Phone queue message said CSC was over-busy - on a Saturday afternoon?
Hi there.
I rang the CSC this afternoon, and had to wait for over 3 minutes for tech support (Saturday 18th Feb, around 4pm, on behalf of account username "braunstone"). The call centre stats at the time said the average wait was only a minute and a half, and the max wait was 2 minutes. This seemed a bit strange.
But most strangely, the message I got while waiting said the CSC was experiencing unusually high call volumes (or something similar - can't remember the exact words) and so I should expect a longer wait than usual. Had someone forgotten to change the message over? The CSC stats graph doesn't show particularly high call volumes at that time on a Saturday.
Any ideas what was going on?
I rang the CSC this afternoon, and had to wait for over 3 minutes for tech support (Saturday 18th Feb, around 4pm, on behalf of account username "braunstone"). The call centre stats at the time said the average wait was only a minute and a half, and the max wait was 2 minutes. This seemed a bit strange.
But most strangely, the message I got while waiting said the CSC was experiencing unusually high call volumes (or something similar - can't remember the exact words) and so I should expect a longer wait than usual. Had someone forgotten to change the message over? The CSC stats graph doesn't show particularly high call volumes at that time on a Saturday.
Any ideas what was going on?
Quote I *think* the we are very busy message is a manual switch on / off
I also thought this.
Quote Residential Call statistics (updated every 30 minutes)
Quite possible people called, then hungup due to the busy message to try again later. Also, the MAX wait time is the person who took the longest to get to the front of the queue... When they dialled there may have been 100 people in the queue, when you dialled only 10, so it would of taken the CSC staff less time to get to you, than to them. If this makes sense?
I'm sure a member of Digicare will be over to clear this up though
Regards
Quote is dvorak right?
Yes he is. Agreed, it just sounds like someone forgot to turn the message off, sorry for any confusion.
And how is it possible that the call centre stats, including the maximum wait time, were lower than the length of time I waited on the phone?
One possibility is that you could have been unlucky and actually been the person waiting the longest.
