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Exhibit 16 — In re Bank of America California Unemployment Benefits Litigation (Dkt. 564-11, S.D. Cal. No. 3:21-md-02992)

Filed October 17, 2025 in In re Bank of America California Unemployment Benefits Litigation; one of 1415 filings from this case.

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CourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Filed2025-10-17

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California · No. 3:21-md-02992-GPC-MSB · Doc. 564-11 · 2025-10-17 · Docket on CourtListener

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         UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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       SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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              SAN DIEGO DIVISION
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IN RE:  BANK OF AMERICA   : CASE NO.
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CALIFORNIA UNEMPLOYMENT   : 21-MD-02992-GPC-MSB
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BENEFITS LITIGATION       :
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               Oral deposition of JAY
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          MINNUCCI, taken pursuant to Notice,
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          held at Goodwin Proctor LLP, 3025
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          John F. Kennedy Boulevard, 8th
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          Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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          19104, beginning at approximately
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          9:30 a.m., before Mary Hammond, a
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          Certified Shorthand Reporter and
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          Notary Public in the state of
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          Pennsylvania, April 23, 2025.
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JOB No. 7288941
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that experienced a significant spike in -- in
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call volume during this time?
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     A.   Yeah, I mean, a number of them did
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get increases.  But, again, we often weren't
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specific to, "well, what exactly is it."
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          There's knowledge that they needed
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to resolve some issues and get people on the
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phone.  So you know you have to do that,
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whether you have a 100-percent increase or a
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20-percent increase, you know you got to
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start the ball rolling.
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     Q.   Did any of your clients experience
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a 20, 30, 40 X increase in call volume as a
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result of the pandemic?
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     A.   Not that they indicated to me, no.
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     Q.   Do you recall the largest --
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whether it was 3 or 4 X -- the -- the largest
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call volume increase that you recall hearing
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about from any of your clients during that
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time period, March 2020 through the end of
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2020?
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     A.   In -- in my discussions with them,
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that would be.  But, again, like I said, I
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know others had some pretty serious
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worked with a call center -- an existing call
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center that experienced a 30 to 40 X increase
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in call volume over the span of weeks or
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months, correct?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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               THE WITNESS:  Yeah, I -- I
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          believe that to be correct.
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     Q.   To your knowledge, had you ever
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managed -- or, I'm sorry.
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          To your knowledge, have you ever
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consulted with a client whose call center was
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specifically being targeted by criminals or
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fraudsters?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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               THE WITNESS:  Yeah, I think
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          many of the call centers I've
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          consulted with have -- have to deal
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          with criminals and -- and
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          fraudsters.
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     Q.   To your knowledge, have you ever
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consulted or worked with a client that over
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the course of -- of months or a year was
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servicing a program that was subject to
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billions of dollars of -- of fraud?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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               THE WITNESS:  You know, the
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          amount of fraud wouldn't --
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          that's -- that's -- that wouldn't
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          be my purview as a call center
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          consultant, so I wouldn't -- I
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          would just -- you know, again, I'm
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          dealing with generally call
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          volumes, handle times, that sort of
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          thing.
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     Q.   Let's turn to Appendix B of your
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report, your prior publications, March 2014
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to present.
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     A.   (Witness complies.)
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     Q.   According to this, you've -- have
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one publication in the last six years,
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correct, since -- since 2019?
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     A.   Yeah, that's correct.
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     Q.   And the rest are from 2014 through
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2019?
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     A.   Correct.
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should have been unimpacted by the
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unprecedented events that occurred during the
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COVID-19 pandemic?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.
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          Compound.  Assumes facts.  Beyond
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          the scope.
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               THE WITNESS:  It -- well, it
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          would -- it's a 2020 number, so
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          it -- it would include time periods
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          before the pandemic, time periods
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          during the pandemic, time periods
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          six months after the pandemic.
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          That's -- that's what would be
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          included.
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     Q.   But you don't know what specific
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2020 period is included for any of these 214
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call centers, correct?
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     A.   Well, I know normally, I -- I do a
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lot of work with people that gather work like
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this, the -- the work force management
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people.  I know if they were provided this
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document, this request, they likely would
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have gone back if they asked for 2020 data,
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exceeding 20 percent?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.
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          Compound.  Vague.
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               THE WITNESS:  Yes.
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          would likely be all over the board.
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          The timeframes -- I'm trying to
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          think of the clients that were up
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          there.
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          back to -- to 2003, thinking of one
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          particular client that I'm pretty
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          certain had some months between the
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          25 and 30 range.
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          could make is, then, you know,
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          sprinkled throughout, you know, the
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          next 15 years or so.  And, then, of
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          course, there were some during COVID
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          that had -- had some higher
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          abandonment.
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     Q.   Do you recall what industries --
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the call centers during COVID had higher
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               I -- you know, tens, maybe
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          hundreds of thousands of call
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          centers, so, you know, cert- --
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          certainly, there's some out there.
