Title explains it well. I have been working with Conserve to rehabilitate my defaulted student loan. I was going to email the paperwork tonight. My HR-ish/office manager just informed me that the person I have been working with just called our office and: *Offered to give my office manager my social security number to identify who she was asking about *Told her she was calling with Conserve (identifying it as a dept collection agency)
Thankfully my HR person isn't a dummy, so she notified me immediately. Can they do any of this legally? They didn't know who our office manager was, if she would even have access to my SSN, nothing. It just happens that in our small company the phone rings to her extension if you don't enter one yourself. If she doesn't pick up, it gets routed to a random employee that would not have any access to sensitive information. I'm just blown away by this. Is this even legal??
Can I get them to stop calling my work? I will NEVER discuss anything with them at work because we have an open office environment. How they hell can they offer up my social to whoever answers without even knowing who the hell they were talking to?? What can I do??
Edit: we are small enough that we do not have a proper HR department. The person Conserve spoke with does handle office work and payroll, but there is no guarantee it would be her who answered the phone.
Submitted April 11, 2017 at 05:52PM by conserve_hell http://ift.tt/2nC2v0c
