ARE YOU SURE no one's closeby???

[pizzaparlorchick]

I was taking a phone order at the pizza place I work at. A man wanted to pay with his credit card over the phone.
He read off the numbers to me and I QUIETLY repeated them.
In the midst of repeating the numbers for accuracy...
SC: Is anyone near you??
Me: What?
SC: Is anyone listening in on our conversation?
Yeah, there's a guy with a little black notebook right across from me .
Me: No.
SC: Are you sure no one is closeby?


HAHA that made me laugh. I was obviously trying to half-whisper the numbers back to him for accuracy...

Yeah dude that's what the whisper is all about... lol

[friendofjimmyk]

I could understand his concern. At work, when our drivers perform a service where someone has to pay (i.e. installation of a battery), the drivers have to radio in for credit card payments. We, as dispatchers, can put the driver on a private channel so that no other drivers or people in range of a driver radio can hear the credit card number being read over the radio. However, and this is a BIG however, on the dispatch end, there are more than a dozen folks that can hear the credit card numbers being read. What's the point?

[PepperElf]

which makes me bring up the point
if you're worried about that kind of thing... why pay with credit card over the phone in the first place?