Respond when a manager asks for personal contact data

Instruction: Respond to the manager with a clear boundary and a productive next action.

Context:

A prospect has not responded to two approved business emails. Your manager says, “Find their personal mobile or Gmail address. We need a meeting this week.” The prospect has not requested that contact stop.

The fictional company policy permits approved business channels only and explicitly forbids searching for personal email addresses or phone numbers. There is no approved exception. Check ownership and suppression before outreach and honor stop requests across channels. The policy does not specify how many attempts remain on this account. Apply the company rule without presenting it as a universal legal rule.

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“I can work on getting us a relevant conversation this week, but our policy rules out personal-contact searches. I will check whether we have the right business contact, review the messages, and confirm what outreach is still permitted...

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