Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now
by mikestew on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:11PM
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Every 30-60 seconds the music stops and a voice repeats the BS...
...at four times the volume of the hold music, so you can't just set volume and forget it. And when a human comes on, that will be attenuated at least 10dB from what the hold music was.
I'd greatly prefer if they just immediately started listing off menu options.
Also a variant on #1 that drives me batty is when they use that in the "hold music". Every 30-60 seconds the music stops and a voice repeats the BS about how you can find what you need online. It's a tease, you think your call was finally answered, and it rubs salt in wound by advertising something that clearly failed in it's task.