The Work Number Making employement verification and acceptance for an apartment impossible Internet

This "service" is a rip off and makes obtaining an employment verification unnecessarily impossible.   I am in the process of changing jobs and relocating to a new city.  I've been struggling with this service for over a week now.  I'm trying to get an apartment near my new job but my landlord has been unable to obtain proof that I will have a job upon arrival because my new employer uses the work number and does not provide the needed information through any other means.  The Work Number puts you through an automated cobweb of prompts and redirects that can take hours to get you to a real person.  Then they charge a fee for the information.  Because my landlord is unwilling to pay the fee and because employees are "unauthorized" to obtain their own information, I am being faced with having to pay up to 6 months rent in advance in order to get into my new home.  This is absolutely ridiculous.  Reading other people's reports on this failure of a service I see that many other people are also missing out on opportunities (both in rental and employment).  It makes me wonder how many employment opportunities I too may have missed out on in the past as a result of this.  I am disgusted and disturbed that this is being allowed to continue and that so many companies are continuing to use this service.  I am also greatly disturbed by the fact that this service has obtained my own personal information and will not allow me (the person for whom this information belongs) to obtain it myself.  I urge anyone and everyone who has issues with the Work Number and the companies who pay for it's services to file a report against them.