What's the punishment for lying on a resume about your education. Saying that you have a BA when you don't.

The punishment is, potentially losing any job you may get with your falsified resume and, consequently, losing your eligibility for unemployment or any other job-related benefits that you would've otherwise had.

You will either not get the job or be fired from it.

But is it criminal, can you go to jail for it?

but is it criminal, can you goto jail for it?Generally, no ; you wouldn't go to jail for falsifying a resume. Now if it was used to obtain some kind of direct benefit under false pretenses, such as a scholarship, then there's an outside chance that you could be prosecuted.

It depends on the position - yes, you can be criminally charged if there is a potential for harm to society or it rises to a level of impersonation (for example, impersonating a nurse).

I'm a little concerned because you have posted, almost lectured, several times about your previous shoplifting arrests and your desire to go "straight" but also appear to have this issue.

Do you disclose your arrest record on applications?

I haven't been arrested or caught for doing anything illegal. But I did do illegal things in the past like shoplift and lie about my BA when I was still in college. I just feel really bad for my past bad behavior, I'm trying to rectify it somehow, because what I did was criminal and I haven't been punished for it and I hear people facing all these consequences for their mistakes and I got away with mine and I shouldn't have.
So I'm trying to decide if I should go back to my former emloyees and confess what I did to make things right.

So I"m trying to decide if I should go back to my former emloyees and confess what I did to make things right.Hello k:

You don't need to throw yourself on your sword to make things right. Nobody is keeping score except yourself... If you want to make it right, live a good and honorable life.

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I am concerned by your need to confess and repent, almost preach to people. Has something traumatic happened in your life?

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/crime/punishment-shoplifting-423067.html

I don't mean to be preachy to people, just don't want them to make stupid mistakes and suffer for it. I became a christian recently and have been relecting on all my past mistakes, some of wiich involves the law. It's been weighing heavy on my heart for a very long time and I wonder if that's God's way of telling me to confront what I've done and accept the consequences but then if I do, my life is pretty much over. So this dilemma is just overwhelming and consuming.

The legal boards are for legal advice. Have you tried posting this discussion, perhaps, on one of the AMHD religious or discussion boards?

My cousin is a born again Christian and is going through exactly what you are experiencing. For whatever reason (and she's a good person) she feels the need to repent, beat herself up, over past "transgressions."

I do sympathize with you - I just think you will find help and good advice on one of the other boards.

And good luck - I hope you find peace.

Lets say that you put down a fake degree on a application where the job requires a national security background search. Lying on that, can be criminal. Or if you put down you have a PhD to become a couselor and don't.

But in general you just get fired.

As for the preachy, while perhaps not the thread for it, this is actually common when a sinner converts, they seem to believe they have to "do" something to make up for things, that is actually not christian, you are forgiven and just go from here. If you wish to make up for past, then you do so, but not by making a show of it, but quietly.