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soaper410 t1_jdpc0ac wrote

Also I’d you have a strong southern accent (American) the machine won’t understand why you are saying and transfer you much faster. I assume this is also true with other strong accents.

Source: Me.

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TriggerEatsTheWolf t1_jdpb6vz wrote

You could look into being an English tutor. Italki, for example, let's you set your own schedule and rate. You communicate via Skype with people and money is handled through the website. With that, people have to choose you from the available pool. There's also other similar ones, where you can log in and you get in a queue that fires customers in turn. You get your student and do conversation practice or work on whatever they ask and then after you wait for your next one. I believe they pay 8-10 usd per hour.

If you have some area of expertise you might could do consulting online. There's also sites where you can build an online educational course and people can purchase your lessons.

There's social media management jobs, data entry ...

You really just need to search job boards and blogs and such and should be able to find something.

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BigSpoonFullOfSnark OP t1_jdpb0gu wrote

If there is a person they can transfer you to, they usually will. Be polite and explain you're getting nowhere with the automated system.

They have no incentive to interrogate you. It's in their best interest to transfer you as quickly as possible and not waste time.

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Yetis-unicorn t1_jdparhx wrote

Point of action stations. Writing checklists at different stations in the house. For instance things you need to have put away before exiting the kitchen, bathroom etc…. I also lay out my cloths that I’ll need for the next day, prepack everything that I can for my morning and attach a post it note on my bag with a check list for the things I can’t prepack. For example, my keys, papers, iPad, and water bottle all get packed the night before. I write a note to remind me to get my lunch out of the fridge and my coffee thermos and put that note on my bag so I’ll have the reminder in the morning. I have adhd so all these tricks to set things up in advance are crucial to me.

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fiddlenutz t1_jdp8ars wrote

This is how it works. They need to send you to the retention team and not sales.

Horrible LPT.

You really want to speak with someone. Don’t say a word in the voice prompts. It will transfer you to a live person usually.

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4rp4n3t t1_jdp6uxl wrote

> You will immediately be transferred to a real person

And that person will be a sales person, and nine times out of 10, as soon as they discover you're not trying to buy anything, they'll just loop you back in to the original queue.

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dfreinc t1_jdp6cpw wrote

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RussellZoloft t1_jdp5vvb wrote

Not necessarily. If you say something unrelated to what you actually need, you may be transferred to someone who can't help you, and then, they will have to transfer you to the correct queue, essentially slowing down you getting help.

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BigSpoonFullOfSnark OP t1_jdp5av9 wrote

I have found this is not the case. Customers who are angry and yelling random swears are more likely to get what they want from customer service.

The automated menus are designed to make sure unsatisfied customers never reach another human being in the organization.

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keepthetips t1_jdp3s73 wrote

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MackeyH t1_jdp2voo wrote

I used to know a really good method, but … Anyway you have to make a conscious effort to memorize these things. Some people do this automatically. I’d imagine that you have a hard time remembering directions too. I have the same issue. Often, it’s just that you are preoccupied with other things. Again, when you set your keys down look at them and say out loud “my keys are on the table” or wherever. You probably forget where you parked your car too. Do the same. Say it out loud “row 7” or whatever. The worst thing for your memory is to stress about your memory. Now, what was your question again?

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