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[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 months ago

Well, at least the sense of humor is present on both sides.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 62 points 6 months ago

Most companies would do their CS agents a lot of good by allowing them to be themselves a bit more. The amount of times you can hear the inner turmoil as an agent knows they're saying something wrong, but that's what's on the script is painful, and you waste about 30 mins just breaking through "the company code"

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 131 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

The most unbelievable part of this is someone using Haiku as a daily driver.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

it's getting there :(

[-] SexualPolytope 30 points 6 months ago

I had the same fucking experience setting up a modem. I was doing everything on their instructions, but it simply won't register on the network. Customer service kept trying to get me to rent their first party modem. I had to spend almost a day, calling 4 separate times until finally someone forwarded me to an engineer. And boom, fixed in 30 seconds.

[-] dlok@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I always keep the isp provided router for the rare case i need support. On the flip side if the problem goes away it's a me problem.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

Please try uninstalling your OS and all applications, reinstall, unplug your modem, blow on it, and plug it back in. Call us back after you've done that and after waiting in the queue for an hour give this reference number to an associate who will promptly tell you there are no notes on your case but they will be happy to start from the beginning with you.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago

You forgot to switch the ends of the Wi-Fi signal, that's why you had to start over.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A stuffed penguin doll and a poster of some bearded dude with a swords.

Perfect! Put her on.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago

The penguin was obviously meant to be Tux, but I had to rely on Explain XKCD to realise that the bearded dude is meant to be Richard Stallman, specifically in reference to an earlier XKCD.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

I know, I got it, but the description of it and RMS... IDK, I found it really funny 🤣🤣🤣.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 6 months ago

I had to call the electricity company to resolve a fucking clusterfuck of their making the other day (long story short my electricity meter is faulty), and after 3-4 calls I got to someone who said "jesus christ" after I explained my situation and how they'd made it worse trying to resolve it...

She didn't fix it, it's still not fully fixed after a further 4 days including 29 hours without power, but gee did I feel like I was speaking to a fellow human who was trying to help in that conversation above all others I had with them

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 28 points 6 months ago

Back in the ADSL days, I once had to call my ISP because my service was down. No matter how many times I explained that the physical copper line was cut because a truck hit the phone pole, the person on the other end followed their script and asked if I tried restarting the router.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 24 points 6 months ago

I always suspect they hate the scripts too. But they're almost certainly sanctioned if they stray from the script, even if it ultimately helps the user out in the end.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Yep. Though there are times you can get away with it. I was told by a supervisor that, no I wasn't going to get written up for telling a customer to "shut up and listen to me, if you hang up the phone I cannot solve your issue." They did however tell me that I was to act as though I had been thoroughly chewed out, as something like a dozen people heard me say that.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 6 months ago

When I worked at a callcenter the general guidance was "if they don't want to be helped, let them reach back out whenever they do" which was really helpful for people who just wanted to pick a fight since it gave a clear guidance of "hey, if you dont want to do this right now now here's how to get back in contact"

[-] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

They mostly hate the script way more than you do. Most phone support just wants to get you off the phone, ideally after resolving your issue, but thats not always the priority. Sometimes ya just gotta clear the queue.

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I used to have lots of interesting and fun conversations with customers when I was at AWS.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 7 points 6 months ago

Dude same. I worked on a stupid niche service called Ground Station, and my favorite call ever was telling a customer their satellite crossed LOS with the ISS so we couldn't transmit at their scheduled time (you never transmit directly at the ISS for obvious reasons). Somehow even that took multiple explanations for them to get that it was not our fault, and that we'd be breaking the law in pretty much every country on the planet if our antennas did not stop us from doing so.

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