Wish I could add more up-votes to this.

Oh yeaahhh, sing it sister. Drives me insane!

There are sites that are made for getting past paywalls and account locks, they are very useful.

Thank you!

Press 1 for blah blah. Press 2 for yadda yadda. Press 3 for Bob.

How about those that keep listing 10 other options even when you reached option you need and already pressed it.

This. It's just unprofessional.

I think there should be both options, I personally have crippling anxiety about calling and talking to a real person I don't know, so being able to make an appointment or whatever without talking to a potentially judgemental person is very helpful to me. I understand how it can be frustrating, but it does help people on all sides in multiple ways. The company can save manpower and reduce the number of people on the payroll, customers don't have to wait for a representative, and people like me can be much less stressed overall when we need to call the bank.

“We are experiencing a higher than normal call volume..” No you’re not, this is your normal call volume, get more receptionists. It shouldn’t take 45 minutes on hold to make a doctors appointment.

Well it's 1 for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to get ready and 4 to hear these options again.

"hello this is mental health hotline, press 1 if you are delusional and you will be sent through to the mother ship. Press 2 if you are by polar and then 3 and 4, press 5 if you are paranoid and we will know where your location is." Mental health hotline. Ringtone. And yes I have bipolar. And yes I get a kick out this ringtone. But Lord when you answer to a non person you feel like your on the mental health hotline 🤬

Yes! Rather than deal with their wonky website! Nothing worse than coming up to a brick wall, when all you want is a simple fix..

Comcast is the worst about this. They make it incredibly hard to find the phone number in the first place, and when you do call, it takes an act of congress to get to a live person.

Yes!! Sometimes I just want to talk to somebody!

Yes pah leaze!

Maybe if I could just say what I wanted instead of going through 20 prompts, pushing numbers, I might not have a problem with

*competent* person for me

After 20 min of playing automated service hopscotch, you still can't get a damned human on the line! Cheap-a** ba**tards!

It " getahuman" still around ? Full of tips on how to get a human for bunch companies.

I’m sorry, I could not understand your command please speak more clearly…

Or someone who understands the words that ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH!

A real person who doesn't have a thick, unintelligible accent would be nice too. If that's the case I'll just use your web chat. I have issues deciphering voices so phone calls are really hard for me when I can't understand the other person, it's really stressful.

No kidding! And I’m not trying to sound biased, but can it please be a person that speaks English to where I can understand them? It is so difficult trying to talk to someone who does know my native tongue, but they know it with a very thick accent. I hate calling a place trying to get an order canceled, and I’m praying to the call center gods that they understood i wanted my order to be canceled. Then, come to find out, 3 days later I received that order and now I have to call back again to get a return label 🤬🤬🤬

Press 2 for instructions in English.

I have never, never called a business and been helped by the automated system. There is a reason I want to talk to a rep. and it's because the robo-lady can't answer my questions...ever.

Pressing zero immediately I find gets you to a real person about 60% of the time.

Throw your phone out the window to hear these options again....

Or to reach a representative, dial 8. Then that just puts you in another telephone rodeo. THEM: (recording) "to serve you better, please tell us your problem." ME: "My WiFi /internet is out." THEM: "You may be able to solve your problem faster by going to www.spe*trum.com." ME: "@#%&*!! My WiFi/internet is OUT! If I could do that, I wouldn't need to call you now, would I??!!" ME AGAIN: "Do we have any Jack Daniels left?"

Many times if you press 0 it will send you to a person, but not always

Please....so much faster Hello this is corporate ball blah how many I direct the call. Genius AND employment. Gen X.

If you don't want to hold, PLEASE PRESS 1. We'll save your place in the que and call you back. Me presses 1 and is immediately disconnected.

This is even more frustrating when you're trying to reach your doctors office or following up on a job application. Press 1 a thousand X's if you're really frustrated.

After about 10 seconds I suddenly hear: To kick the CEO in the balls, Press 4. To b***h slap the VP of Finance, Press 5. By the time I'm kicking the lowly managers,, I start screaming "Representative, Representative".

Keep saying "Representative" or "Agent" and pressing the #7 over and over again until a human speaks.......

Hate the ' creepy ' voice guy that repeats your entry ! then says Press 1 if correct

If you know your party's extension enter it now...haha good luck with that 😉. You have now entered the telephone twilight zone🎶🎶

People are expansive. Even Indians cost more than automatic system.

To me having to phone the company is by itself "boomer". I prefer to do things online.

And the smell of the pages are lovely

Not a boomer take. Our time is precious no matter what you are doing. Even if it is doing nothing.