On (25 Jul 03) Steve Asher wrote to George Pope...
 SA> In the mean time, anyone foolish enough to call a large business or
 SA> government department is forced to fight their way through a barrier
 SA> of "if you want to report a fault, press 2", "if you
want customer
 SA> service, press 5", "to hear this message again, press
7" (as if anyone
 SA> would want to hear that crap again), until they get to a burst of ring
 SA>
 SA> tone, which is then answered by another voice advising that "all our
 SA> operators are busy, please hold", then some corporate messages
 SA> boasting
 SA> about (that corporation's) excellent customer service & facilities.

Got that here, too, except instead of "please hold", you get dumped into
ANOTHER computer voicemail menu system (or, as happened to me, the SAME
one, at the beginning!) :|

And all the superfluous info you gotta put in -- I put my telephone
number & account number in when calling the telco, only to FINALLY get
connected to a live person who doesn't have that info in front of them!
:|  (what WAS the freaking POINT??) :|

Your friend,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
Ask me how to connect with me in any of 5 different Instant Messengers


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