Corporations get away with so much putting conflict resolution behind customer service hell.
I don’t blame the workers at all, I’m sure they have “unprecedented call volume” all the time which means short staffed with stressed out people trying their best.
Not gonna lie, when I worked help desk this shit wouldn’t have even raised an eyebrow. When my shift started at 5am, we didn’t give a fuck. So long as you answered the calls and helped the client, the shit you had at your desk didn’t matter.
This is my experience with call centers as well
Lucky all of the ones I worked at had a clean desk policy
They wouldn’t even let me have a pen and paper
We were allowed pens, but the paper was a special color and not allowed to leave the room. Data privacy. But as bothersome as this was, as a customer I’d be delighted to know my privacy is taken so seriously.
I was gonna say the same thing. I got to tier two sprint tech support (which is just tier one with a hold time) and I was always making food in my cubicle. I didn’t eat during lunch, I just did laps around the building to work off all the shit I ate while I was on calls.