What is something that is automated that shouldn't be? What is something that isn't that should be?

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OMG…those DAMN automated answering devises that companies have. Push this…push that. Makes me boiling mad. Put a human being on the end of that phone!!! Make it that we can talk to a person & give people jobs.

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