Automated Voicemail: Talk To A Human

Flabbergasted is a nice term to use to describe the feeling you get as you're being held hostage to a companies' automated voicemail. Public Utilities and mega corporations are no longer the only ones firing humans and employing these obnoxious systems. That's where the Gethuman 500 Database comes to play. It's an indispensable listing of major companies who have this crappy system and how you can circumvent these and go directly to a live human being. You see, the gethuman standard is a specification for how customer service phone systems and support should work. Wishful thinking perhaps. In the meantime, in addition to their 500, they also have some basic tips here.