From 41d00a3e9d450d6d2595d6f2c49cce0f79d3fcf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Cook Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 13:19:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add support note re difficult customers (#9546) * Update customer-support.md * Update contents/handbook/comms/customer-support.md Co-authored-by: Joe Martin <84011561+joethreepwood@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Joe Martin <84011561+joethreepwood@users.noreply.github.com> --- contents/handbook/comms/customer-support.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contents/handbook/comms/customer-support.md b/contents/handbook/comms/customer-support.md index 5c95fe764f8d..0967163a3fb7 100644 --- a/contents/handbook/comms/customer-support.md +++ b/contents/handbook/comms/customer-support.md @@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ The direct interaction between our engineering team and our users is _hugely_ va Providing support across most products is a responsibility shared across our engineering teams - we expect everyone to jump in and help a user if you see they have a question or problem. Once you have made the initial contact or response, it is your responsibility to see it through or explicitly hand over to someone else if they are better-equipped to help. -One person on each product team takes on the **[Support Hero](/handbook/engineering/support-hero)** role each week. This is a rotating responsibility, where the person involved spends a significant chunk of their time responding to support queries across Slack, email and Zendesk, and sharing that feedback with the team and/or building features and fixes in response. We have found that each stint as Support Hero has thrown up a lot of really valuable feedback. +One person on each product team takes on the **[Support Hero](/handbook/engineering/support-hero)** role each week. This is a rotating responsibility, where the person involved spends a significant chunk of their time responding to support queries across Slack, email and Zendesk, and sharing that feedback with the team and/or building features and fixes in response. We have found that each stint as Support Hero has thrown up a lot of really valuable feedback. + +### Difficult support requests + +We very occasionally receive messages from people either wishing to make a legal claim or who you suspect may have a mental illness, either via the app or [Community Questions](/questions). If this happens, notify or in the first instance. They will either take this on, or advise you on how to reply. ## Community