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I'm Sorry, I Can't Do That Dave.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 | 11:30 am

Hating the IVR? (interactive voice response, that is, the guided recordings you get on most companies toll free lines that ask you to "choose from the following menu...")

Here's a website that tells you how to get to a human operator fast for many major corporations. Worth it just for the page name "Find A Human"

Watson -- you read this page thinking I was talking about you, didn't chya?

4 Comments:

At 21/9/05 7:19 am, Anonymous said...: This page is awesome! I am SO tired of talking to the Sprint computer. "If you're getting frustrated, say 'Fuck you!'"

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At 23/9/05 1:28 am, Anonymous said...: "Open up! It's me Dave!"
"Who?"
"DAVE!"
"Dave who?"
At 26/9/05 8:01 am, Anonymous said...: I used it! I did it to the Sprint computer female voice yesterday! The first time she said, "Speak..." I said, "AGENT!" and it took me directly to a human. What a feeling of power to make that asinine computer do just what I wanted it to!!!
At 27/9/05 9:55 am, Anonymous said...: What pisses me off is the big lie when they say "Please listen to the entire menu as our options have changed."

Bullshit. I just start pounding on "O" in the vain attempt to speak to a breathing human.