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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Remember the olden days, when humans used to answer the phone?

Did you know that if the Centrelink Child Care assistance talkbot enrages you sufficiently that you tell it to get fucked, it replies "I think you said goodbye. Is that correct?"

136150 if you don't believe me. Their website, btw, is even worse. If a person with two university degrees and a website can't negotiate it, I don't think it's good enough. Fortunately if you do manage to get through to a human, they are always helpful and polite.

I was ringing them because they sent us a letter saying "here's what we estimate for your income next year, answer us to change it or do nothing if you agree with us". It was more or less right so we did nothing - and then got a scary letter to the effect that we hadn't answered them, so they might take our benefit away, BOOGOODA BOOGOODA!

Perhaps it's best not to try to interact with these people when you've got the flu. I'm giving in and going to bed with some lemon tea.