What's age got to do with it?

Apparently ALOT!  I got a call from a well known temporary agency a couple of weeks ago about a job opening that they had which I was well qualified for.   Since I hadn't signed up with them (I don't know how I missed them) I went through all of their pre-screening, testing and passed (I thought) with flying colors.  So I waited for them to call about going out on the position.  And I waited, and waited, and waited.  Nothing, zip, zilch, NADA!  So I phoned the temp agency 2 days after I finished the testing and got the dreaded "she's in a meeting let me put you into VOICEMAIL".  Oh, no.... so I left a message and waited for her to phone me back, and waited, and waited, and waited, and well, you have the picture.  Two days after no phone call back I called again and was told the same thing.  I then asked to speak to her supervisor and got the "she's in a meeting"...spiel.  I DIDN'T leave a message this time and thought about the process that I had gone through to get to this point.  One thing that stood out to me is that in one part of the signup process a question was asked if I was over 40.  This question was asked on the ADP Payroll site that they used for their payroll.   I really didn't think too much about it at the time until all of this happened.  As you can well imagine I was not happy and I spoke to the CA EDD about it.  They told me that this question was illegal and to phone Consumer Affairs.  I got a phone number for them but as of yesterday have still not spoken to anyone about this because I can't get through (the number is always busy) .  What happened to the days where, if you were qualified for the job, you got the job??  They are gone, long gone....