A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

The joke hinges on a collision between two genres of writing: the resume (a document meant to present one’s professional credibility) and the hold-up note (a blunt instrument of coercion). By having the robber write the demand on the back of his resume—and then “lie” about prior robberies—O’Brien satirizes the reflex to polish one’s image even in absurd or morally indefensible contexts. The punchline also plays on the corporate language of self-presentation: the robber treats criminal history like job experience to be strategically edited. More broadly, it mocks the idea that dishonesty is so normalized in credentialing and careerism that it persists even when it makes no practical sense.