Telephone automated answering systems?

press 1 for english
press 2 for spanish

press 1 if you know the extention
press 2 if you do not know the extention
press 3 for a list of the extentions

press 1 for this
press 2 for that

You get the idea.
Well after 30 minutes of pressing buttons you are no closer to finding out anything or any closer to talking to some one, but its a maricle, finally after all this time it says -

press 0 to talk to a opperator

but then you get a recording that says -

all of our opperators are busy press 9 for the main minu
or call back later

at this point you feel like throwing your phone through the wall
I hate this and think that is if a business wants to do business with you they should hire someone to answer the phone

automated phone systems are sappose to save time but they end up waisting your time

how do you feel about that?

Don't call something like that first thing in the AM, starts off for a bad day! Agree all the way and I really get flustered with the ones you have to speak into and they can't get what you are saying! Not to mention the ones that you pressed all the buttons ONLY to find out you have to call yet a new number only to punch in all the same info. I think they were more of a $cost$ cut as opposed to a TIME saver.