real live person

There are important things I need to talk to PEOPLE about in some places I deal with, and you only get the automated these days. The automated don't cut it. Request is that I get A REAL LIVE PERSON, like in the good old days.Like the Gospel song,give me that old time religion. Well give me that...

Something I hope would be reversed, and I'm sure many have gone through this--when you call a company, to [make a payment, straighten out something, get information, etc.} practically all the time you get a recording and it seems most of the time with the recording, they ask for information...