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[Markie]

Cracking text meassage just received by one of my staff...a girly by the way.

It goes along the lines of " I remembered i had your telephone number, and wondered if you could ask your flatmate if she fancied going for a drink with me sometime?"

Now theres nothing wrong there....is there.... :-/ someone that has the girls telephone number.....and fancies her flatmate.

Problem is the sender of the message is the ASDA delivery driver that dropped of the groceries and only had the mobile number as ASDA put them in the order sheet in case the buyer is out...

She thinks its funnny.....others well they think its a bit underhand...

Thoughts?

[HolyCount]

Probably against ASDA rules for a start ---- got to give the bloke points for initiative though!

[Gaffers]

you could agrue a breach of the Data Protection Act, using the phone number for something other than authorised....

[mantahatch]

Be fair, if the poor bloke fancies the girl good luck to him and her.
He could, knowing where she lived have gone back and knocked on the door out of work hours but that could be seen in a bad light.

All it is a quick text message. If she is not interested she can ignore it, and as long as he forgets it as well, there is no harm done.

Mike

[Markie]

Be fair, if the poor bloke fancies the girl good luck to him and her.
He could, knowing where she lived have gone back and knocked on the door out of work hours but that could be seen in a bad light.

All it is a quick text message. If she is not interested she can ignore it, and as long as he forgets it as well, there is no harm done.

Mike

Agreed but it got comical laughter, stunned silence and shouts of data protection breach from different people.....

Shows how PC the world has gone  

[Markie]

i guess the time to get worried is when the texts start to say " i know what de- odorant you wear"  

[mantahatch]

Be fair, if the poor bloke fancies the girl good luck to him and her.
He could, knowing where she lived have gone back and knocked on the door out of work hours but that could be seen in a bad light.

All it is a quick text message. If she is not interested she can ignore it, and as long as he forgets it as well, there is no harm done.

Mike

Agreed but it got comical laughter, stunned silence and shouts of data protection breach from different people.....

Shows how PC the world has gone  

Agreed  

[JamesV6CDX]

Personally speaking, I do think it's an inappropriate use of his employers' customer's personal details, but that's just me...

If I was the guys manager, and I received a complaint from the lady who recieved the Text, I would feel duty bound to warn him about misuse of customer sensitive data.

Sorry if that makes me sound an old fart - you can never blame a guy for trying, but I don't think that's the way to go about it.

[HolyCount]

If t'were me I might have left a note with the shopping -- or, more probably, chickened out !!!

[Gaffers]

Ask any of my soldiers how anti PC I am, they all know where I stand on the issue.  

Using compnay data for ones personal goals is wrong, ethically and I think legally.    :-/

I agree he should have had the balls to knock on the door witha bouquet and invite her to dinner  

[JamesV6CDX]

I think the only way you'd stand a change is by having some front and sparking up conversation.....