Ombudsman account for AECOM wrote:
> Ours is a small protein facility. Maybe this is the oldest scam in the
>
> books on headhunting, but I relay it for a variety of reasons, not the
>
> least of which is to alert others to it:
>
> I answer the phone and he says (quickly) "Hi, I'm [I didn't catch it]
> from
> the Department of [Neuro-something] and I talked with someone else
> there
> about protein sequencing a couple weeks ago and I need to ask them
> another
> question."
> "Well, you could ask me." I say.
> "No, isn't there someone else in your facility?", he persists
> "Well, there's my technician Alice." (whose name isn't really Alice)
> "Yes! Alice! What's her number, I must have mixed your number with
> the
> lab's"
>
> Now, this seemed pretty irregular since Alice usually refers users
> directly
> to me whenever they contact her first, but I give him the lab number
> anyway, thinking he's someone from the University (which has four
> departments starting with "Neuro") that I'm just as happy not to
> continue
> speaking with at the moment, and when he does finally reach Alice (who
>
> anyway isn't in the lab just then) she'll send him back to me.
> Later, I alerted Alice to who might be calling. Next day, she tells
> me he
> called. "He didn't want sequencing, he wanted to offer me a job!"
> (Which
> she declined interest in.)
>
> Not supposing that there's anything illegal about this, and I'm more
> bemused than irritated, but had Alice decided to jump I'd be pretty
> enraged.