{"id":964,"date":"2010-06-22T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-06-22T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:00:04","slug":"voicerail-please-listen-carefully-as-our-menu-has-recently-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Voicerail: Please listen carefully as our menu has recently changed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> v.<\/em> To call a phone “help line” and spend 45 minutes pushing buttons and screaming at dumb voice-recognition system, before being automatically disconnected. n.<\/em> A push-button or voice-activated phone menu system designed to irritate those who use it. <\/p>\n

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VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n

Voicerail<\/strong>: \/voyse rayl<\/em>\/ 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:<\/em> 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:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n

Helpwhine<\/strong>: \/helpw\u00c4\u00abn<\/em>\/ 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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. \u00e2\u20ac\u009dYour Call is very important to… click\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Etymology:<\/em> help (assist) + whine (a feeble or petulant complaint) Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Helpwhine:<\/strong><\/p>\n

catgrin<\/a><\/strong>, 2010-06-21: 05:49:00<\/em>
Dead on!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Menuseless<\/strong>: \/menn ewe sssslehsssssss<\/em>\/ 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:<\/em> menu useless Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

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Be Creative, <\/p>\n

James<\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading Voicerail: Please listen carefully as our menu has recently changed…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}