- Sep 16, 2012
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The one thing that gets my blood boiling consistently is the phone tree.
Punch 1 for this, 2 for that.
My favorite is when you sit through nine fucking options and none of them are what you fucking need.
Yeah. Phone trees. And Jews.
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When ever they give you an option that tells you NOT to hit a number unless X is true, hit that number, it will get you a human. (Usually, these are for dire circumstances and emergencies, etc.)
Then, when you get the human, tell them, oops, X isn't true, but you were just having trouble with their phone tree. The human is almost always, 95% of the time sympathetic with your plight, b/c we all hate the automated systems. They will then plug you directly into the human bureaucrat that is responsible for what you need to handle your problem.