4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Press one. Press two. Try to find a human, but you can’t. Welcome to the nightmare that is customer service.
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0:00.0 | We can't find an open case matching the phone number you're calling from. |
0:04.0 | To connect you to an agent, I would require the serial number. |
0:08.0 | Once you've located your serial number, press one. |
0:14.0 | It's called CX or customer experience. |
0:17.0 | And with each passing year, what you've been experiencing while on hold trying to get help is not good. |
0:25.0 | I was really angry that I had to spend four and a half hours on the phone. |
0:28.0 | Even though the people I spoke with were delightful. |
0:32.0 | But they couldn't resolve the situation. |
0:34.0 | They couldn't get the billing right. |
0:36.0 | They couldn't give me the deal that their representative came to my house to give me. |
0:44.0 | As listener Maddie and Wilmore can talk to you with a customer experience of the cable company spectrum, |
0:49.0 | billing her before they'd even started her service. |
0:53.0 | And there's more. |
0:55.0 | You called in with much, much more. |
0:59.0 | Here's James in Ava on Massachusetts. |
1:01.0 | Customer service is at its lowest peak in history. |
1:04.0 | I believe I tried 20 times or so to contact someone at Walnut. |
1:11.0 | And it was impossible. |
1:13.0 | And then when I got to the pharmacy, they said they would put someone on. |
1:17.0 | And they did want to hear my complaint. |
1:19.0 | And then there's Heath Farmer in Laguna, New York, California, |
1:22.0 | who got tossed into an Instacart black hole after they delivered his groceries to the wrong address. |
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