Would I be unreasonable to track someone down through their workplace?

[OneShyBear]

I’m a foster carer to 2 children. I met another foster carer by chance on Friday in a Costa when I was doing a care planning meeting on a zoom on my laptop. She overheard the whole meeting and then told me after that she was also a foster carer too and then we both chatted for over another 2 hours. At the end she wrote her phone number down on a piece of paper and told me to text her and keep in touch. We had worked out that we both had similar issues (with social services and in terms of support needed for our foster children) and similar experiences as foster carers and had worked out that we could both support each other and stay in touch as friends. I’ve lost the piece of paper that she wrote her number down on and I only have her first name and not her surname. During the conversation she did tell me that as well as being a foster carer she also works part time and she told me her workplace/the company (it’s a large/national company/organisation) that she works for too, would I be unreasonable to contact the company/organisation and give them my number and her first name (and the other information that she gave me during the conversation that could help her company identify the right person) and ask if they can track her down internally by any chance and pass on my number to her? Obviously I understand that they wouldn’t be able to give me her details or her number due to data protection but I could ask them to pass my number on to her if they could manage to track her down internally? Would I be unreasonable to do this? I’m happy to do it and I want to do it but my DH doesn’t think I should as he thinks that going through her workplace is “weird”. We both really got along well and genuinely intended to keep in touch (before I lost her number) as friends and we both had very similar experiences as foster carers too.

How did you complete this verification? Simply taking her word for it?

Wow this doesn't seem possible.... Safe guarding completely out of the window here.. Shocking, I'd have sat in the car not costa.
Surprised you haven't been reprimanded!

I doubt she has told her employer. She'd have been sacked if she had. Shocking conduct by a foster carer.

Of course she hasn’t. She is unable to follow the most basic of work protocols despite the clear risks to vulnerable children. She also refuses to listen to her husband or the concerned posters on this thread because that allows her bullishly proceed in doing exactly what she wants.

There was a real vindictiveness in coming back to update everyone on now being in contact with the woman she has been obsessing about. It’s as though she thinks this somehow justifies her behaviour. Well, it doesn’t, regardless of the psychological or psychiatric issues at play.

I think that it is concerning to have a care planning meeting in a public place. I would have felt really embarrassed to find out that she heard everything. As you foster children how do you know that the person was not related to your charges and was spying on you. Hope everything works out well but I personally don’t think it’s a good idea to contact her.