09-21-2005, 09:52 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Beat the Automated Answering System (Find-A-Human)
searched for this, got blank pages
there was an article about this in USAToday quite a while back but here is a site with some of the valuable info you need to speed up your customer service interactions over the phone https://www.quickbase.com/db/bam6rdiey?a=q&qid=5 Quote:
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09-22-2005, 04:18 AM | #2 (permalink) |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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I just ignore all requests to press anything-eventually the bot gets the idea I must be on a rotary phone and puts me through to a person-works 99% of the time....
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09-22-2005, 04:23 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Junkie
Moderator Emeritus
Location: Chicago
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If you ever call amtrack -- they have a voice automated system that is actually pretty good (as long as it can understand you) But to bypass it all -- you can say agent at any point and you get connected directly to a person.
On American Airlines, you can by pass all the voice menus by hitting 0 At my bank, you can bypass all the upselling messages by hitting 1
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09-22-2005, 06:07 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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Location: Colorado
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I spent 10 minutes on the phone with Capital One trying to report a found credit card, yesterday. What a pain. No, I don't have social security or zip code info, I found the f'ing card. Even after getting through to a human, they wanted my personal info. No thanks, I did you a favor, I reported the card, you don't need my name or anything else.
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09-22-2005, 07:18 AM | #6 (permalink) |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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Tuesday I had no internet service so I called the cable company. I made the mistake of putting in my home phone as apparently within the last 6 months, they went totally bot-crazy.
I get a woman-bot which then proceeds to tell me to answer yes or no-do I have a modem that also uses voicemail? no "ok, great. now, let's begin some trouble-shooting....." This went on for several minutes with the bot telling me when I am done with whatevah, just say 'continue'. After about the 5th time, I said 'this is fucking nuts' to which I got 'I'm sorry, I did not understand your response. Please say, "continue".... I hung up, redialed, did NOT respond to any prompt and finally got a real person to whom I said, 'that damned bot is the worst thing I have ever encountered aside from a meddling mother-in-law and please put that down as an official complaint'. Nice to know I made someone's day a little brighter with some laughs.....
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09-22-2005, 07:27 AM | #7 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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was interesting when we had to call israel and got it all in hebrew.... and none of us spoke hebrew.
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09-22-2005, 08:13 AM | #9 (permalink) |
Lover - Protector - Teacher
Location: Seattle, WA
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For some reason, I get a strange pleasure out of screaming obscenities at the bots to see what they do -- similar to IM'ing SmarterChild with random phrases to see his response. Even if I get the "I'm sorry, I did not understand you" option, I get to chuckle as the person near me watches me scream "NO FUCK YOU I DON'T WANT THAT" into the phone (and hears the faint "voice" of the bot from my speaker -- thinking I'm actually talking to someone).
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