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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (10 children)

a key Achilles’ heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ever engage constructively with users the company fucks over. At the time, I dubbed it Google’s “big, faceless, white monolith” problem, because that’s how it appears to many customers.

Hey, sounds like pretty much every corporation in 2023!

I hate so fucking much how little customer service companies are allowed to have.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

"I hate so fucking much how little customer service companies are allowed to have".

It's not a mater of how much customer service they're allowed, rather than how much they choose to have. In most cases they choose to have close to none because it's more profitable for them, so its in the best short term interest of their share holders. And yes, in most corporations, long term is thex quarter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

duh.

the point of saying allowed is that consumers and the market in general should not put up with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Consumers and the market in general won't face the customer service on average. We can't expect the change to come from there.

My comment meant more that they should legally not be allowed to have a customer service that bad. Something like requiring at least X non-outsourced employees working on call centers for every Y customers the company serves. I'm pretty confident nowadays most companies don't even have a single one.

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