Ever had a delivery person use your mobile number inappropriately?

ED E

Inspired by a twitter story here but the specifics of her case aren't really the point (she blames the wrong firm IMO).

1. You order takeway, get a package delivered etc
2. Receive your goods
3. Driver then whatsapps/texts you to say hi/come onto you etc etc

From the responses to the original tweet this seems to be common, especially among women. As a lad I've never had this happen but is this common?

donegaLroad

ED E wrote: »

Inspired by a twitter story here but the specifics of her case aren't really the point (she blames the wrong firm IMO).

1. You order takeway, get a package delivered etc
2. Receive your goods
3. Driver then whatsapps/texts you to say hi/come onto you etc etc

From the responses to the original tweet this seems to be common, especially among women. As a lad I've never had this happen but is this common?

Cant say its happened to me, but I knew a barman who would try and write his phone number on the head of a pint of guinness as he was pullng it, if a good looking girl ordered it.

whoopsadoodles

donegaLroad wrote: »

Cant say its happened to me, but I knew a barman who would try and write his phone number on the head of a pint of guinness as he was pullng it, if a good looking girl ordered it.

I call bull****.

Good looking girls don't order pints of Guinness.

The_Valeyard

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I call bull****.

Good looking girls don't order pints of Guinness.

You're right. Great looking girls do.

The Backwards Man

donegaLroad wrote: »

Cant say its happened to me, but I knew a barman who would try and write his phone number on the head of a pint of guinness as he was pullng it, if a good looking girl ordered it.

Must have been in the days of the manual exchange.

donegaLroad

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I call bull****.

Good looking girls don't order pints of Guinness.

This is in Toulouse.. possibly a rugby fan!

baylah17

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

donegaLroad wrote: »

Cant say its happened to me, but I knew a barman who would try and write his phone number on the head of a pint of guinness as he was pullng it, if a good looking girl ordered it.

I call bull****.

Good looking girls don't order pints of Guinness.

I call sexism

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

donegaLroad wrote: »

This is in Toulouse.. possibly a rugby fan!

Or a French bloke in drag.

RichT

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I call bull****.

Good looking girls don't order pints of Guinness.

Cristina Scabbia scrubs up well ........

893bet

Hi.....I am delivering the battered sausage you ordered?

freshpopcorn

If the just eat drive hit it off with her and they ended up together you'd read a story online about how he decided to be cheeky and texted her and she fell for the delivery drive and his naughty texts and him giving her extra food.

circadian

GDPR. A lot of businessess are in the firing line of this happens.

B.A._Baracus

People are getting too soft these days.

Wasn't just eats fault. They don't know if a driver is gonna start messaging someone or not. Heck a driver could bleeding start stalking someone. They couldn't know.

As for her side.. just tell him to fu*k off and to stop texting her. No need to out it on twitter.


Let's be honest what he did was chancing his arm. Of course he shouldn't have as it's weird to start messaging someone. But hey no crime done.

Fr_Dougal

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

People are getting too soft these days.

Wasn't just eats fault. They don't know if a driver is gonna start messaging someone or not. Heck a driver could bleeding start stalking someone. They couldn't know.

As for her side.. just tell him to fu*k off and to stop texting her. No need to out it on twitter.


Let's be honest what he did was chancing his arm. Of course he shouldn't have as it's weird to start messaging someone. But hey no crime done.

Not Just Eats fault, but they should suspend the restaurant.

Creepy thing to do. The whole “I’ll see you next time I deliver “ even more so.

PandaPoo

It happened to me a few years ago. He lived next door to me in an apartment block with his missus and daughter.
I ordered Mexican one night and He delivered it. He was really creepy and wouldn't leave me alone. Kept texting me late at night telling me he was going to call up with some beers.
I moved back to my parents(nothing to do with him) and ordered Chinese one night, guess who delivered it. I couldn't believe it. So the texts started again, asking why I moved out and he missed me. I told him I'd call the guards if he text me again and He said he found my diary in the skip when I moved out of my apartment and He reads it and "enjoys" it. Absolute creepo.

boege

OP

This company made an unlawful use of your personal information.

You can request that your phone number is deleted.

I would suggest you report it to the company or to the data protection commissioner.

More info here:

https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/A-guide-to-your-rights-Plain-English-Version/r/858.htm

donegaLroad

PandaPoo wrote: »

It happened to me a few years ago. He lived next door to me in an apartment block with his missus and daughter.
I ordered Mexican one night and He delivered it. He was really creepy and wouldn't leave me alone. Kept texting me late at night telling me he was going to call up with some beers.
I moved back to my parents(nothing to do with him) and ordered Chinese one night, guess who delivered it. I couldn't believe it. So the texts started again, asking why I moved out and he missed me. I told him I'd call the guards if he text me again and He said he found my diary in the skip when I moved out of my apartment and He reads it and "enjoys" it. Absolute creepo.

