If you struggle with a nonstop blockade of robot command prompts every time you call a company, there’s a quick way to bypass all of the nonsense and get connected to a live representative immediately. Simply say “returning a call” when prompted for a voice command. This has worked at almost every large company I’ve tried to get in touch with in the past. Saves lots of time and frustration!
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I just say “human” over and over again and eventually most of them will connect to a live person.
Get Human used to work extremely well, now not as good, but tells you all the prompts for each company phone number
I once read in here that if you keep saying fuck or shit or anything like that it’ll redirect you to a human
After calling FedEx multiple times, they gave me to a human after I yelled “your driver hit my car!”
Returning a call is my new go-to, saves so much time.
I always just say I’m going to kill myself and that usually gets me a rep right away
“Change address” is one, too.
If it’s smaller and especially a restaurant say “I am an employee calling out of work”
I got in a never ending loop with the robot trying to answer basis yes/no questions.
Finally I yelled into the phone “are you f@$*ing kidding me?!?”
The robot replied “I’m sorry you feel that way. Let me connect you to a representative” 😳
Returning the call is better
Spam # and 0, it’ll take you to the operator
I will definitely put that in my list to try. I find asking for sales generally gets you to a person the quickest. Sales is about the only thing they won’t try and automate these days. Most sales people are people pleasers, so they’ll try and get you connected to a person if they can.
I bet you $1000 this does not work for Comcast
Similarly, if they have a sales department line call that and just ask them to transfer you to a real person. They will always have real people trying to sell you shit
I’m sure companies will figure this out and get rid of it. Used to be able to say “representative” or spam ‘0’ but now the bots just hang up if you try that.
I say, “Don’t transfer me to a human. I only want to talk to a robot.” Reverse psychology!
Select the sales option or anything that would make them money.
Has any robot ever successfully resolved your issue or given you the information you needed? If there is one such person on the planet I’d like to know