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Japanese system engineer uses kitty power to keep angry customers from yelling at him
投稿日 2019年10月3日 02:30:29 (ニュース)
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Ingenious idea turns system errors into something to look forward to.
Working in tech support is often a thankless and exhausting job. When someone runs into a problem with their PC, but lacks the skill to fix it themselves, they’re obviously going to feel frustrated, but far too often they take that anger out on the first help desk rep they can get ahold of, as if they themselves were the ones creating the problem, and not trying to fix it.
But rather than fire back with angry words of his own, Japanese system engineer and Twitter user @yamadagal came up with a clever, and cute, way to keep people from barking at him, and the solution is cats.
システムエラー出たとき、何種類かのネコのgif画像をエラー内容に合わせて表示するようにしたんだけど、
問い合わせが基本「猫ちゃんが出てきた」になったし
猫ちゃん見てるからクレームの温度感も温くなったし
こっちもとりあえず「画面にどんな猫ちゃん出てますか?」って聞けばいいし楽
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品川を縦に書くとクラゲ (@yamadagal) September 28, 2019
“I set up our computer system so that when a system error occurs, it displays a cat GIF, with a different cat depending on the classification of error. Since then, when people contact me with a problem, they start with ‘A kitty showed up,’ and since they’re looking at the cat at the time, they’re a lot nicer in the way they communicate and make their complaint.
Plus, I can then respond with ‘What kind of kitty is on your screen?’, which makes the conversation start nice and smoothly.”
It’s actually a brilliant strategy. Not only does looking at a cute cat put people in a good mood, it also gives the error itself a sort of virtual incarnation. With a faceless error message, there’s a tendency to attach responsibility to the first living thing the message leads the user to, i.e. the system engineer trying to help them. @yamadagal’s method, though, makes the cat the bearer of bad news, but who can stay angry at a cat? It’s not like the cat caused the error on purpose, and once the user is in that frame of mind, they’re also less likely to blame the system engineer.
▼ Whatever your technical difficulties are, they’re not this guy’s fault.
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Other Twitter users were impressed by @yamadagal ingenuity, leaving comments like:
“404 cat found.”
“You could use a photo of cats pointing at the system error code and saying ‘Tell the system engineer this number (meow!).”
“When users get upset, they don’t explain their problem clearly, and it takes longer to help them, so this is a genius-level idea.”
A few other Twitter users chimed in to say that a few companies have similar policies, such as Shikoku rail operator Kotoden Group’s dolphin mascot when storms or earthquakes cause train delays and Amazon with photos of dogs when the servers get overworked on Prime Day.
プライムデーはじまったけど重くてまともに買い物できない
この犬の顔腹立つ
#プライムデー https://t.co/IMP4u6TkPR
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ドクガエル (@DOCKGAERU) July 16, 2018
However, a few commenters also pointed out that @yamadagal’s strategy could prove to be too effective, as they wondered if he might start receiving complaints from users whose computers are running fine and are upset about not being visited by the kitties he added to the system. Still, that’s a problem that’d be easy to fix, seeing as how in today’s world, having a working computer means you’ve got instant access to an endless supply of cat content.
Source: Twitter/@yamadagal via Jin
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