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Why do complaints keep rising while the product improves?
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Why do complaints keep rising while the product improves?

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CLUSTER 1
Agents who take the time to fix a problem properly miss their numbers
5 votesdiscuss
Customers repeat their problem to every person they are passed to
Meaning the trend this year, not one bad week.
11 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 2
New agents take live tickets after three days of training
I mean this shows up in the tags every month.
0 votesdiscuss
Agents are measured on tickets closed per hour
0 votes
↳ nominated for a seat: https://example.org/ops-incident-review.pdf could not read it (HTTPError) 1 of 2 behind it
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CLUSTER 3
Complaints about one feature spike after every release
12 votesdiscuss
Most complaints are about waiting, not about the answer
I mean this shows up in the tags every month.
15 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 4
Nobody from product reads the ticket tags
7 votesdiscuss
There is no way to tell the product team what customers are asking for
0 votesdiscuss
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Managers see the dashboard, agents see the queue, nobody sees the customer
3 votesdiscuss
Promotions promise things support has not been told about
Meaning the trend this year, not one bad week.
1 votesdiscuss
Outages are not announced, so support finds out from customers
1 votesdiscuss
The knowledge base is written by people who have never taken a call
Complaints are counted only when someone uses the word complaint
I mean this shows up in the tags every month.
6 votesdiscuss
Refund policy is different on the website, in the app and in the script
2 votesdiscuss
A customer who complains twice gets the same first reply both times
13 votesdiscuss
The chat bot deflects the easy questions and mangles the hard ones
Angry customers are moved to the back of the queue by the priority rules
I mean this shows up in the tags every month.
6 votesdiscuss
Agents cannot issue a refund without a manager, and the manager is in meetings
Scope: the support desk, not the whole company.
4 votesdiscuss
Billing changes are announced to customers after they hit the invoice
Meaning the trend this year, not one bad week.
1 votesdiscuss
Staffing is planned on last year's volume
1 votesdiscuss
Survey requests go out before the problem is solved
13 votesdiscuss
The best agents leave within a year
Scope: the support desk, not the whole company.
4 votesdiscuss
The phone line closes at five and the emails start at five past
4 votesdiscuss
Ticket categories were set up years ago and nothing fits them now
Scope: the support desk, not the whole company.
2 votesdiscuss
Escalations go to a team that does not read the ticket history
6 votesdiscuss
The same question is answered a hundred times because the help page is wrong
Meaning the trend this year, not one bad week.
5 votesdiscuss
Templates make every reply sound like nobody read the message
Scope: the support desk, not the whole company.
9 votesdiscuss