Why would a company bother having (really bad elevator type) hold music if it’s going to be crackly and cut out every 2.5 seconds? It doesn’t even sound like a song! It’s just Beeepity boooo siiiiiiilenceeeeeeee beepity boooooo someladytalking UGH it’s worse than the actual crappy music you’re “playing”.—Hold wouldn’t suck so much if you fixed the “music”
This article appears in Apr 1-7, 2010.
The musical call waiting is such a waste of time. Annoying, really. Rarely is the music played even consistent with my musical taste and it is always competing with music that I am already listening to which IS to my taste. Turning off my music is the only (unsatisfactory) option but now I am stuck with the poor musical taste of someone else’s choice. By the time I actually speak to a representative their musical imposition has set a tone that was not even present when I first dialed the number.
The reason the music is there, is so that people don’t think that they’ve been disconnected, hang-up, call again, and mess up the call centres’ stats.
worst bitch ever
Most companies don’t know what their own hold music sounds like because they themselves never actually hear it. Tell them there’s a problem with the music and they might actually do something about it.
There’s probably a number you can call to complain about such things…but you’ll probably get placed on hold.
I’m willing to bet the OP was talking about Bell-Aliant’s hold music. I told them about the issue several times in the last year and the drones don’t really care. However you get to hear a message saying how important the call is and that B-A understands my time is valuable 🙂
well now, spomething i actually hate to, piped in shit. most is so ancient that the dinosuars listened to it when it was old to them. this ranks right up there with that crap shit music(yuk).
MILES!!! did you hear our plaintive bleating for you? welcome back
I’d rather hear the intermittent beep-tone to let me know I haven’t been disconnected, or a brief recoreded statement about how my call is important, there are other options. Anything but imposed music.
Thanks PG…I missed this place. Last time I give up bitching for lent 😛
well, ya know we start to worry about any lunatics that have escaped^^
You got it fizz, what a useless bitch. C’mon OP are you sure a bus driver/waitress/street punk didn’t piss you off too?
LOL….MILES is back! YAY!!!!
Oh dude, you missed some crazy moderator stuff….I thought you were gone for good because of it….glad you are back.
**it is hilarious how excited I am…like an old friend has returned from a far away land (thanks 4 brightening the day (-: )
I knew sticking my finger up my ass and spinning around on my elbow would call you back, Miles – glad to ‘see’ ya, buddy.
My favourite is when you call a telecommunications company and you get the crackly shitty elevator music that you can barely hear. If they can’t get it together, who can?
Dammit TTFN! Now you’ve gone and revealed the summoning spell to all the LTWWB muggles! We can only hope there are no injuries or accidental summoning of some out and out arses!
Oh-oh, Oceanlady – the rocks at Peggy’s Cove have been summoned – they are currently shuffling en masse on Route 333, heading towards Halifax – and are they pissed.
Damn the amateurs!
Ha ha TTFN… coincidentally, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the last little while.
Now I’m hearing a chorus of ‘Whey-O-Whey, Whhhhheeeeyyyyy-OOOhhh’ outside my building – better duck under my desk before they smash their big ol’ rock bellies through the barricades.
Oh, the humanity.
Yikes! Where’s Popeye the Sailorman when you need him?