7 points

*less than

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Figure of speech. “More than useless” as in “useless would not be enough of a term to use to describe you.”

Have you not heard that before? There’s even a song with that title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdDNBQ9bJU

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4 points

Parent commenter is not even wrong.

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10 points

These chat bots only have a limited pool of responses, to prevent them saying weird shit. They’re just looking for certain key words or things closely related to their key words that direct them to specific lines.

Company I work at has a very similar one. And it’s not likely checking to see if there’s anybody working the queue before it asks if you want a live human

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You would think “why is my shipment on hold” would be a key phrase they would look for. And then just show me the reason. Since it didn’t say in the email they sent or the tracking info.

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I wonder if it’s that they didn’t give it option to put you in some queue for later contact rather than the AI being bad there.

The customer service is definitely ass. That final response is either a whiff when guaging sentiment or super arrogant.

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No, it turns out their customer service office doesn’t open until 10 am Arizona time. Which is 5 1/2 hours from now.

So it was really helpful of them to send me an information-free notice at like 11 pm (I was already asleep) letting me know my package was on hold and giving me no further information no matter how deep into the tracking I went.

And if I do the tracking by phone, they tell me it will be delivered today.

Honestly, even though it’s a 90-minute drive, the place where the package is located is open at 10 am and it’s important enough to me that I’m just going to drive over there.

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5 points

Yeah, that whole experience is terrible. I tend to go to bed early most of the year in Japan time so, especially if it’s some US or European company, I can relate to the hatred of useless late-night notifications. Best of luck!

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2 points

Thanks!

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9 points

I had one bot transfer me to another on fedex customer line. The second bot told me to use a chatbot on the site.

Future is awesome.

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15 points

the “u” in AI stands for useful ;-)

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6 points

Artificial unIntelligence

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1 point

maybe “A.S.”? artificial stupidity? ;+)

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