Next time your otdering a Chinese, get some guy you know to answer the door wearing a balaclava.

ED E

boege wrote: »

OP

This company made an unlawful use of your personal information.

You can request that your phone number is deleted.

I would suggest you report it to the company or to the data protection commissioner.

More info here:

https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/A-guide-to-your-rights-Plain-English-Version/r/858.htm

Im the OP didnt happen to me.

The tweeter is in the UK so the Irish DPC isnt very useful.

Grab All Association

On Heir Hunters BBC there was a story about a milkman who was having sex with woman he was delivering milk to. The heir hunters were trying to find his descendants.

They missed a great opportunity to quote a line from Father Ted. Delivering more than just dairy products.

I think Just Eat need to go to every house he has delivered and see are there any hairy babies.

Axwell

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Not Just Eats fault, but they should suspend the restaurant.

Creepy thing to do. The whole “I’ll see you next time I deliver “ even more so.

Why suspend the restaurant - they did nothing wrong? Its a driver, Just Eat should suspend the guy they hired as their delivery driver. He is their staff member.

boege

ED E wrote: »

Im the OP didnt happen to me.

The tweeter is in the UK so the Irish DPC isnt very useful.

Apologies, lazy reading on my part, however the UK data protection legislation will be similar (its an EU Directive).

It is still an improper (and most likely illegal) use of personal information. Its also creepy - what if he took offence at her rejection and took it further.

dresden8

Claim there.

copperhead

it happened to me once, got a takeaway one night
and delivery guy kept ringing, texting and even knocking
at the door it was soo intimidating and scary,
guards were eventually involved !!! shur how was i to know had to pay the delivery driver !!

duffman13

Axwell wrote: »

Why suspend the restaurant - they did nothing wrong? Its a driver, Just Eat should suspend the guy they hired as their delivery driver. He is their staff member.

Just eat doesn't employ staff to deliver, they are a third party service which literally takes the order and sends it to the shop. He's an employee of the takeaway. That said the restaurant shouldn't be suspended but should be notified by the conduct of their driver.

Dyr

I'm hungry now FFS

FizzleSticks

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uck51js9zml2yt

Axwell wrote: »

Why suspend the restaurant - they did nothing wrong? Its a driver, Just Eat should suspend the guy they hired as their delivery driver. He is their staff member.

No he's not. He works for the restaurant.

Rubberchikken

Creepy. The restaurant should at least fire him.

FanadMan

Ever had a delivery person use your mobile number inappropriately?

Back to OP. Yes.....I had a courier call me to ask me would I drive a 50 mile round-trip to collect a parcel that he was too feckin lazy to deliver. Swift call to his headquarters and he was back on the phone promising to be at my door within an hour.

NinetyTwoTeam

I was disturbed by the spelling and grammar errors in his texts more than anything. Had a Pakistani delivery driver creep on my ex similarly before, with similarly badly written texts. I'm going to guess in this case it was a foreign lad as well, due to the spelling, and creepy pickup lines seem to be a specialty of theirs, like 'See you next time I get your meal.'

And it was the guys family who owned the takeaway, as is often the case, and I'd be willing to bet it is here too or else he wouldn't be so brazen.

ubs69

893bet wrote: »

Hi.....I am delivering the battered sausage you ordered?

Eat it while it's hot 😀

AllGunsBlazing

The_Valeyard wrote: »

You're right. Great looking girls do.

Someone likes 'em chunky.

Nothing wrong with that.

Peregrinus

NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »

I was disturbed by the spelling and grammar errors in his texts more than anything . . . I'm going to guess in this case it was a foreign lad as well . . .

You have an instinct for the irrelevant, it seems. The same texts, but with better wording and spelling and from an Irish delivery guy, would be just fine?

Peregrinus

duffman13 wrote: »

Just eat doesn't employ staff to deliver, they are a third party service which literally takes the order and sends it to the shop. He's an employee of the takeaway. That said the restaurant shouldn't be suspended but should be notified by the conduct of their driver.

Just to put this in context, every time you order food for delivery to your house, there's a delivery guy who has your name, your address and, almost invariably nowadays, your mobile number. This is true whether you order though an intermediary like Just Eat or directly with the takeaway. If the thought freaks you out, give your landline, not your mobile, as the contact number; at least you can't be sent weird texts on your landline. But the delivery guy will still have your name and address; there really is no way to avoid this, short of not having stuff delivered to your house.

The immediate wrong here was committed by the delivery guy, who abused personal data that had been entrusted to him purely for work purposes, and who did it in a way likely to upset the person whose data it was. If I were the restaurant, I would fire him.

