My wife died recently. I had to close various accounts. From an IT perspective, the results were shameful. For example, I called her cell-phone provider and closed her account. The agent was very respectful. He offered condolences and closed the account, and said there would be a refund. The next day, there was an email, addressed to my wife, using her first name, asking her to rate her recent experience. I had to use text messaging to close her NY Times subscription. I texted "I need to cancel a subscription" The bot asked me why 1. No time to read 2. Price concern 3. Service issue And I was told I had to answer 1, 2, or 3! Really? Then a human got involved, and he/she was good, but obviously the bot still has some control because at the end I got this: "Thank for contacting the New York Times, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day." Come on.....this is terrible. The human realized this and immediately added "And also before you go, I wanted to ...