Sooo having been unemployed for a while and I am trying to find a job...I applied at a bunch of places the other day and then today i get home and am greeted with the most annoying message of my life. All I hear is the last 5 digets of a phone number and "We look forward to speaking with you and thanks for your time"....GREAT! A very possible job offer and the idiot only left half a message. He must have started before the beep! ARGHH!!! IT SAID WAIT FOR THE BEEP! THE BEEEEP....So yeah..now I have no way of knowing which place it was...what am I going to do? My only hope was to match the last digits of the number to a place that I applied at...no luck. I even tried a reverse number lookup using wildcards for the other numbers...not one match however. Goddamit this angers me...

So yeah...post...similar...expiriences...or something.

Do you have telemarketers wherever you are? I get messages that end like that all the time after they tried to sell me credit, cable, mortgage help, etc.

Hmmm now that you mentioned it, I did initially notice that the voice sounded pretty automated, but it's hardly any talking so I couldn't be sure. For some reason I also forgot I had caller id, and looking through their I see a number from Quebec and no other unrecognized numbers. Sounds like our mystery caller to me. damn telemarketers messing with my mind!!

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How many places did you apply? Just call each of them up and explain your situation. It seems to me it would be worth it.

Some places might even like that you can them. Shows that you really want the job.

Yeah I've heard that too, Avenger.. from a HR person themselves.

Actually I completely unravelled the mystery... While listening to the message I noticed it the words at the end sounded exactly like a telemarketing message I remembered hearing from months before. I moved a month ago and since our old number was on that telemarketing dialing list, I figure the machine called my old number, which says a message like "out of service..call forwarding etc" and then forwards to my new number, by which point the machine would already have said most of its message, leaving only the very end to be recorded on my machine.

It's satisfying to actually completely figure out something like thsi for once.