Panda Bears wandered down an evolutionary cul-de-sac
and now they're stuck.
They are – evolutionarily speaking – a waste of good bamboo.
Chris Packum of The
Dailymail suggests we just let them die out.
It occurs to me, that customer service operators are
the Panda Bears of humanity.
Totally useless human beings who are nothing more
than oxygen thieves.
But before you have a go at me, I’m not being
discriminatory, I feel this way about all
customer service operators. Those in healthcare funds, superannuation funds,
telecommunications…especially
telecommunications.
They’re all spectacularly unhelpful, infuriatingly vague
and trained to PISS YOU OFF.
‘Is there anything else I can help you with?’
Anything else?
You didn’t help me in the first place.
Who trains these people?
Today I rang my healthcare fund and got a trainee,
who was so maddeningly clueless she passed me over to her trainer.
The poor girl is doomed. It won’t be possible to
learn a thing. Her trainer didn’t have any information to pass on.
I don’t start out annoyed. I never ring them when Q
is awake, I make my cup of tea during the wait music, plug in my headphones so
I can file my nails (a job I only ever get around to if I’m on the phone to
customer service operators or on a long haul flight back to the US) and always
have a sweet treat to take the edge off.
And yet, my good intentions are sabotaged. Every
single time.
It’s extraordinary.
But I think I might have cracked their code - the
only thing they’re ever taught.
Are you ready for it?
I think they’re taught to evade, avoid, deter and
dodge…and then hope.
Hope your tea has gone cold, you’ve run out of both your scotch
finger biscuits and your patience, they’ve transferred you around the world
enough times to get you motion sick, and then the clincher…that your baby
awakes and you have to abort the issue 1 hour, 23 minutes and 16 seconds into
it, with no resolution in sight.
Useless.
Far worse than Pandas.
At least they’re lovely to look at.
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