I have one rule when it comes to these things. Play dumb. Don't try to be smart. It's remarkable how the system detects people trying to be smart and conside

I have one rule when it comes to these things. Play dumb. Don't try to be smart. It's remarkable how the system detects people trying to be smart and considers it abuse and deals with it using high latency. I found any number of people I worked with were much more productive (car repair, internet service, insurance) if I avoided any speculation about what the problem was, or what the solution could be. Like other folks in this thread, I identify as mildly autistic, and dealing with normies in the service industry took a lot of retraining my mental model of how things work.