James from Hays IT

[mailric]

same call here.

I asked 'james' if he knows two guys from hays I know quite well... surprise, he didnt know either of them.

[MrMark]

I think the real "James from Hays" has just lost his bonus - as soon as he calls any of us, we'll crack up laughing and hang up (at least I know I will). The chances of his recruiting someone for a role have now plummeted methinks.

[dmini]

Hays were offering a reward for positive ID of these guys in February.

[NadJ]

Many moons ago, I used to work for a desktop/server support company providing the odd bit of phone support. We used to share the office with a telephony solutions company. The guy sitting on my right was part of the sales team for the said company. He would call between 20-30 companies a day and claim to be someone or rather from one of their own competitors. The purpose of this was to gauge an initial reaction from the client and if the company told him that they already used provider X, he would call in a weeks time pretending to be from provider X to check if the client was pleased with "their" service!

If not, then that's how a new relationship using his real identity would develop.

Sales people faking their identity on the phone has been around a very long time.

I gather "James" wanted to hear that you were interviewing with some investment bank or something. ****.

[pzz76077]

Many moons ago, I used to work for a desktop/server support company providing the odd bit of phone support. We used to share the office with a telephony solutions company. The guy sitting on my right was part of the sales team for the said company. He would call between 20-30 companies a day and claim to be someone or rather from one of their own competitors. The purpose of this was to gauge an initial reaction from the client and if the company told him that they already used provider X, he would call in a weeks time pretending to be from provider X to check if the client was pleased with "their" service!

If not, then that's how a new relationship using his real identity would develop.

Sales people faking their identity on the phone has been around a very long time.

I gather "James" wanted to hear that you were interviewing with some investment bank or something. ****.

Yep, you guessed right, he will be calling whatever company you mentioned in the very next call.....

Which gives me an idea....next time he calls give him the number of your spare mobile as a dead cert 'in'. When he calls using his real identity, can you say 'gotcha' and collect the reward from Hayes.

PZZ