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          surprised -- I think a lot of people
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          think that, you know, the travel
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          industry must not have had phone
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          calls because, you know, people
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          stopped traveling.  They got killed.
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               You know, they got -- they got
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          substantial amounts of call volume
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          for a really very long -- for a long
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          time than any of them expected.
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               So I'm -- I'm not going to sit
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          here and say that there weren't call
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          centers that saw decreases, like,
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          I'm quite certain I can't point to
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          them, but, you know, I'm sure some
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          did.
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     Q.   Do you know whether the 214 call
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centers that were part of the "ContactBabel"
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survey, which was marked as Exhibit-10,
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whether they experienced increases in call
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volume or decreases in call volume in 2020?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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          The survey speaks for itself.
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               THE WITNESS:  Yeah, it -- I
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          didn't see anything in these
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          hundreds of pages here that spoke
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          to call volume of the 214.
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               MR. RIFFEE:  Okay.
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     Q.   Do you know whether any of the call
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centers that were surveyed in the
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ContactBabel survey experienced a 30 or 40X
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increase in call volume in 2020 year?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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               THE WITNESS:  You know, again,
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          if I -- I don't have the volume
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          data -- if there's no volume data
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          in here, I wouldn't know that.
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     Q.   Do you know if any of the call
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centers that were part of the ContactBabel
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survey handled unauthorized transaction
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claims on -- on government benefits cards?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Calls
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          for speculation.
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               THE WITNESS:  I -- I -- I
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          don't know every -- all the 214,
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          and -- and even if I did, I
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          wouldn't necessarily know what
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          was -- what makes up their call
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          center and what different divisions
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          and departments they may have.
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     Q.   Do you know of the 214 call centers
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that were surveyed, how many -- or if any of
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them were a second- or a third-line call
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center that wouldn't receive an initial call
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but would receive a transferred call?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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               THE WITNESS:  I wouldn't know
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          that.  I'd -- I'd be surprised if
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          some of that's not included in some
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          of those call centers, because
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          there's 214 of them, but I don't
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          know, again, because I don't know
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          the specifics of each of the 214
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          call centers.
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BY MR. RIFFEE:
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     Q.   So you don't know if some of this
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data might be aggregated pre- -- presenting
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some of the clients may have -- or some of
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the survey respondents may have provided an
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aggregate number for all of their call
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centers?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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          calls for speculation.
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               THE WITNESS:  Again, I don't
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          have any of the data, so...
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               MR. RIFFEE:  Okay.
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     Q.   Do you know if the 214 call centers
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that were surveyed as part of the
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ContactBabel survey experienced a targeted
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attack by criminals or fraudsters on -- on
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their call center or the product that they
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were servicing in 2020?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague.
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          Calls for speculation.
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               THE WITNESS:  Same answer.
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               Again, without knowledge of the
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          call centers, I couldn't possibly
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               MR. RIFFEE:  Okay.
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               Let's take a break for lunch.
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               Off the record.
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               THE VIDEOGRAPHER:  The time is
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          now 1:11 p.m.  We are going off the
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          video record.  This concludes Media
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          Unit Number 3.
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          recess held off the video record at
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          1:11 p.m.)
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               THE VIDEOGRAPHER:  Stand by.
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               The time is now 1:51 p.m.  We
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          are going off -- let me.  I'll go
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          ahead and restart that, if you don't
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          mind.
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               MR. RIFFEE:  No problem.
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               THE VIDEOGRAPHER:  Stand by.
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               The time is now 1:52 p.m.  We
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          are going back on the video record.
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          This will begin Media Unit Number 4.
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results are used to calculate Column (E)?
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     A.   Okay.
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          So do you want me to start with
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Appendix H then; is that --
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     Q.   Sure.
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     A.   Okay.
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          So Appendix H is based on data from
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other clients that I have.  So this is
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without the actual data from your bank or
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without data from an actual client, the --
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the next best thing that we can do is use
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data from other clients.  So that's what this
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is.
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process that I described that would have been
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done for the Bank had we had the data.
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and the process requires identifying the
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abandoned calls for a given time period, and,
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then, looking at those phone numbers with
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those abandoned calls, and, then, looking out
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in the future to determine did that phone
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number call back or not.  If it did, we call
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it a recall.  If they didn't, then, they
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didn't recall.
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          So I've had other clients do that
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work, and what we did was we mapped the
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abandonment range against the recall rates
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that they found, and, then, provide a
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distinct demand column at the end because
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that's what we're using.  It's just one line
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is the recall rate.  We're actually
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calculating a recall rate, and, then, simply
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taking one from it.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          How many data points are you using
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in your regression here in Appendix H?
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     A.   So we're going out -- we're
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probably looking at 30 to 60 days worth of
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data each for -- my estimate is probably
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about eight clients that we did this for, so
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however many data points that adds up to.
