DEFINITION: v. To call a phone “help line” and spend 45 minutes pushing buttons and screaming at dumb voice-recognition system, before being automatically disconnected. n. A push-button or voice-activated phone menu system designed to irritate those who use it.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Voicerail: /voyse rayl/ The worst offenders are the ones supposedly out there helping you. Places like government agencies, city services, big corporations,banks… virtually any company with more than 2 people working in it. Roy was like many frustrated people. His anger and fury were incensed even further by having to go through a voicemail system. Or as he called it, a voicerail system. The more menu options he had to go through, the more irate he became. He’d waste an hour tip-toeing through all these numbers only to have to contact “0” to speak to a live human, because none of these options concerned his query. Just as he was about to shoot his phone with his Smith & Wesson, he was told the correct transit number to take and when it would depart…sometimes it’s quicker just to stand at the stop and wait an hour! Etymology: Voice Mail (a computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network) & Rail (spread negative information about;criticize severely;complain bitterly;rebel against) Created by: Nosila.
Helpwhine: /helpwÄ«n/ Most every company has some version of a helpwhine. If you can push the right buttons, you are allowed to vent your frustrations to somebody who may or may not care what you have to say — somebody who may or may not speak discernible English. This assumes that you are ever able to find that lone human in the maze of options. â€Your Call is very important to… clickâ€. Etymology: help (assist) + whine (a feeble or petulant complaint) Created by: artr.
Comments on Helpwhine:
catgrin, 2010-06-21: 05:49:00
Dead on!
Menuseless: /menn ewe sssslehsssssss/ They found his skeleton still upright in the chair, bony hand still holding the phone from which they disembodied voice of the menuseless called “are you still there?” Etymology: menu useless Created by: galwaywegian.
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