I have sort of a strange situation. I provide consulting services for (mostly) small business owners. This generally involves scheduling some meetings, and I have an email “Personal Assistant” bot that does this for me. It has a female name (which was the default), and does not announce that it is a bot (though I don't think it's hard to tell). It gives a standard salutation and signs off with “Thank you, <bot name="">.” All it does is schedule meetings, and it's not nearly to the level of an AI chat bot or anything. Any parts of an email that it receives that don't seem related to scheduling just get ignored by the program. The emails show up in my inbox and I review them to make sure everything got added to my calendar correctly.</bot>
However, this complete lack of personal-type interaction has not stopped several of the men (not usually the actual owners of the client businesses) it is scheduling appointments with from asking it out on dates. Sometimes this happens within the same emails that were used to schedule meetings, and once a man sent an after-hours email from his personal address (which is somehow both creepier and also better work/life boundaries? I don't know!). So far I have just ignored these incidents and gone on with the professional relationship like nothing happened.
Obviously, this would be inappropriate behavior if it was happening to an actual human assistant, and I would deal with it. However, since it's happening to a bot, what am I supposed to do? Obviously the bot doesn't have opinions about the issue, but if one of my employees was asking out women after a very basic scheduling email with absolutely no personal content, I'd probably want to know about it so I could address it, because it's probably happening to real human assistants as well. What are your thoughts?
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Just had a very serious discussion about you and your plume de lurgè of my precious !coomers tag. Things are not looking good for you and I hope you pray to a Christian god because buddy ur going to need all the blessings you can get after I whallup ur butt for good 👍🏽
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But @ChristMAsLLOWEENewYear was the one who made me head of coomers. I don't know how or why but he did
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@A can you confirm you are a liar and will take my viral load when I'm in Egypt this summer?
Ed, babes, I'm sorry to involve you, but just don't talk anymore please. Thx!!
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I have no idea whats going on
!biofoids is this what you feel like everyday??? *sips tea*
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90% sure it was but I don't care enough to check my history
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