Can you share a time you lied at work and got caught?

Can you share a time you lied at work and got caught?
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I declined a promotion and did so on the grounds that I was lacking a certain training element which, in fact, I had. I didn’t want the promotion because I knew the person who would get it in my place and I knew that they could not handle the work and would probably fail. This person had been my nemesis since we began our careers and I wanted to see him squirm and fail. Ok. So I suck. Anyway, things happened just as I suspected. After this guy got terminated they again asked me if I would take the promotion and I said again that I lacked a component required in the job description. M boss said that that component had been waived and that he wanted me to take the job. I accepted. After I accepted, my boss (at this point we were now equal pay grade) told me that he knew I had the training and that he wanted to see the other sunofabitch fail as much as I did. he slapped me on the back and we went and had a drink.
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