If your support query to Facebook is taking longer than you expected, it might be because the company's employees and their friends and family are cutting to the front of the line.

Facebook has a special internal email hotline commonly referred to as "Oops@," where employees can submit any support queries they have for priority treatment, multiple former Facebook employees told CNBC. There is also an internal online form that can be used for similar purposes.

"It's good to know people in Facebook," one former sales employee told CNBC.

These channels serve as routers that get employee requests where they need to go in a speedier fashion than the company's external support systems, employees said.

The channels can be used for a variety of requests. Primarily, employees submit requests when a friend gets suspended from their account or forgets their password. They can also be used to help friends who run businesses submit an appeal to Facebook if their business submits an ad that gets rejected by the company. The tool can also be used to flag questionable content employees come across that they believe should not be on the company's services.

Facebook built the tools because employees were taking too much time working on helping solve issues for their friends, one advertiser with friends at the company told CNBC.

"So that's good for us, but bad for other folks," the advertiser said.

However, some employees said the channels were not that helpful, and it is more helpful to submit requests to specific teams or employees.

A Facebook representative confirmed the existence of the hotline, but noted, "Oops is not the best way to report content issues," such as inappropriate posts. "The best way is through the Report link that appears next to the content."