A loop is a loop is a loop

IVR System: What is your destination?
Me: San Diego
IVR System: I heard Binghampton, is that correct?

What. The. Hell. IVR's suck.

*IVR: Interactive Voice Response. Anytime you call the bank, airline, phone company, utility, etc and get send through their phone tree, it's an IVR.

Listening to: Firedome - Reeves Gabrels

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Posted on May 15, 2008 2 Comments
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Your wife, Mutha Mae commented, on May 15, 2008 at 10:42 a.m.:

Yeah I get a kick out of recording the VOs for those things. As I'm reading the list of locations, I just know someone will one day hear them and yell at my pre recorded voice.

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Jack commented, on May 15, 2008 at 4:51 p.m.:

Not sure if my IM about this went through yesterday, but NPR did a "skit" about Amtrak's Julie and an airline's Tom IVR systems, having a conversation, for Valentine's Day back in 2002:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

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