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The original was posted on /r/lifeprotips by /u/sawaflyingsaucer on 2024-04-02 16:54:02.

You know those annoying automated systems; “Press 1 for this, Press 2 for this, Press 3 for this…”

They suck, especially once you start getting into submenus and just want to talk to a person. They can be tricked though.

This has worked like 90% of the time for me.

Whenever you get one of those automated systems and it starts listing choices, just quickly type in a random string of numbers. “3545325” for example. It will generally tell you it does not understand, and start going to the menu again. So do the same thing again, and then again. Normally after you do this 3 or 4 times it’ll simply give up and say; “Please hold while we connect you with a representative”. Thus you can get past 10 mins of menus and at least reach a person who will direct you quicker. It may not work on every system but like I said it’s worked way more times than not.