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I would send them an email at the address listed in their HN profile (it's there, I checked). I would NOT respond to a complaint like this on Hacker News with
by chernevik 5y ago
I would send them an email at the address listed in their HN profile (it's there, I checked). I would NOT respond to a complaint like this on Hacker News with some performative demonstration of concern.
I would ask my VP for customer service to explain the state of the operation and why this case is such a mess. Who knows, maybe they aren't getting adequate resources or support. I'd do a deep dive:
- What are our average call hold times? standard deviations? what is our response to outliers?
- How do we QC these calls?
- When we promise to contact a customer, what is our average response time? standard deviations? what is our response to outliers?
- How do we QC the quality of those responses?
- What are our escalation procedures? How often / effectively are they invoked?
- What is our track record with credit bureau reports -- how often are they challenged? what is the outcome of those challenges?
- What is our plan for customer service? How do we know it is properly resourced?
I'd expect answers to these questions in a day or so, if they can't answer these quickly they aren't the right person.
I would be preparing to tell my board, subject to the answers received above, that we have serious problems in customer support, we need new leadership/strategy there, and this might be expensive.
These are the guesses of a zero-management experience dude. I'm sure a real CEO would have a better list -- but they should be doing something serious about problems that are clearly systematic.
- tehlike 5y agoSomething can be both performative, and honest at the same time. He probably got notified by someone in the company that this is getting attention, he felt responsible so he responded AND got people to pull numbers for example.