Stop with the "music" already!

07/18/06

Permalink 01:13:27 am, by odessa Email , 147 words, 39 views   English (US)
Categories: Things that make me go "hmmm"

Stop with the "music" already!

I had to call a billing department. They want me to give them money. I get put on hold. Not just any hold, this was the hold from hell. They had their announcement on continuous loop. "We appreciate you patience, we'll be with you shortly" BS. Followed by a very enthusiastic, bit too loud, jazz piano sniplet of music. Loop had to be max 1 min long. By the 8th time I wanted to smash the piano. Turn it down, make it longer, anything! But listening to that sniplet again and again and again made me want to scream. Then the kicker. Phone starts ringing, I'm like, here we go. . . . instead I get another message "Sorry we have more calls than our staff can handle, please leave a message." Why no give me that proclaimation 9 min earlier??? Before I got irritated with the stupid looping piano music?? ARRGG!

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Comment from: u235 [Member] Email
Letter bomb with payment. It's the only solution.

Seriously tho, I've been on hold with fucking awful music and when I've gotten to speak to someone I told them that the music was enough to make someone suicide. Personally I'm not offended by ~complete silence~ punctuated by the occaisional "yeah, we know you're still on hold" message.

Save me the jazz, country or fucking barry manilow please.
PermalinkPermalink 07/18/06 @ 10:21
Comment from: odessa [Member] Email
I didn't care for the musical selection, but I less upset with the music selection than the fact that it was such a small segment, repeated and played so loudly.
PermalinkPermalink 07/19/06 @ 18:18
Comment from: strobe [Visitor]
I had that recently with Qwest. Some bad piano/jazz diddy that admittedly had a good melody and a few moments, but were ruined by the random repeats, the moments (most of it) where it was so loud it distorted badly, and a few places that had not just one or two, but a series of skips. I was actually beginning to laugh as I listened to it...and told the rep when I finally got through, such. :)
PermalinkPermalink 07/19/06 @ 22:57

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