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[-] harmonea@kbin.social 77 points 10 months ago

Out of date tbh - It's never a labyrinthine phone tree anymore, it's a "natural speech" based menu that can never help with more than the most basic inquiries like "how much is my bill?" and still stubbornly refuses to put you in the queue for a real person.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago

Sometimes cursing will get you connected to a human.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

I'm my experience it'll just hang up

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It doesn't even take swearing for some of them - I had one earlier this week that hung up on me when I tried pressing zero to see if that got me anywhere. Touchier than humans.

[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Comcast once hung up on me because the system wanted to transfer me to a department whose phone system hadn't yet be set up in my region...the system force transfered me to a number that didn't exist and I was immediately disconnected.

[-] SolarNialamide@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

My pharmacy is ridiculously short-staffed because of summer, so they're only open for 3 hours in the afternoon. But because everyone is calling in those 3 hours, it's so busy you don't even get put on hold, it just says the wait time is too long and to email them and hangs up, lmao.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 17 points 10 months ago

I've found that "new customer" sometimes gets you a human quicker..

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Like how the registration button is always easier to find on a website vs the login button?

[-] MeowMeow@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 10 months ago

Speak to a representative. “Sorry I didn’t understand that”

[-] mrspaz@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

The worst is when they phrase the response as if there was just some slight, funny misunderstanding on the part of the machine; "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that! Did you want to..."

For some reason that one really drives my ire.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I've got a worse one than that- a fake typing sound effect. I've heard that one more than once.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

The fake typing is the worst. It just sounds like someone slamming random keys.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Hold on while we look up your account.

Fuck you. How can it possibly take any time to query a SQL database in 2023? The first tenth of the second of you calling them they should have taken your number and pulled it up.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Love to scream at my phone because the fucking robot can't understand me.

Key presses are so simple! Why do I have to talk to the dumb fucking robot?!

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

It's astounding how universal this hatred is. No one likes these things except the people who think it saves on labor costs (which, does it even? they're replacing a menu that was already automated...)

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