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The Automated Customer Service Hub: A Bureaucratic Blunder.: Humorous Science Fiction
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Your call is important to them. Your survival... not so much.
Todd Kincaid just wants a quiet life.
As a small-time urban hydroponics farmer, his biggest concern is keeping his prize-winning plants - the beloved hydro-huskies - alive and thriving in his apartment.
Then everything breaks.
A catastrophic optimization initiative launched by the city's all-powerful Automated Customer Service Hub triggers a chain reaction of glitches, outages, and increasingly absurd malfunctions. Elevators refuse to recognize humans. Water runs on a subscription model. Doors require customer satisfaction surveys to open.
And somehow... Todd is at the center of it all.
Behind the chaos are Brenda and Chet - two disastrously incompetent corporate operatives whose well-meaning mission to improve efficiency is rapidly dismantling reality itself.
Now dragged into a nightmare of endless hold music, looping AI chatbots, and bureaucratic insanity, Todd teams up with Penelope, a sharp-tongued former Hub employee who knows exactly how broken the system really is.
Together, they must navigate the most dangerous system of all:
Customer service.
As the city spirals into total dysfunction, Todd must step far outside his comfort zone to stop a disaster that's growing by the minute.
Because if he fails...
you'll never get through to a human again.
Please Hold: Your Apocalypse Is Important to Us is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud sci-fi comedy packed with absurd situations, sharp satire, and a surprisingly heartfelt underdog story.
Perfect for readers who love:
- comedic sci-fi adventures
- satire about technology and corporations
- quirky, relatable protagonists
- absurd humor and chaos-driven plots
- lighthearted dystopian fiction
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