Le Freak, C'est Chic...

[ralerin]

This happened Saturday.

If someone doesn't have their "Healthiness +" card with them, we ask for their phone number. Most people usually give their numbers with pleasure so they can get their discounts.

Not this woman.

She FREAKED OUT at K that K DARED to ask for her phone number. Communism! Terrorism! HOW DARE WE DEMAND HER PHONE NUMBER WE PROBABLY SOLD IT TO A S&M PORN MAGAZINE GET YOUR MANAGER RIGHT NOW!!!

SM walks over and the woman demands to know why we ask for her phone number. Don't you know that someone can steal that number and do all sorts of horrible things?!?

Sm says, "That's how we track who you are."

"WELL I AM NOT HAVING ANY OF IT YOU CAN PUT EVERYTHING BACK I AM NEVER SHOPPING HERE AGAIN!!!"

Bonus: Trickery

So my Aid of Rite is located near a facility for mental health. Many of our customers go there. Someone got the bright idea to use that phone number as their phone number for the card. Someone else also got the bright idea to use 555-1234. There's hundreds of such fake numbers out there, with hundreds of people using them to get the 20% off discount. From what I understand, corporate is supposedly "cracking down" on such fake numbers. I think this cracking down is a crock of poo and it will continue on unchecked.

[EvilEmpryss]

. . . So my Aid of Rite is located near a facility for mental health. . . .

This, unfortunately, is no surprise, considering the craziness you've written about.

[MoonCat]

Yeah, I was kinda thinking the second point was related to the first!

We've had people like that on the phones, too. Their phone number is a Big Secret. But they'll happily give you their Social Security number, their bank routing number and their checking account number.

[telecom_goddess]

My oldest daughter is applying to work at Aid of Rite today....I can't wait until she comes home with stories

[Peppergirl]

Wow, Ralerin. This explains ALOT about some of your posts.

[telecom_goddess]

Wow, Ralerin. This explains ALOT about some of your posts.

I guess it does!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

You mean you DON'T sell the phone numbers to S&M magazines? So that must be why I've not seen any in my mailbox.

Are you sure that customer in the first story isn't a patient at the nearby mental facility? That would be enough said right there.

[dalesys]

...a patient at the nearby mental facility?

They're the nice quiet ones that don't get noticed.


(We were very well behaved on excursions)

...back at the ranch, not so much so...

[superhotelworker]

They're the nice quiet ones that don't get noticed.


(We were very well behaved on excursions)

...back at the ranch, not so much so...

You beat me to it. Dang.
Ralerin: How have you NOT gone bonkers yet? I think we should rent you & some of your co-irkers a bouncy room.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

They're the nice quiet ones that don't get noticed.


(We were very well behaved on excursions)

...back at the ranch, not so much so...

I always heard it was the quiet ones one has to watch. . .must be some truth to that.

[roothorick]

So my Aid of Rite is located near a facility for mental health. Many of our customers go there. Someone got the bright idea to use that phone number as their phone number for the card. Someone else also got the bright idea to use 555-1234. There's hundreds of such fake numbers out there, with hundreds of people using them to get the 20% off discount. From what I understand, corporate is supposedly "cracking down" on such fake numbers. I think this cracking down is a crock of poo and it will continue on unchecked.

My phone number, hmm, let's see...

roothorick@thebeast ~ $ makepasswd --chars=10 --string=0123456789
2936778197

My phone number is (293) 677-8197. Good enough, ya?

(I'm writing that down in my wallet.)

Seriously, there are as many fake phone numbers as there are combinations of 10 digits that do not match my real phone number. This crackdown WILL fail.

[Shalom]

Seriously, there are as many fake phone numbers as there are combinations of 10 digits that do not match my real phone number. This crackdown WILL fail.

Er, not exactly. The first three digits have to match a known NPA, and the fourth digit can only be [29]. I haven't got the time right now to figure out exactly how many combinations this leaves out, especially since I long ago lost track of how many new NPAs they came out with, but the number of fake telephone numbers is rather less than (1e10)-1.

(yes, I've been subscribing to comp.dcom.telecom since 1993, how'd you guess?)

[TheMike]

They're the nice quiet ones that don't get noticed.


(We were very well behaved on excursions)

...back at the ranch, not so much so...

Yeah, the ones at the facility are the ones who get their meds. its the "free-range looneys" you gotta be careful of.

[tropicsgoddess]

Wow, Ralerin. This explains ALOT about some of your posts.

Yeah! I always wondered why Ralerin got all the crazy SC's...now we know why!

[ralerin]

Ralerin: How have you NOT gone bonkers yet? I think we should rent you & some of your co-irkers a bouncy room.

Beats me.

Ha, I had no idea my customers were so insane, I just consider them par for the course. SM did warn me before I was hired about the mental facility but I went "Meh" and jsut accepted it. I just guess I'm that sort of person.