[ExI] Do you fancy a date with a bot? Really???

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Men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name.
By Alison Green on January 8, 2024

<https://www.askamanager.org/2024/01/men-are-hitting-on-my-scheduling-bot-because-it-has-a-womans-name.html>

Quote:
A reader writes:
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 chatbot 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.

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.
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