Your notice to the credit bureaus can facilitate customer assistance.

For the next several days TWU members instituted workplace rules and committees and kept the phone system working smoothly without management, including all of operator services and customer assistance.

"We have made detailed plans in order to have customer assistance and crowd control to get people to their trains as conveniently as possible with little or no extra time," he said.

Then the discussion turns to customer assistance.

TTY customers can dial 571-272-9950 for customer assistance.

While two of the women are so engaged, they are interrupted by an irascible Peller, who searches in vain for customer assistance while making the outraged demand: "Where's the beef!"

But Ms. Sanchez, who has been in customer assistance at the post office for 11 years, says that sometimes New Yorkers can be quite difficult.

As for the other complaints, Mr. Pelletier said that Intuit had just installed a toll-free number for customer assistance and that hold times had declined to 4.5 minutes.

So the city seems an unlikely place to find candidates for a job that turns on cheerful customer assistance.

These categories range from misleading advertising and aggressive marketing methods to failure to provide after-sales customer assistance and effective complaint handling.