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Whenever I am on hold with some sort of help desk or call center and the hold music is being interrupted every 15-30 seconds with an automated “We appreciate your patience, a representative will be with you shortly” message, it’s a dead giveaway that someone has done a localized optimization to hit their metric without thinking through the consequences.

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