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can -- can fall in these different ranges.
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I've got six different ranges, so they're --
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they're falling somewhere within those
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ranges.
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     Q.   Okay.
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     A.   Yeah.  I actually do this work.  I
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sell -- I sold consulting projects where
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people have come to me and said, "We have
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this problem.  We don't know what distinct
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demand is," you know, "we don't know how to
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get their our data," or don't think that they
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can get their data.
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          When I explained to them that I
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have this, we have used this, that's been the
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job.  I've charged for that.  And I've had
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very satisfied clients as -- as a result of
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using this.  It greatly improved their
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workforce planning process.
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     Q.   Are you able to say which clients
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these data points come from?
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     A.   No.
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     Q.   What industries are these eight
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clients in?
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     A.   Various.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          Sitting here today, what industries
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do you recall each of them are in?
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     A.   So there's, again, more property
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and casualty, more health insurance.  There
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are utilities that are in here.
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     Q.   Any other industries that you
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recall?
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     A.   I'm trying to think.
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          So I'm going to say a membership
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organization as well, and I think that rounds
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it out.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          And based on this Appendix H --
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     A.   Mm-humm.
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     Q.   -- at least some of these eight
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clients fell within the 25 to 30-percent
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abandonment range during that 30 to 60-day
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period?
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     A.   I'm pretty certain, yeah, mm-humm.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          What time periods did these 30 to
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60-day periods cover, are they from this past
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year, are they from 2020, are they from --
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what time periods do they cover?
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     A.   So most of these, I -- I suspect I
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started collecting this data maybe around the
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2005 timeframe, and probably over the course
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of, you know -- so probably six to eight
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years.
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          You don't -- you have to realize
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the numbers that you see here are bad.  You
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just don't run into a lot of clients that are
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having days with a 26-percent abandon rate as
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a regular thing.
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     Q.   Mm-humm.
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     A.   Maybe occasionally here and there,
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but it doesn't happen as a regular thing.  So
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it -- it's just not something that comes up
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often in a consultant's work, because it just
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doesn't happen out there in the field very
13
often, so it takes a while to -- to actually
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get some clients that fall into these
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categories.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          So you said you began collecting
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this data -- I think you said going back to
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2005, and it covered about eight years.
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          So is this all data from about to
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2005 or 2018 or something more recent?
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     A.   No, that'd be -- that would be
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about right.  I don't think I've added to it.
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However, I've used it.  I've used it during
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on or back to Page 1791, the second page of 2
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article.
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     A.   (Witness complies.)
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          Mm-humm.
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     Q.   The first full paragraph, the
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second sentence, it says, "The Erlang C model
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system a very simple multi-server queueing
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system.  Calls arrive according to a Poisson
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process an average rate of" -- you'll need to
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help me there, what that symbol stands for.
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          Does this mean the Erlang-C formula
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is based on assumptions that calls are
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serviced by statistically identical Customer
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Service Representatives?
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               MR. JONES:  Objection.  Vague
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          and confusing.
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               THE WITNESS:  Yeah.
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               So my understanding is
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          "statistically identical" means
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          that -- that they have the same
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          characteristics.  So -- so they have
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          the same skill sets.  So it's --
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          it's not a case of where -- to give
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          you an example, I assume that
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          that's an -- there's an agent in
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          there that can handle claims calls,
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          but, then, sometimes gets a call
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          from another queue, like a fraud.
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               So it wouldn't -- it wouldn't
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          be something like that because a
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          simple Erlang calculation does not
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          account for something like that, but
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          that's not the case in -- in our
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          particular situation here.
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     Q.   Well, did you check to see if the
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CSRs in the Claims call center had varying
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levels of performance or speed or experience?
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     A.   Well, every call center has that.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          And would those varying factors
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render them non-homogeneous and not -- not
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identical?
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     A.   Well, they're -- they're within
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standard variations, which is why all
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workforce management systems use Erlang-C.
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That's what we use in call centers.
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     Q.   Okay.
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          And going down to the end of that
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same paragraph, the first full paragraph on
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the page, it says, "A fourth performance
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metric monitored by call center managers is
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the Abandonment Rate" --
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     A.   I'm sorry, where are you?  Are you
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on my report or...
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     Q.   No, I'm still --
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     A.   Okay.
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     Q.   -- on the same --
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     A.   All right.
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     Q.   -- article, Page 1791, the bottom
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of that first full paragraph, it looks like
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the last two sentences --
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     A.   Okay.
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     Q.   -- of "A fourth performance metric
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monitored by call center managers is the
18
Abandonment Rate; the proportion of all calls
19
that leave the queue (hang up) prior to
20
service.  Abandonment rates cannot be
21
estimated directly using the Erlang C model
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because the model assumes no abandonment
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occurs"; is that -- is that accurate?
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     A.   You know, I don't like the way it's
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Reporter. 
Mary Hammond 
April 23, 2025 
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