... on the one hand, no phone tree, hooray. On the other hand, I appear to have called a business who doesn't even have an answering machine, and the phone just rang continuously for multiple minutes until I hung up. What?
You know how sometimes stuff sucks so much it goes full circle and you become David Attenborough narrating a documentary in fascination? I hate phones so much ♥
- [A], a business who is open today during regular business hours, does not have a phone tree, but also doesn't have an answering machine and it just rang until I gave up without an answer.
- [B] has the most phone tree. Normally it's functional; today I raised my voice at a robot because it kept ignoring my request to let me talk to a human and sending me down phone tree paths I didn't want instead. I did eventually get through; the human solved my problem in the time it takes a phone tree to read off its latest option set.
- [C] also has a phone tree, which they changed up very slightly since my last encounter. Probably for the best. However, turns out they lied about office hours and are actually closed today.
- ...try [A] again? Maybe? Nope, just rings for a few minutes until it cuts out to blast a chipper "your call cannot be completed at this time~♪" error message. (Wow I feel old, when was the last time I heard a telephone error message?)
- On to [D]– oh right they close at lunch time on Fridays. Also this phone tree sucks. Well, THEY'RE the ones who were vaguging me, if I have no idea why they're contacting me at all this can be a Them problem.
FINAL RESULTS: 1.5 successes out of 4! Phones can go to hell and I hate everything 🥰