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customer service - Viking1987isback - 11-30-2025
what's everyone's thoughts on general customer service anymore I say it stinks and that's nice
RE: customer service - Mattyman - 11-30-2025
It's not as bad as the medical/pharmaceutical/health industry.
read need stories since last Thursday, you'll understand
RE: customer service - AGRforever - 12-01-2025
Customer service doesn’t pay. Every corporation has sought to cut every dollar out of even spot they could. It’s sent most of it overseas.
Just wait till there isn’t customer service. You’ll be taking to Steve from Oklahoma but Steve is a AI bot.
RE: customer service - StickierBuns - 12-01-2025
They cut back over COVID and never rehired. When you hear 'due to call volume, there'll be a wait' means we have low staff and only so many people to answer calls. What U.S. corporations have learned is you can keep pushing and pushing domestic customers into shit service/shit products and nothing is ever done about it. My wife called recently about our generator service plan and spoke with an AI bot.
Every penny a company can save they'll do it. Regardless.
RE: customer service - purplefaithful - 12-01-2025
I'm glad that more and more often I am getting the option for a call-back and not losing my place in line...Thats big for the customer like me
RE: customer service - JimmyinSD - 12-01-2025
(Yesterday, 10:34 AM)purplefaithful Wrote: I'm glad that more and more often I am getting the option for a call-back and not losing my place in line...Thats big for the customer like me
but how do you know? I have left that call back, then later decided to call anyway and gotten my call answered, only to get my call back a day or two later.
in fairness, post covid had a lot of skilled support positions difficult to fill as many people had made enough on covid vacation that they drug their feet going back to work, especially for companies that wanted their workers back in the office and not "working' from home.
RE: customer service - JR44 - 12-01-2025
Unfortunately, companies are having no choice, but to cut back leaving those who are left with doing more and in some cases handling unreasonable workloads and putting them into losing positions. Long wait times and less services due to cutbacks result in these customer service reps dealing with irate customers all day long so by the time they get to you, they have had to deal with such an overload of negativity that their level of patience and good will have worn thin. While my first reaction is to give them an ear full, I try to take a step back and empathize with their situation (doesn't always work that way!).