Telling us that an issue exists does not equate to giving us information about how it is affecting you and what exactly is going wrong. Let's not assume I know everything about your customer history :)

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Exactly!! They think we can automatically identify the cause of their problem. We want as much information as possible so that we can provide quality service.

RIGHT?! Want to cut down resolve time? Give me something to go on from the start!

Yeah the amount of people who can't describe a problem or what they did leading up to it is only matched by the amount who cause those problems themselves. People message us in Slack “I can’t log in, fix it.” My first reply is asking for errors or screenshots or anything to help with my diagnostics. Heck, even what site within our environments since we have so many? Like, help me help you.

For me it's even worse when it’s other techs who do this. I understand when customers don’t know what details to provide, but if you’re a lower-level tech asking a higher tech or engineer for help, don’t make them drag those details out of you. Also, don’t just rely on the info provided by the customer in the ticket, and don’t assume the tech before you did their due diligence. It might be something easy that has just been explained poorly. I think this applies generally.

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