Best advice you can give callers? I'll go first. Kindly read your terms and conditions.

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Take a deep breath and remember that the person answering your call doesn’t make the rules, and they are not the ones caused your poor customer experience

THIS. I can't believe how many people act like the person they're on the phone with is a decision-maker. I always want to be like "Listen lady, I'm just the middle man of a gigantic billion dollar corporation I have ZERO power to change the rules."

Terms and conditions is almost always the problem. Some people for whatever reason believe that they don’t apply to them. The other is they expect to be staff to give what they want whenever they call with no wait ever. When told that would only make costs go up as more staff would be needed they deny this.

When something (or an error) shows up on the screen, actually take time to read. This is especially true with logging into your account/s or trying to update your billing information.

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