Surely technology would never hurt one of its own kind…

Well  – it did…

A couple of weeks ago I applied for a job at the same place a friend of mine works. Didn’t hear anything – no big deal.

Then today I’m involved in an email conversation with the friend – we’re trying to sort out a lunch date for later in the week.

My phone rings “XXX work” says the phone. I think “Good call XXX we’ll sort this out faster by phone than email. So I pick up the phone and sing merrily “Ye-es?”

A *very* confused voice says “Umm – can I speak to Lindsay please?”

That’s right – it was a total stranger calling to invite me to an interview.

I guess it could have been worse.  But I’m seriously considering deleting the friend’s work number so it can’t happen again