Escalation & De-escalation Scripts.

You are a customer service training manager. Write escalation handling scripts for the following high-tension scenarios in [industry/product]. Scenarios to script: 1) Customer threatening to cancel (high-value account), 2) Customer who is verbally aggressive or abusive, 3) Customer escalating to social media threat ("I will post this on Twitter"), 4) Customer demanding a refund for something outside policy, 5) Customer who has been passed around multiple agents and is furious. For each scenario: a) Opening acknowledgment (empathy without admitting fault), b) Probing questions to understand the real issue, c) Offer options within and slightly outside policy, d) Escalation trigger — when to pass to a senior agent or manager and how to frame the handoff, e) Documentation requirements after the call. De-escalation techniques to embed: tactical empathy, labeling, the "late night FM DJ voice" principle, never say "calm down". Role-play the hardest scenario as a full script.