Suggestion given long phone wait times
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 9:38 PM
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Quote from: shutter "press one for a short wait, and two for a bit longer wait..."
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 9:55 PM
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Press 1 for a horribly long wait. Press 2 to be reduced to bones and cobwebs.
Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 9:57 PM
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 9:58 PM
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That is diabolical. The whole point of having different queues for different issues is so that you (eventually) get through to someone who knows what they are talking about.
shutter is right, prioritising isn't really the right word but it also seems shutter's last remark is unfortunately still true.
Not forgetting tonyAtplus's original suggestion - to keep on topic there's no reason why such a system can't work with the different queues for different issues.
I also wonder that whilst we are stuck with the current system (or even if tonyAtplus's system was implemented on each queue), why/if the Customer Support Stats can't show the wait times on each of the queues?
And who altered the programming on that recently? As shutter has already mentioned, how can you have decimal xy of a call waiting? No QA it would seem. And why is the "Longest call waiting now" not being shown? Too embarrassed to show it no doubt
Right now
Quote from: Plusnet Current calls waiting Longest call waiting now Average answer time today
24.24 Currently unavailable 40 minutes and 50 seconds
Come on Plusnet, this HAS to be a joke.
Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:03 PM
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I'm currently on hold. It seems that 30 plusnet minutes are more than 40 real minutes.
Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:17 PM
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:22 PM
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Under Question Handling it this instant it reads "Last updated: July 11, 2014, 11:43 am". That's over 4 days ago!
Translated I think it means that the time being taken to close tickets is so embarrassing that we'll not post an update until we've done something to get it back to a reasonable level.
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:34 PM
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And on the stats figure being an average, why should it not still show the total calls waiting at the current instance? Probably because real figures would be worse. As for showing a decimal, It's still a joke. And in any event the title of the column should have been changed by now if it's an average, but obviously the people that do these web pages can't type corrections.
Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:37 PM
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Quote from: http Customer satisfaction is extremely important to us. That's why we publish these statistics to keep everyone at Plusnet focused on your needs. If we're not meeting our target times, we'll be working hard to make improvements.
PN must have one of the worst wait times of any provider.
PN why are the wait times not coming down still? ( not enough staff?) and what are you doing about it?, as it looks like not a great deal.
IT seems the DCT team is getting more and more stretched , along with the call centre, and the system problems that need fixing just keep piling up.
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:39 PM
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
15-07-2014 10:49 PM
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
16-07-2014 10:31 AM
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Quote from: jelv Something else that is very unimpressive:
Under Question Handling it this instant it reads "Last updated: July 11, 2014, 11:43 am". That's over 4 days ago!
Translated I think it means that the time being taken to close tickets is so embarrassing that we'll not post an update until we've done something to get it back to a reasonable level.
We're updating that now, it should have been done a lot sooner, so, sorry for that.
We really are trying our best to get call volumes down, we're still hiring more people and training people up. I fully appreciate that we've been saying this for some time now, we're still working on it.
Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
16-07-2014 10:39 AM
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Regards
Mike
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
16-07-2014 11:24 AM
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Re: Suggestion given long phone wait times
16-07-2014 1:16 PM
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Any response to the original suggestion. If you implemented such a scheme you could (for most enquiries) have long wait times (within reason), and people would be fine with it. If an enquiry were urgent and the person was prepared to hold, they could even be given priority thus shortening waits for urgent cases.
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