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<p>Again, why? You seem to be presuming that companies actually hire people carefully. Anybody who has been in business will surely attest that companies make plenty of careless hires all the time. </p>
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<p>Um, sure it matters, because it determines if you can *be fired<a href=“for%20cause”>/i</a>. You can’t (legally) be fired for lying if you never actually lied. Companies who want to fire you for lying have to actually be prepared to actually point to the actual lie that they claimed that you made.</p>
<p>Now, again, I have always agreed that companies can always lay you off - which is different from being fired - at any time. But that happens all the time. More importantly, it’s elementary to explain to a future employer. {Heck, I’ve known people who were laid off during the very first few days of the job through no fault of their own as the company decided to downsize or shut down a division.} But at least you had the job, if only for awhile. That’s surely better than never having a job at all, which is precisely the problem faced by millions of people right now. At least now you have something you can put on your resume.</p>
<p>I’ve never disputed that being laid off from a job might elicit uncomfortable questions from future employers. But what will really elicit uncomfortable questions from future employers are large gaps on your resume with no employment at all.</p>