What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

[shrdlu at deaddrop.org (Etaoin Shrdlu)]

Skywing wrote:

> I find those speech recognition menus quite annoying.  American
> Airlines has one that's just not good enough over a lower bitrate
> cell voice link in a crowded situation when you're trying to
> determine what's the deal with cancelled flights or whatnot along
> with everyone else in the plane.  Always have to waste a minute for
> it to decide that it's going to punt to a real person.  It would be
> nice if there was a way to bypass it.

say "agent" and keep repeating that word until it understands you. That 
will bypass the menus, and take you to a person.

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