Poor communication in professional offices: your examples

As a client or patient in an attorney's, accountant's, physician's or other professional's office, what are the best and worst examples you have experienced of communication there?
What great communication would have made you want to nominate such an office (or one employee there) for an award for excellent communication? Conversely, what happened that made you think "Don't they ever communicate with people?"


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