In a provider's ad a work number is requested, but with the addition "no direct lines". I assume that means that the provider doesn't want your work number; instead I assume that she wants a general number of the company where she can ask if the person who contacted her does work at that company. Is this the correct meaning?
If so, here's the problem. I work for a BIG company that doesn't have an operator that will connect an outsider to an employee and won't verify employment to a phone caller without explicit forms being filled out specifying who can get this information and why. Given these restrictions is there some other way other people have found to meet the provider's request for a non-direct work number?
Well, actually I thought about giving the general number for the company so that the provider could ask for me. The problem is that the company won't connect the caller to me or even state that I'm an employee for the company. I'm not in a position that needs contact with the public, such as marketing or public relations and it's the company's policy to not reveal employee data, to the extent of not even passing through phone calls. So, you can see the problem.
Although I welcome providers verifying that I work for the company that I told them that I work for and do not mind them dialing my extension once the have come through the company's general exchange line, I draw the line with ones who want to "employment" verify me. Frankie's point was that if the provider comes through a general exchange line for a company, then reach your extension from there, she would have: 1. Verified the company name that you gave her is correct. 2. Verified that she could reach you via the extension that you gave her.
There is no need for her to ask for employment verification at that point, she essentially has it.
General exchange lines are lines typically end in a number followed by three zeros (for example, 3000 in the phone number 1-214-389-3000). Dialing the company's main exchange will cause a greeting to be given which will include the company's name, and sometimes the location of the company or company's branch office. Once a provider has reached the main switchboard, whether manned by a person or electronic, she can reach your extension if she has it simply by following instructions.
Asking for employment verification when one has a main exchange phone number and an extension rates up there with a provider calling to say that she is a loan officer. How many loans can the typical person apply for in a year? Unless one has a need for rapid and continuous capital infusions during a year,it is highly unlikely that a person will apply for more than one loan per year, if any.
employment. If you dial into a company's main exchange (which will have a greeting with the company's name and probaly location), then reach his extension through the exchange then you should have enough information on his employment. But having said the above, better safe than sorry. If you have methods that have worked well for you, then continue using them as you now do.
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