{"id":85215,"date":"2015-04-01T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/85215\/how-can-call-centre-be-improved\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:39:23","slug":"how-can-call-centre-be-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/01\/how-can-call-centre-be-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"How can call centre be improved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of service delivery continues to raise great concern for the DA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent months, residents across the board have become frustrated and angry by the uncaring and dismissive treatment they experience with the metro\u2019s call centre when they try to complain,\u201d said DA councilor Chris Swanepoel.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He went on to explain that the core function of the call centre is to take and log complaints and requests from the public, regarding service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>However, as the GCN has reported in the past, there is a huge discrepancy between a logged call from the public and tracing a call or giving feedback to the complainant.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe inadequate process must be given attention immediately, otherwise the millions spent on the establishment of the call centre and the 250 operators employed amounts to the funding of just another white elephant,\u201d said Swanepoel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the situation stands, there is very little, if any, communication to members of the public from those responsible for giving feedback on how long their problems and issues will take to be finalised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/80406\/da-conducts-follow-up-visit-to-sunnyridge-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\">DA impressed with school\u2019s positive attitude.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69452\/da-councillors-from-across-the-metro-describe-how-the-water-crisis-has-affected-their-wards\/\" target=\"_blank\">DA brief the media on the Gauteng water crisis.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='49e4771e716939c00cb458fb71425d3c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DA speak out about the state of call centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":85302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1653,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-85215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-call-centre","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["call centre","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}