Irritating Automated Telephone Systems

I’ve been in a pissed off mood of late. This morning I called UOB bank’s credit card hotline to enquire about a credit card application. I just wanted to find out the status and I had to go through something like 20 menus of irritating automated voices. I think they use the same woman for every voice automation system there is because I recognize her on all of the systems, including singtel’s (which has to be the most retarded system ever, even worse than uob). Her voice is incredibly irritating. Slow, fake and with tinges of forced cheeriness. So finally after about 5 mins of pressing 1′s, 0′s and other assorted numbers, # keys, IC numbers, my phone number, etc I get a system response saying, “Thank you, we will get back to you in THREE DAYS”. WTF. Three days. I did’nt even get to speak to a human for the entire phonecall. What a crappy 1800 number.