Fane

I found my new callingโ€ฆ I want to destroy every automated support line in existence.

I can no longer remember which support line it was (maybe HP?) but years ago when I had to call it frequently, I figured out that if you used enough profanity at the otherwise-arduously-long prompts and hold queue, the cursing would short-circuit all that and quickly get you to a real person who could assist you.

So when I called I would robotically intone, โ€œFuckโ€ฆshitโ€ฆbitchโ€ฆfuckโ€ฆshitโ€ฆbitchโ€ until it transferred me to a human. One time my boss walked by and heard me doing this and stopped to watch. She was very chill and asked me after, โ€œWhat was that about?โ€ I said I found out that profanity caused a quick transfer to an actual rep and otherwise Iโ€™d be waiting perhaps hours.

So the rest of my team started doing the โ€œFuckโ€ฆshitโ€ฆbitchโ€ litany when they called the support line. (Pretty sure it was HP, as we had tons of HP servers so were calling often. This was in 2002 or so.)

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