You can't win these days, you either hit an automated thing of some sort (chatbot or otherwise) or you hit something even worse - the Indian or Filipino call ce

You can't win these days, you either hit an automated thing of some sort (chatbot or otherwise) or you hit something even worse - the Indian or Filipino call center. It's like a chatbot that doesn't comprehend ANY English, is impossible to hear or understand, and that transfers you to another equally useless chatbot or just leaves you in silence every few minutes. I'll happily pay extra to be able to call and speak to a normal person who's fluent in my language. In fact I go out of my to avoid companies that don't meet that criteria when it comes to important stuff like power, phones etc. Bonus points if they have a physical storefront of some sort that I can actually walk into.