Creepy Recording! Is someone bugging the Hillary Search Consultants?

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I got a call from the "Hillary Search Consultants" saying they were conducting a survey to determine media sources and something really strange got picked up on the recording.

First, some background. My recorder had already gone off when I picked up the phone. I tried to talk through it and listen to the responses of the caller as the recorder drone on, I just heard enough to know it was a poller.

Now, this has happened to me before where I got a call from a survey company which turned out to have an almost exclusive Republican political client list, so I'm very careful to make sure I hear the name of the polling company so I can input it in the computer real quick before I start answering questions. In this particular case, I knew I would not have time to answer questions, so I held on, waiting for the recording to end, just to find the name of the organization. As soon as the babble part of the recording ended, any reasonable person would have known that we were being recorded and since I knew I wasn't going to answer questions, I didn't think it was a big deal. I asked and the person replied he was from the Hillary Search Consultants and yadda, yadda, and once I told him I didn't have time to answer questions, he politely, but very swiftly hung up. So did I. Swiftly.

Then this morning, I went back to the recording to get the name of the organization to do a search on the internet and I noticed that the recording didn't stop after we both hung up. I heard intermittent clicking noises, then I heard an audible sigh. Like a man's sigh after a long day's work. Then the recording stopped.

Is it possible that someone has bugged the Hillary lines? Or is it possible that this is just the usual quality control recordings?

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1. Hey! I just did a search on the internet, is there even a "Hillary Search Consultants?"

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2. it's probably just the quality control recording

I just recently quit a job as a telemarketer (I didn't willingly do the job, it was misrepresented to me.) I'll try to explain how our program worked. The records come to the agents desk automatically. The agent works on the call and ends it. The agents cannot "disconnect" the call from the software, they have to hit "release" on the hard phone. If they want to disconnect the call from the computer they have to "disposition" the record (which is basically record the outcome of the call from a list of preset responses) and then a new record automatically loads. The agent can hit release on the hard phone, sit on the record and kill some time before going onto the next record, but that will log him or her out of the phone which makes his stats look bad. The poor guy was probably sighing because he hates his job and didn't want the next record to load, but hit the button for it anyway at which point the recording ended. Telemarketing sucks. I feel sorry for that poor bastard.

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3. Under normal circumstances, I'd agree with you but,

The number on the caller ID doesn't come up as anything. Not even a private listing: 609-279-0220. And, second, aren't they suppose to tell you they're going to record before they do it? And, third, I don't think the "Hillary search consultants" are even affiliated with Hillary.