Nice story, Russell! I had a similar experience where I once was looking for a job and was getting nowhere with the normal resume submittal process at one particular place so I did some Google sleuthing and found the name of the engineering manager and called him directly. I managed to get an interview immediately and a job offer a few days later. I ended up taking a different job from another offer, but it really did drive home to me the power of "going direct" when possible! Sean On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:00 PM, RussellMc wrote: > > In really desperate stone wall situations I find that Google often enough > knows what they will not tell you. > High level email addresses or patterns that allow you to deduce them or > even sometimes phone numbers can be available. > > On one occasion I wanted to take a civilian style 4WD mildly off road in > Australia. It ws in no way [tm] risky but violated all hire company's > conditions. > One company said "may be permissible by specific arrangement" but nobody > contacted knew how or cared to find out. > Gargoyle provided me with a phone number of a regional manager who was > affable and obliging and happily agreed to permit what I wanted at no ext= ra > cost. > He had one query. "Tell me, how did you get this phone number?" :-) > > > R > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .