Reply to: Thanks to the pimp who called clientco last night

[BrilloPad]

Now that IS desperate...

That was my first reaction.

Pretty grim and as already pointed out it's sailing pretty damn close to the wind in legal terms.

I'd be livid if that happened to me, I've seen plenty of Agency sharp practice over the years, but that's awful.

I was livid : but then thought "What can I do". After that I was calm and serene. Well relatively. Until the users started their barrage of stupid questions....

[TykeMerc]

Pretty grim and as already pointed out it's sailing pretty damn close to the wind in legal terms.

I'd be livid if that happened to me, I've seen plenty of Agency sharp practice over the years, but that's awful.

[cojak]

Thanks to the pimp who called clientco last night and pretended to be me. And proceeded to ask someone for names of colleagues. And then telling that person to "f**k off" and slamming the phone down when they got no info....

Now that IS desperate...

[robbie274]

Could this not be construed as fraud/deception? This person is stealing your identity for personal gain (new contracts etc). I would want to take this further, don't know if the police would bother with it though.

Thats true. He may do it again with a different ClientCo or use the same trick with a different contractor.

[the_duderama]

Could this not be construed as fraud/deception? This person is stealing your identity for personal gain (new contracts etc). I would want to take this further, don't know if the police would bother with it though.

[PM-Junkie]

terrorist ?

Depending on who the company is and what they do, this would certainly be an approach to take if the OP wanted to take it further. He could phone the police and say someone claiming to be him was trying to get inside information on the company, and where people sit in the organisation etc and that it may be a "survey". Depends how hacked off the OP is?

[norrahe]

The fishing calls are really stooping to a new level.

But what happened to you really takes the biscuit.

You should say to clientco you want to take the matter up officially, maybe they might give you the pimps name then??

[NickFitz]

Surely its someone from the agency which got you the gig?

Who else would know your at clientco?

Scourer was going to be benched a couple of weeks back but was then reprieved, so he will have recently circulated his CV.

[robbie274]

You mean like:

"Hi, this is BrilloPad. Can you remind me who I sit next to and who my project manager is?"

followed by.. "Oh F*** off".

*next day*

Morning all...

[d000hg]

They were asking for the names of co-workers and the desk organizational chart.

Who else but a pimp would ask?

You mean like:

"Hi, this is BrilloPad. Can you remind me who I sit next to and who my project manager is?"

[minsky1]

Thanks to the pimp who called clientco last night and pretended to be me. And proceeded to ask someone for names of colleagues. And then telling that person to "f**k off" and slamming the phone down when they got no info....

Surely its someone from the agency which got you the gig?

Who else would know your at clientco?

[snaw]

I asked Who and he said he couldnt disclose it

Isn't that illegal?

[Liability]

They were asking for the names of co-workers and the desk organizational chart.

Who else but a pimp would ask?

Desk Watcher? -

That is low - I had two calls within 30 mins yday afternoon all blatantly fishing - i mean they have no shame in this environment - but they doing what they have to do. The cheek of the guy though - he had a role in a large telco in central london - I asked Who and he said he couldnt disclose it - i told him I have a role which I started this week and so am not interested and then he asks with who and can I give them the name of the recruiter!.....suffice to say I didnt.

[expat]

Where do they get off on churning this bull out? They must sit there at weekends creating scripts and inventing projects that sound the real deal.

Isnt what they are doing illegal? Miss-selling etc?

No, just verminous.

[robbie274]

Not as low, but different way of doing it.

I had a guy from Hays IT call me a few weeks back, talk about how they were representing an service company who were putting together a team for a big datacenter project in a bank I used to work in (One of the biguns).

Ask if they could put me forward, also asked who I reported to etc down there when I was there - thought nothing of it, respectable recruiter etc, and seemed genuine.

I do keep in touch with people there still, and I gave my ex boss a nudge afterwards to find out the scoop and surprise surprise - no big projects, no outsourcing/service firm and no role. Elaborate fishing expedition. Strangely enough I never did hear back from Hays either ....

Where do they get off on churning this bull out? They must sit there at weekends creating scripts and inventing projects that sound the real deal.

Isnt what they are doing illegal? Miss-selling etc?