LETTER: Banks — where customers come to die
They can take a lesson from the tax office about how to handle a phone query efficiently
Hats off to Mike Muller for highlighting his problems with service at his bank (“Banks need more workers”, October 1). Anyone who has tried to contact his or her bank will confirm that the caller will be subjected to an array of options and eventually offered the option to speak to an operator.
Generally the reason a person calls the bank is to speak to an operator, yet this option is greeted with the announcement of the system experiencing a high level of calls and the caller is invited to deal with the problem online. Then follows either a litany of bank service adverts or inappropriate music, while the caller is urged to be patient and reassured that their call is important. This can take up 20 minutes...
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