You would not survive the age before cellphones.
Gee, I wonder how you ask a girl out when its unwanted at her job.
1. You probably shouldn't. There are tons of more appropriate contexts to meet people in (no, cellphones don't make a difference)
2. If you must, then tell her you think she's groovy and either give her a piece of paper with your number (home phones have been a thing for over a century bro) or ask if you can come back when her shift ends to hangout.
3. Don't be surprised if you get turned down. Be normal about it and let it go.
Note that both of these options put the ball in the other persons court regarding meeting you outside of work. These aren't the only options but you always want the other person to have the deciding power. Its just like asking people out in any other context.
You don't need to secretly manipulate encounters into happening by stealing the shift schedule. Jesus. Just talk to people bro.
Hell you could pull the classic "I'm going to [public event] I'd love it if we could meet up there" and give them your contact info or a place and time to meet in a public space and that would probably be fine.
You wanna see the lady at panera bread? Il Just come in to buy shit regularly and do one of the above actions when next you see her. You don't need to stalk her and deduce or steal her exact schedule. That's creepy as fuck dude.
But really. Please don't ask people out on the job. I get it, the customer service smile and niceness is charming. But remember
this person is being paid to be nice to you. They
might actually like you if you're a regular but that's still no excuse to stalk them.
We can tell when you're coming in for a specific clerk and not the product. Its generally a bad vibe. Please don't do that.
I had a coworker who was a magnet for these kinds of things. Two customers asked her out while we were on shift together. Both got turned down but one of them took it really badly and started trying to stalk her and figure out her exact schedule to "bump into" her. He also would try to monopolize her time when she was in front of house. To the point that she would have to go hide in the back when he showed up. The other one just constantly left little gifts for her. Still creepy because of persistence in spite of rejection, but at least he wasn't trying to engineer encounters like you said you do.
People have tried to follow her home too.
FYI in customer service our policy is not to answer any "when is so and so working today" questions. Specifically because certain people think its okay to stalk the workers. Don't fucking do that.
Last thought experiment for you. You are working an emotionally demanding job. Some person you don't like and you don't know keeps showing up when you're on the clock and not at any other time. Are you going to be enthused about them asking you out?
Tldr: don't ask people out on the job. But if you do it anyway, just talk to them (and accept a no) like a normal person instead of stalking them. Jesus Christ. This applies whether you have a cell phone or not.
