To ask if giving a false phone number is a thing?

[DuckyMcDuck]

Went to a cafe with a friend, we sat outside but she was asked for her phone number. Once we sat down, she admitted that she always gives a false number and so does everyone she knows.

Is this really a common thing? I haven't been in places very much but have always given my number when asked.

@JinglingHellsBells I would isolate it I was contacted by t&t, but I grumble about it a bit. Tropical English woman who loves to complain haha.
@EasterIssland oh how strange. I'm surprised they haven't done more with that one.

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Typical * bloody hell, I may learn to spell on of these days 🤦🏻‍♀️

[quote peboh]@JinglingHellsBells I would isolate it I was contacted by t&t, but I grumble about it a bit. Tropical English woman who loves to complain haha.
@EasterIssland oh how strange. I'm surprised they haven't done more with that one. [/quote]
I know I think it's bad handling of everything (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54213880)

I went to Scotland back in august and you had to check in and out in many places so they knew what time had you been there, I guess if you hadn't been at a similar Time as a positive you'd not b contacted

@Potterpotterpotter you might not have any vulnerable friends or family, but do any of them have vulnerable friends or family? DoYou know all of their friends and family to be that sure your behaviour is not impacting someone else down the line? Highly unlikely. You are being totally unreasonable and very selfish and adding into the problem.

People working in data warehouses have all of that info on you anyway.

Errr, do you know what a data warehouse is? You don't work in one.

I would always give my correct number for track and trace but I have used false numbers before when asked for marketing purposes.

Threads like this confirm I've been right in avoiding all restaurants, cafés and pubs this year!

I've literally been in one single restaurant since New Year. And I was dragged along to that reluctantly by the friend who'd booked it for when we met up without asking me first. I only went because they had an outdoor table.

I can't risk my vulnerable family members' or my health due to idiots lying like this. If providing your details is so awful, just don't go! Glad places are starting to insist on the QR codes. My friend runs a café and she phones the numbers provided to check they are real when customers come on. If it's fake, she refuses then service. It's amazing how many people 'suddenly remember' their other, real phone number when checked on like this - 'Oh, yeah, I wrote down my old number/work mobile, I forgot I had a different phone with me today, oops!'

Actually @Potterpotterpotter I’m just speaking as someone whose vulnerable family member has been made very, very ill from Covid and we don’t know where she picked it up. We may still lose her. She’s not old. It’s fucking shit when people happily go round admitting they’d willingly spread something because they’ve decided they’re above the measures being taken to prevent the spread. Like you.

So yeah, it was juvenile but I stand by my prick comment.

My friend runs a café and she phones the numbers provided to check they are real when customers come on. If it's fake, she refuses then service

Good god. Where I work we spend alot of time on our own. We do not have the staff for that kind of stunt. Its already a struggle as it is. I get enough abuse about it already god knows what they would do if I did that.

And I'd get about a gazillion complaints about being on the phone instead if serving

@Roomba Exactly - I've only been to one place and it had an outside table. I'm pregnant and just not willing to take the risk. Even if you're taking all the right precautions, you don't know how everyone else is behaving. Not worth it.

People who do this are the same cunts that send their kids into school they say after having d&v, claiming they are “fine” and thus spreading the bug to everyone else.

People who do this are the same cunts that send their kids into school they say after having d&v, claiming they are “fine” and thus spreading the bug to everyone else

How the hell do you know that. Ffs. Most of us complied with absolutely everything. We wear masks we avoid seeing people.

Drawing a line leaving details when there's already srories of them being abused is understandable and not remotely anything like sending in kids with d&v.

There are many reasons people don't want to or don't feel safe in handing over their private number. Akd once again even the POLICE were told to not download the app..so clearly its problematic

@PhilCornwall1 Get yourself off to pedant's corner. This is a forum where a slip of the keyboard happens and I know very well what a data warehouse is as someone in my family works in that field. And yes, I know it's not actually a field.

@Baaaahhhhh

Each and every one of those who are giving false numbers have absolutely no right to then complain about the control of Covid and the consequences of lockdown. You are the problem. Want to know why other countries are doing better? Compliance,, pure and simple.

They will be the people who say they will ignore any local restrictions, send their children to parties and sleepovers even if they are sent home from school to isolate and openly continue to justify taking potential infection into workplaces to their colleagues to the public.

@peboh I think you mean TYPICAL English woman, unless you are sitting on a desert island typing this.

My daughter is at uni. She was in a pub a week ago that has since been shut because of so many staff getting cv. She uses the NHS app and hasn't been contacted. She's isolating anyway for another reason but just shows the app is well meaning but shit.

If people r not going to follow the rules of a place ie pub cafe then they shouldnt be going to that said place. Like with any other rules that r in place
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Depends when the first person showed symptoms @Janevaljane, if more than 2 days since your daughter was there I don’t think she would be contacted

@teenagetantrums

I cant afford two weeks off work if someone in same cafe as me gets a positive test. So yes l always give a false number. However l also get tested at work weekly. It's a risk assesment l choose to do

You are putting others at risk with this behaviour. If you cannot follow the rules don’t go to the cafe!

Even if you're taking all the right precautions, you don't know how everyone else is behaving

People can be as badly behaved as they like.
If they are one of the millions of people who aren’t infected then you are perfectly safe.

@ineedaholidaynow

Depends when the first person showed symptoms *@Janevaljane*, if more than 2 days since your daughter was there I don’t think she would be contacted

as I've mentioned before my in laws visited a pub on swansea a Wednesday and Thursday. on Tuesday Was when some staff was admitted to hospital from that pub.. they've not closed the pub, nobody has contacted my in lows

im not saying t&t is crap but I'm not surprise the numbers are going up if people give wrong numbers and this makes it more difficult for them

Depends when the first person showed symptoms @Janevaljane, if more than 2 days since your daughter was there I don’t think she would be contacted

Two of the staff have confirmed cv, so I presume they've been tested, so unlikely to have been tested and shut down within 2 days!

@JinglingHellsBells I certainly did. I can't even blame lack of sleep on my terrible writing this morning haha.
If anyone has a desert island I can borrow though, I'll happily take them up on it 🤷🏻‍♀️

And this is why track and trace won’t work - because of stupid and irresponsible people like your friend. But it’s ok - we can all blame Boris right.