“This is a very useful little tip from a Redditor: if you are lost somewhere in the menu hell of an automated telephone system a few well dropped profanities will lead to the almost immediate attention of a live human being,” Tim Worstall reports for Forbes.
It turns out that the automated system that Apple uses (but isn’t limited to just this company) is programmed to listen for signs of distress. If that additional menu option is one too many and you unleash a volley of terse language down the phone, it will immediately connect you with a real person.
Worstall reports, “There is one Redditor who says that any nonsensical world will do: he uses banana.”
Read more in the full article here.