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Tag: human service reps

  • Prof Patty
  • April 30, 2025April 30, 2025

How to Get a Real Person on the Line in Customer Service

Have you ever tried to get a live person on the phone when you needed customer service? It seems almost impossible, especially in these days of AI. Here is a list of numbers for cable, tech, reta

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  • Kintsugi
  • February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

Secret Ways to Reach an Actual Person in Customer Service

By Jeff Somers Your chances of customer service success increase dramatically when you get a human being on the line. The automated options often aren’t flexible enough to cov

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NY Times

  • Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal.
  • Your Gift Dilemmas, Solved
  • Judge Stalls Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictment
  • Hong Kong Holds Vote as Officials Move Against ‘Anti-China’ Elements
  • Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy

NPR

  • Elephant seals remember their enemies
  • This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
  • Your glitchy video calls may make people mistrust you
  • What do birds think of forest management?
  • A bright spot for turtles: Olive ridleys are recovering in India, but still at risk

The Progressive

  • The Education Experiment Gone Wrong
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide is Wrong
  • Trump’s War on ‘Narcoterrorism’ Is a Smokescreen
  • In ‘Wicked,’ and in Life, Politics Is Messy Business
  • A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools

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  • What is the difference between acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin?

FactCheck.org

  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information
  • Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth
  • Examining Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Trafficking Drugs to U.S.
  • Unpacking the FDA’s Black Friday Vaccine Memo
  • Q&A on Vetting of Accused National Guard Shooter

Snopes.com

  • Rumor claims California law requires kids up to 16 to use booster seats. That's mostly false
  • Pete Hegseth's tattoos have raised eyebrows. Here's what we know about their meaning
  • Did Scotland accidentally approve initiative letting people go topless in public?
  • 13 rumors about Rep. Rashida Tlaib, fact-checked
  • Watch out for fake photo of Melania Trump kissing Epstein on cheek

Tradeoffs

  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
  • One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
  • Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
  • The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder

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