Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

Get Human Please

21 01 2007

I am sure many of you have called customer service for all kind of reason but we all hate automated machine. It can be painful sometime.

In my personal experience, I’ve called many different companies in the past such as Comcast, Dell, Time Warner Cable, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. It was nothing but long hours and frustrated. I try to use Live Chat online but not every companies have one.

I discovered this website called GetHuman.com – it listed many companies with telephone number and description how to get human fast. Think of it as shortcut.

For example: Ford - 800â€‘392â€‘3673: Press 0; at prompt press 0; at prompt press 0; at prompt press 1; at prompt press 0.

Get Human Example

I figure it is perfect solution for deaf community who call heavily thru relay service.

Check it out! Go to http://gethuman.com/

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Date : 21 January 2007
Categories : Internet, Relay Service, deaf community

6 responses to “Get Human Please”

22 01 2007: Mookie (09:09:08) :

Hello Grant,

Cool…I am gonna to test on small Internet busienss, Crazy Technologies, Inc., via the landphone. Wait a minute…Crazy Tech does not have phone number. I am gonna to grade you “C”.
I would provide good grade, such as “B”, if Crazy Tecy contact list has videophone numbers…

Thanks for the link…
22 01 2007: Trudy (09:30:10) :

That’s why I *love* Crazy Tech - because the customer service is top-notch and I don’t have to deal with delays or a lot of “non-human” contact.
22 01 2007: Karen (09:40:27) :

Great tip, thanks!
23 01 2007: Jon (02:05:47) :

Good finding, Grant. Where did you get that information from? LifeHackeR?
23 01 2007: Grant W Laird Jr (03:13:44) :

Lifehacker.com is wonderful place to check regularly!!
15 02 2007: Dave (09:05:44) :

There is also ivrhacks which is a database of US, UK, Australian and Canadian shortcuts to company IVR systems.

Cool Quote

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anwyay. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness. people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may be never enough. Give your best anyway. For you, in the end, it is between you and yourself. It never was between you and them anyway.