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Judgment & ambiguity · When to escalate

A customer complains that a technician who visited their home behaved inappropriately, but the account is ambiguous and it's their word against a well-regarded employee's. How do you handle it in the moment, and when does this stop being a frontline call?

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The instant a complaint is about an employee's conduct in a customer's home, it stops being a frontline call — I do not adjudicate an allegation like this on the phone, and I don't let 'well-regarded' pre-decide it.

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