Just Eat cannot fire him, for the reason already pointed out; they don't employ him. But they should certainly make it clear to contracting restaurants that the personal data which Just Eat passes on to them is only to be used by the restaurant and its staff for the purposes for which it is given, that if there are problems around this the restaurant needs to take vigorous action to correct them, and that if this doesn't happen then the restaurant's continuing contract with Just Eat will be called into question.

RobAMerc

If this guy was a handsome model doing deliveries in his spare time, this would be considered a cute story of how he pursued and finally wooed her.

Peregrinus

RobAMerc wrote: »

If this guy was a handsome model doing deliveries in his spare time, this would be considered a cute story of how he pursued and finally wooed her.

In a third rate rom-com, possibly.

Here in the real world, stalking is stalking and abuse of personal data is abuse of personal data, no matter how well-formed the features of the person doing the stalking and the data abuse.

Michellenman

Had a taxi man call me the next day after a lift home and ask me out. I was freaked and played dumb and said he had the wrong number. Then he turned up to my place of work. That was the last time I made polite conversation and also the last time I got dropped right to my door.

Conor Bourke

I usually only order takeaway when hungover and answer the door looking like the landlady from Kingpin, unsurprisingly none of the delivery drivers have felt compelled to contact me afterwards

beans

JustEat should develop an instant messaging system that both the drivers and customers use exclusively for comms., baked into the app. Mobile phone data breaches would be a thing of the past for most customers.

Bunny Colvin

I deliver you takeaway, now you deliver baby.

sentient_6

Might be half 9 in the morning im reading this thread but jasus id love a curry.

Your Face

Its a bit creepy to be fair.

1874

Peregrinus wrote: »

Just to put this in context, every time you order food for delivery to your house, there's a delivery guy who has your name, your address and, almost invariably nowadays, your mobile number. This is true whether you order though an intermediary like Just Eat or directly with the takeaway. If the thought freaks you out, give your landline, not your mobile, as the contact number; at least you can't be sent weird texts on your landline. But the delivery guy will still have your name and address; there really is no way to avoid this, short of not having stuff delivered to your house.

The immediate wrong here was committed by the delivery guy, who abused personal data that had been entrusted to him purely for work purposes, and who did it in a way likely to upset the person whose data it was. If I were the restaurant, I would fire him.

Just Eat cannot fire him, for the reason already pointed out; they don't employ him. But they should certainly make it clear to contracting restaurants that the personal data which Just Eat passes on to them is only to be used by the restaurant and its staff for the purposes for which it is given, that if there are problems around this the restaurant needs to take vigorous action to correct them, and that if this doesn't happen then the restaurant's continuing contract with Just Eat will be called into question.

As someone suggested a good idea of an IM system, but I think one in which you can view your account, messages and transactions.
A mobile no. is going to be convenient if not essential, but the most that is required is a first name only, there's no need for further details to be passed to the delivery driver such as surname or even to the restaurant.
As a bloke Im not expecting this creepiness, but I still prefer to limit details to the bare essentials anyway, that said, I think a record in someone's personal mobile phone is more accessible than an app where you have no control over deletions and same for a landline, there would be less likely to be a record as easily accessed for future.

Just eat should be making it clear (as should any business/restaurant not even dealing with just eat) to this kind of staff or anyone employed or engaged by them in the business, about personal details passed to them are for the purposes of the business and the outcome of breaching this should be dismissal or worse.

biko

What a weird freak that driver is

And justeat.co.uk didn't handle things well at all

biko

Made the news
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5350768/woman-horrified-after-justeat-delivery-driver-bombarded-her-with-creepy-messages-after-dropping-off-food/

s15r330

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I deliver you takeaway, now you deliver baby.

Hey bby, u want sum fuk?

razorblunt

You'd think I'd get more of this because I answer the door in my skimpies.
Must be due to me being a 6'3 male ... the sexists!!


Has happened once in the past, I was at a friends house and food was on the way. The delivery lad couldn't find the gaff at all, eventually only getting through on text asking for a call back or to pick up the phone (my buddy hadn't heard the dialling). All was fine, got the food, 5 mins later another text comes through which was obviously meant to be sent to the lad's weed dealer judging by the gist of things.

That was awkward enough, but we laughed it off with him. Poor lad was mortified.

Klinkhammer

Are the lads that show up in all the Just Eat branded jackets not employed by Just Eat? I had assumed they now were employing people to rival deliveroo.

_Dara_

It's the way the driver went about it. Creepy as fook. BUT did this really need to hit social media? Just complain to the takeaway privately. I'm don't think Just Eat deserves the criticism here. Surely it's the takeaway's job to handle complaints about staff?

Bunny Colvin

s15r330 wrote: »

Hey bby, u want sum fuk?

Don't make me take u ass to Twitter.

Bunny Colvin

OSI wrote: »

Christ, she's even written her own press release.... Doesn't seem fishy at all.

https://twitter.com/ShelbyTree/status/953257055086956544

I like how she gave us her age in the opening line. It's all very informative.