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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work with someone who lies a lot, and it really freaks me out.

For example, last month I was eating lunch in our staffroom with this person and one other person.  There was no one else in the room.  The liar listened avidly as the other person told a story about a strange thing that had happened to him a few years ago (it was a really good story).  Shorty after that, I heard the liar telling that same story to someone else, but she told it as if it had happened to her.  It was so strange.

A few other colleagues have caught on, and we swap stories that Liar tells us, laughing at the inconsistencies.  For example, she told one person an elaborate tale of something her cat did that week (cute story about the cat waking her up), but told someone else the same week that she is a dog person (agreeing with the person she was talking to at the time) and would never get a cat.

She has told multiple people it was her birthday, but on different days (different months!).

You know how you might have had something crazy happen to you once, something that sounds unbelievable, but it really happened?  She has SO MANY of these wild tales.  While some people have caught on to the fact that she is a liar, there are also people at work who don't seem to get it, and sit enthralled as Liar spins her wild tales.

And she lies about details having to do with our job, which is most disturbing.  I work in the same department and see this first-hand, and it is really irritating when she says she did something but didn't, or says the paperwork is complete but it is not, and then she doubles down on her tales.

Our supervisor recently told me that a few months ago, Liar had told her something about me that Liar felt supervisor should "speak to" me about.  The supervisor said that she didn't say anything to me because "I never saw any evidence of what she was saying", and the gist of the conversation was that supervisor hinted she knows Liar is...a liar.  [/quote]

This is an actual psychiatric disorder akin to OCD, and it's extremely difficult to control, especially if the person doesn't realize they need OCD-specific therapy. [/quote]

Do you think she could be dangerous somehow?

I honestly wonder about this sometimes, especially considering what I wrote in my pp about something Liar told our supervisor about me.  [/quote]

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