The other side of the coin.
A friend was telling me that he recently attended a roadshow for a foreign carrier that is looking for captains.
I was told that there was a QF FO trying to get his ICUS time accepted as PIC, claiming that he had a Command Rating , 5000 ICUS hours (so he flew with a Check and /or Training pilot for 5000 hours?) and 11,000 hours total ( I thought that only 50 % of FO time went towards total time).
When he was told that he actually had to be a captain with the airline to be acceptable as a captain, he apparently replied; "so, all I have to do is be a captain somewhere on any aircraft for a week and I will be acceptable."
Some people will twist the facts ( or in some cases change their co pilot time to ICUS) to "leap frog" into positions they want.