Tag#callcentres

a tale of two email addresses

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I work as a call-taker for a government agency and I’m fed up with the number of calls I get complaining about our website. All my colleagues feel the same way. Anyone who has worked in a support call centre like ours probably does too. Normally my job is fine, but I – in fact, all of us in the call centre – keep getting stuck on calls with people who are angry that there aren’t email addresses listed on our website to contact about their problems. Customers often don’t want to call us with their problems because, even though we do our best, there can be a long wait-time on hold and sometimes...

please hold

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A few months ago, my laptop speakers stopped working when I needed them for a uni assignment that required using audio and video resources. Hoping to get it fixed quickly, I called my closest customer support store. After 15 minutes on hold I was redirected to a technical support team in another part of the country to schedule an appointment with the technician in the store I called. Surprisingly, I was only offered an appointment in 3 weeks’ time from the date when I called, and it was at a computer repair shop on the other side of the city. I couldn’t wait that long because the assignment...

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