
{"id":1407,"date":"2014-02-21T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2014-02-21T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:36:17","slug":"staying-on-hold-why-background-music-is-better-than-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Staying on hold: why background music is better than chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Mail lost my package. Trying to call them, I am waiting on hold for 25 minutes and counting. But that&#8217;s not the most annoying part. The most annoying part is that they use constant chatter about their excellent services instead of background music. A male and a female announcer alternate talking about how priority mail is different from express mail, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If it were background music I could continue working, pretty much ignoring it. When a real person picks up, the rhythm will change, and I will know that I need to talk to them. Replacing background music with chatter, especially when it&#8217;s several people taking turns talking, completely kills this option. I need to constantly pay attention, so I can distinguish a customer service representative from the carousel of alternating announcers. Bad, bad user experience decision. Not to mention that 25 minute waiting time is inhumane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Mail lost my package. Trying to call them, I am waiting on hold for 25 minutes and counting. But that&#8217;s not the most annoying part. The most annoying part <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=1407\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}