Press Zero for Nobody

Press Zero for Nobody

Chatbots, Call Loops, and the Fight to Reach a Real Person

Somewhere behind the chatbot, the menu, and the hold music, there used to be a person. On the systematic removal of human contact from the institutions that serve us.

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