We’ve all been there. Something goes wrong, so you call customer service. What answers is a bizarre, arcane mess of an answering machine where you have to puzzle out exactly how company x categorizes customer issues when all you want is to talk to a human being. Saying “Complaint” cuts through all of that, but you might need to wait on hold for a bit. Just make sure you’re nice to the person on the other end.
I just curse out the machine voice with all my pent-up frustration until it sends me to a real person and then it’s easier to be kind to the person who rescued me from robot hell.
I’ve used this.
Clearly and plainly curse once. Just a simple
…and it seems* to get me somewhere.
*SurvivorBias, probably, but don’t make it weird.
This used to work better, but some places still detect curse words and cut through the phone tree.