GetHuman Voice Mail Jail Breakout
Well at last enough people are fed-up over the inane voice mail hell machines that some are taking action.
- Press 1 to report an alien abduction
- Press 2 to find out why your checks are bouncing
- Press 3 to report your neighbor to Homeland Insecurity
- …
- Press 9 to hear this list over, and over, and over
Little wonder that people are exasperated, these things never have the option you need, and when you do choose something the next list is even less relevant. By the time you get to the 32nd level of choice selection you are either told that you called the wrong number to begin with, and they provide that number again and say you should have used it; or you are graced with a half hour of elevator music before the line goes dead (the latter, of course, is always the case if you call long-distance).
So in protest the GetHuman people have posted a list of tricks that will cause many of the voice mail systems to turn you over to a real operator. Of course, they won’t work if there are no real operators, as is often the case.
In case you need them, here are two of the most reliable options: 1) simply do nothing — make believe you have a dial-tone phone and can’t press a button ’cause you got a dial. If that doesn’t work — the initial choices keep repeating indefinitely — 2) try pressing zero for every response. Write those on the back of your Get Out of Jail Free card. Good Luck.