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The worst kind are phone bots that when they fail at the speech reckognition game just hang up, or enter into question loop.

To beat the Vodafone one in Germany you have to speak random baby like gibberish until it finally decides to actually give you a human, but this is a matter of luck, as it can hangup instead.

You can imagine how fun it is to deal with Vodafone helpdesk.

Switching operator won't change much, as everyone uses the same toys.

I beat the USCIS one recently out of sheer luck. He understood my poor attempts at saying « reschedule » as « you have a home bounds request » and I was connected with a agent the second after.

I have no idea what is a home bound request but I will now say that.

You can cuss as well, as they are designed to flag inappropriate language.

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