[Please feel free to link up any helpful tips! If you've run out of ideas, you can join in the suggested theme the first Wed. of each month. Today's theme is sharing one of your greatest tips. Link up old or new tips!]
If I added up all the hours I’ve waited for a real, live, breathing person to answer my customer service phone calls, lo, they would be many.
And if I could recapture all those lost hours, my house would probably be clean.Or my laundry would be done.
Okay, maybe I’d just have some bonus Twitter time.
The point is, I wouldn’t have an ear shaped like a cauliflower.
Recently, I discovered a very helpful website called Get Human.
And well, just like the name, the promise of speaking to a human on the phone is real. I can feel the tears welling up even now.
This comprehensive site has hundreds of phone numbers that help you bypass all the waiting and phone holding (not to mention the elevator music) with some helpful shortcuts.It almost makes me long for an excuse to speak with a customer service rep.
Almost.
Get Human, it works for me!
The first linky was corrupted-sorry everyone will have to reenter links!
Thanks for the tip! I will be bookmarking that site.
What?!? You don’t like being on hold forever and then when you finally get through they disconnect. I just don’t understand why you don’t appreciate that!
Just thinking about it makes me want chocolate.
Blessings to you,
Lana @ ilovemy5kids
Not THAT’s a really great tip! I’m going to bookmark it for sure.
Linking up today after a long WFMW hiatus.. I think my tip well dried up.. but I’ve been back in my groove lately. =)
Headset and cell phone save me on those calls. At least I can walk around cleaning the house while I listen to the “fantastic” music. I will bookmark the site for future use. Thanks.
What an excellent site you’ve shared!
Thanks for always hosting!
I’ll have to keep that in mind…
{Whoever came up with that? Genius!!}
Do you know about lucyphone.com??? You use it to look up customer service phone numbers and actually place a phone call to the selected phone number online. The Lucyphone site then actually waits on hold FOR YOU. Then when someone picks up, it calls your house and connects you. Cool, right? Here’s a write up that myphonescout.com did on it…it has a vimeo that explains it also: http://www.myphonescout.com/2010/06/tired-of-waiting-on-hold/
Thank you for all you do in hosting this each week. Always so many great tips. And, you never cease to amaze me with all the tips that you bring to this forum each week.
Thank you!
~Erin
Seriously? That’s awesome! Thanks for the link!
Thanks for the Get Human tip. What a time saver! Thanks for hosting the link up. This week I’m sharing a tip about joining a CSA.
What a handy site. Thanks!
Now THAT is brilliant!
I’m linked up again. Thanks so much for hosting this event each week. I’ve learned alot and gained readership in the process.
Bookmarked that site. Thanks! Also enjoyed relinking my tips for nursing/pumping moms. Hope my info helps someone.
I love that site!!!
Thanks for your effort with pulling together these useful tips!
Alex
Hi Kristen! What a great bunch of tips! I find it so interesting that we are all moms and running households and can still find so many different ways to do things! I am linking up my baby steps to a rockin life that has one of my favorite tips. If you need to get things done. Turn on the music! All the best, Alex