll.

Shortly before I cut contact, she asked me to demanded I “beautify” her resume and make it appear more professional. Translation: exaggerate and lie to make her false claims look believable.

So I maliciously complied.

It was a test to see if she’d actually review it before sending it out. Deep down, I just knew she wouldn’t. Under Special Skills I added: Master of the Dunning-Kruger effect, expert at gaslighting, and embodies a supercilious manner.

I e-mailed it back. True to form, Helen never said thank you.

This lady is too much!

A few weeks later I saw Helen periodically posting typo-filled, grammatically incorrect “poor me” wall of text rants fishing for sympathy statuses about the struggles of the working actress — with interspersed out-of-context Bible verses thrown in for good measure.

A mutual friend (who had also been screwed over by Helen) later told me her shiny new resume wasn’t getting any bites. I can only assume she was cold e-mailing people in her typical trademark style — little to no punctuation, poor grammar, shorthand, misspellings, and subject lines in all caps or no subject lines at all.

Eventually word got back that Helen was furious her resume wasn’t being taken seriously. She must have finally read it and realized she’d been punked.

Arrogant and rotten to the core, Helen’s massive ego wouldn’t allow her to admit she’d been played — such an admission would have shone a spotlight on her unprofessionalism and laziness. It also would have led to questions. Helen didn’t like questions because she never had any satisfactory or logical answers.

Good riddance to her!

It’s been well over 12 years since I cut contact. The final straw was her complete lack of empathy when my estranged father passed away from lung cancer. She even tried to make the conversation about her own problems.

When I called her out, the hypocrisy was nuclear. I mean, how dare I challenge her main character syndrome?

These days, I recently heard through the grapevine (it’s a small industry), Helen has only managed a couple of walk-on roles in movies that no one has ever seen.

Thanks to her unprofessional reputation that follows her like a shadow — constant lying, plagiarism, trash talking the competition — she’s burned a lot of bridges, rightfully earning the reputation of a lying grifter with zero skills and even less talent.”

Now let’s see what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

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And this individual spoke up.

Was that funny, or what?

I sure thought it was!

Well, she was asking for it!

This was pretty satisfying malicious compliance!