Yeah, but when you DO know the system is totally fucked.
Calling customer service that have no cmie what they’re taking about either, pushing you through a script. One fun time my internet connection was broken and I called the provider. They walked me through all the windows settings to check if I had set up things correctly. I did run Linux, but hat set up Windows for other people so frequently that I knew how each dialog looked and how it’d respond to the failure, so I just lied. FINALLY in the end of the call that guy scheduled a reboot of my port on the provider’s DSLAM which made things work again…
(And no, not all customer service is like this. I also got amazing support of people who know what they are talking about, but they cost more for the companies than just outsourcing to the cheapest generic call center.)
I don’t know a single call centre where the level 2 agents don’t constantly complain about the utter incompetence of the level 1 agents, who appear to have never even used a mouse before.
They escalate tickets such as “the users screen is upside down”, and “callers operating system has changed to papyrus needs to be changed back”. Things that could have been fixed by both the first line service agent, and the caller, if either of them had bothered to do a 4 second Google search.
Yeah, but when you DO know the system is totally fucked.
Calling customer service that have no cmie what they’re taking about either, pushing you through a script. One fun time my internet connection was broken and I called the provider. They walked me through all the windows settings to check if I had set up things correctly. I did run Linux, but hat set up Windows for other people so frequently that I knew how each dialog looked and how it’d respond to the failure, so I just lied. FINALLY in the end of the call that guy scheduled a reboot of my port on the provider’s DSLAM which made things work again…
(And no, not all customer service is like this. I also got amazing support of people who know what they are talking about, but they cost more for the companies than just outsourcing to the cheapest generic call center.)
The level 1 agents are always useless.
I don’t know a single call centre where the level 2 agents don’t constantly complain about the utter incompetence of the level 1 agents, who appear to have never even used a mouse before.
They escalate tickets such as “the users screen is upside down”, and “callers operating system has changed to papyrus needs to be changed back”. Things that could have been fixed by both the first line service agent, and the caller, if either of them had bothered to do a 4 second Google search.