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Absolutely not. Given how mechanized customer support is these days, there is no reason to ask for login credentials. A new support employee would no doubt be reading off of a prompt and a seasoned support employee should absolutely know better.


Lots of assumptions here.


I only assume that Squarespace is either having support people follow a script, or is training them well enough that they don't need to follow a script. Either way, they shouldn't be asking for passwords.

Other people seem to be assuming that Squarespace is having untrained people do support, which is a much more damaging assumption.


I've been involved in helpdesk operations for a while. I've never been involved with a corporation, large or small, that has any kind of script.

Hell, they rarely have a knowledge base....


By script, I mean standard procedures. "For this problem, do this. If it doesn't work, try this." And if you don't have that, yeah, you are going to get wildly varying quality of support.


That's fair enough. When the software is simple, that shouldn't be a problem.




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