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Re:Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human” by tedunangst on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:39AM (#30790480)
Supporting evidence: you could hire a virtual (human) assistant to drive the ticket email process forward for you. "Nobody" does.
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Re:Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human” by anonymoushn on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:16AM (#30791074)
I can't speak for everybody, but the main reason I don't do this is that I've done it and it created additional work rather than saving any.
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Re:Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human” by tedunangst on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:41PM (#30793094)
Fair, though I wonder if that's indicative of the problem not being as simple as just explain it to a human.
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Re:Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human” by FabHK on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:06PM (#30791809)
That has been my experience as well, by and large. The "virtual assistant" thing propagated by the 4-hour work week crowd only works under very specific circumstances.
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