Thursday, November 24, 2005

Looking for a human? This idea rocks.

Paul over at the First Amendment Forum (at Delphi Forums) posted this link one day...


It lists the specific sequences of numbers to push to get past the "telephonic gatekeepers" and neverending recorded messages at numerous businesses and government telephone exchanges in order to make direct contact with a real human being. Saves time. Saves a helluva lot of frustration. A stupendous idea to collate all this info together.

Just adding my own .02 in here: Some telephone exchanges will do that connect directly to a human thing if you trick the exchange into thinking you only have a rotary dial phone and cannot use a touchpad or make touch tones. You do that by never pushing another button again as long as you are on their line. You know how it gives you a recorded menu of numbers you can push? DON'T PUSH ANY. The exchange usually cannot interpret "no response" so it sends you to a human.

Usually. Once in a great while, it might think no one is there and it will disconnect. Trial and error, baby.

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