#PhoneTrees
you cant even ask eb games if they have battletoads anymore cuz of fascist phonetrees
September 24, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I was a switchboard/PBX operator in the 80’s, we were replaced by phonetrees, I suspect AI will be much the same. Everyone screaming REPRESENITIVE! After being lost.
June 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bah :( - I'm sorry. I hate phonetrees like that.

It used to be you could hit the 0 and get through to an operator or some such, though I don't know whether that still works. (Might be worth a try, at least!)

*sends phonetree pruning sheers*
September 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
plodding through 4 min of phonetrees w/ my bankk to find out their hrs changed and they’re not open. 4 fucking minutes
July 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m doing some brief info sessions for people to start 🧊 awareness and this little group of upstate NY resistlib moms I just had are now making zines and phonetrees and gonna talk to local businesses. They were so earnest and so mad. It’s out there; it’s happening.
June 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Just keep honking your horn and screaming "HUMAN. HUMAN. HUMAN. PUT ME ON WITH A HUMAN." like you do phonetrees. Works everytime.
July 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is something bilingual+ people could organize around for their communities. Posts, feeds, phonetrees to reach who the admin is working to cut off.
The National Weather Service is no longer providing language translations of its products, a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather.
National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers
Not being able to read urgent weather alerts could be a matter of life or death, a researcher said.
nbcnews.to
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM