• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to say

    “Blrahkystkoicsu”

    “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand, can you say the reason for your call?”

    “Blarkvgjstklbftk!!!”

    “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand, can you say the reason for your call?”

    “BLAFRHDYDKJKSTKLV!!!”

    “I seem to be having issue understanding you. Please stand by as I connect you with someone who can help.”

    Fuck you AI!

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      I tried doing something similar to this years ago with Verizon. Finally the automated messaged just said " I am unable to understand your request, goodbye"

      I thought it was the funniest yet most irritating thing at the time.

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        On verizon I use the keypad. I still remember the options menu from before.

        They tried shutting me out of it. So I started paying in cash at a store for 6 months. Now they have to be responsible for taking that money to the bank. Suddenly the next time I called, the keypad menu worked again.

        Funny how that works.

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        4 months ago

        I had something like this before as well! I kept asking the robot to be connected to a representative. And at the end it just said it couldn’t help me and hung up!! Dude I was so pissed.

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    Remember the days before automated voice shit? Where you’d just spam “0” until it connected you with a rep?

    It was so easy!

    Now, it’s I NEED to direct you to the right department. Did you want to pay your bill? If so say YES if not say: Something else.

    Whoever designed that system—straight to hell.

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        Yep. There are a few where you can press star a few times in a row and get a person because the system is set up for accessibility.

        Unfortunately there’s no mandated way that systems have to implement this so it doesn’t work on all of them. Sometimes you have to try several things.

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      Sometimes you can mash # or * to get to a person! Sometimes it also hangs up so it’s pretty hit or miss

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    I personally just start a long monologue of swearing at whatever dumbfuck thought it was a good idea to make an AI answer the phone.

    Then I am extremely pleasant to the human when they pick-up.

    They generally record and log every call, so I give the human reviewer something to enjoy.

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        I really hate the modern trend of having the stupid thing pop out some random name hoping you don’t notice that it’s a computer.

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          Google has an automated reservation bot, which when it calls you it introduces itself as a robot. Then uses um, like, and other filler words and pauses to sound more human. Pick a lane! Either announce yourself to be a bot and act like a bot, or pretend to be a human.

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      Cursing doesn’t work as well as it did a few years back, but I try it on the chance it does! I Hulk out on the robot and then turn Bruce Banner on the rep.

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      “I want to speak to a human you stupid fucking machine.”

      “Oh hi Steve, thank you so much for taking my call…”

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    Some versions of that system will detect frustration and connect you to a representative, so if you just swear at it a few times, you get into the human queue immediately.