
“In banking, don’t be afraid to explicitly ask for a fee refund. As a bank employee, my employer does not want me to proactively offer fee refunds. But if you ask for it, I have to at least try to refund it.
If you do ask for it but are denied, know that that decision was likely made by a machine and request a manager to refund it. This works the first, maybe second time, but will eventually stop working if you make it a habit.”
When I did IT support this was always our first question before someone would be dispatched deskside, always got assurances that computer was shutdown every night and had just restarted and they didn't know why they always had issues. Get deskside check uptime (in front of user) and find it had been running for 45 days with no restart, restart computer and suddenly everything is working fine (always made sure to document in ticket resolution)...