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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

Honestly it's not that much worse than being forwarded off to India where someone's getting paid $0.10 an hour to read off a flow chart to me. If your 24-hour service line doesn't have an actual engineer available after the flow chart It's not meaningfully different than the AI.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Yep. I hate having to phone support lines to be told to run basic troubleshooting like turning something off and on again when that's the first thing that I'll try.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Keep in mind that the service lines also deal with customers who can’t distinguish a CPU from a modem from a monitor. Hence the basic troubleshooting in the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I know they have to follow their script, so I just play along. And honestly, it’s not as if I’ve never made a stupid mistake before, like accidentally leaving something unplugged.

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