How is one to handle that?
It was over the college degree question, they said they knew I had a college degree.
Made me want to say hell I should have balked and admitted yes I do instead of insisting on the truth multiple times.
Um… did you initially say you didn’t have a college degree? And you do? And what truth were you insisting on?
I don’t, and claimed I don’t AKA the truth. They said they knew this was an obvious lie multiple times.
I’m just guessing here, but I don’t think it’s gonna be a great place to work anyway.
QFT. Lock the thread. We’re done here.
I’d say [Seinfeld] “Take the Degree.”
What the hell were you applying for, village idiot?
I laughed. And then I pondered whether or not that would be a fun job.
If you don’t have a college degree and a potential employer is insisting that you do (which is totally bizarre), I don’t see why you’d really wanna argue that point.
Are they trying to say they think you’re overqualified?
I’ve had a prospective employer in a job interview claim that I was lying about my previous salary. I wasn’t, but what really took the cake is that my ex-boss at my previous job now worked at the place I was interviewing, and had recommended me. It would have been incredibly stupid for me to lie about salary, because all they had to do was walk down the hall and ask ex-boss if I was lying.
Needless to say, I didn’t take the position.
Tell them you have a PhD from the school of Rock and Roll. Wear a ducktail. Carry your axe. Demand a raise.
The key question is, how long did you ponder, assuming, of course, that you’ve finished.
Only briefly. I decided court jester would be much more fulfilling.
Overqualified.
Jester hours can be tough, idiots usually only work during the morning and evening rush hours. Jesters do get to hang out after the feast and eat leftovers though.
And really, the jester is just the idiot with a nicer set of clothes.
This wasn’t some kind of situation where they really wanted to hire you, but HR/somebody insisted that a degree was necessary for the position? A kind of "Gee, I’m sure I misunderstood. You do have a degree, don’t you <wink, wink>? " But I’d expect some explanation in that case.
Other than that, this seems really, really, strange. It didn’t feel like some bizarre test to see if you knuckle under, did it?
Can you give us more context?
Very odd.
For me, the first time an interviewer implied or stated I was lying would be the last interview I gave to that company.
There’s a curious HR manager out here (that would be…err…me) who wants to know if this unusual recruiting technique was successful. I’m always looking for a creative edge in recruiting. 
I had a situation come up in an interview probably about a decade ago where I wasn’t really called a liar, but the interviewer simply didn’t believe my answer. It was just out of law school and I was applying for a fellowship in DC. The topic of a research paper that I had recently published came up and I started discussing it with the interviewer.
I mentioned some point of law, I don’t even remember what it was so long ago, and she said “I don’t believe that’s correct.” I said no, this is how it’s interpreted, and we went back and forth a couple of times before it was basically dropped as an “agree to disagree” and we moved on. I didn’t get the fellowship.
And since that day I’ve always wondered exactly what happened. Was I really wrong and she was right? Was I right and she interpreted it as wrong because I wasn’t explaining myself or the legal situation properly? Or did she know I was right all along and just wanted to poke at me and see how I reacted? Maybe I should have defended myself more vigorously. Maybe I should have written her afterwards with evidence, backing up my supposition.
Who knows? It’s ten years in the past. But still, I wonder…