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This needs a name

Michael_S — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:55:00 GMT

OK Community, we need a name:

Remember all those times you had to debug an issue with a bot? That's this guy. It's a bad bot. It's constantly misbehaving, messing up your automations and giving you headaches.

What would you call it?

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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RE: This needs a name

MScott219 — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:32:00 GMT

Confound or Confounded

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Matthew Scott
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RE: This needs a name

Michael_S — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:56:00 GMT

Love Confound @Matthew Scott

I also had these suggestions on LinkedIn:

JIMMY
Dustyn
Trubble
Blue

I'll pick a name on Thursday, keep the suggestions coming!

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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RE: This needs a name

michaeloneil — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:01:00 GMT

CAD (callous automation destroyer)

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Michael ONeil
Technical Lead developer
NTTData
Europe/London
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RE: This needs a name

shashank.kumar280 — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:15:00 GMT

Bottleneck

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Shashank Kumar
DX Integrations Partner Consultant
Blue Prism
Singapore
+6581326707
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RE: This needs a name

stepher — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:20:00 GMT

Okay, I like all of the names proposed so far, but I think it should be something simple and generally innocuous. I would like to suggest 'Bob'. Being a Bob, myself, I know that we tend to take the blame for a lot of things outside of our control. After all, Bob is not really a bad Bot, he was just developed that way.

Also, as child of late-mid-20th century schooling here in the States, I can see this whole campaign done in the style of the safety films that they used to show us in class (think any of the "Red Asphalt" series, or "Stop, Drop, and Roll").

INTRO: The music begins--a generally, upbeat but minialist orchestral score. The video has a strong film grain effect, with prominent scratches. The camera opens on a largish-1960's cartoon city. It starts zooming in to find Bob laying in the middle of the sidewalk, other functioning Bots trying to make their way around him. As the camera finishes zooming in on Bob, the narrator (practially pulled from a 1950's TV game show), begins.

NARRATOR: Meet Bob. Bob is a Bad Bot. You might think that Bob being bad would only affect [editor: effect?] his performance. But no. Bob being bad affects [editor: yeah, pretty sure affect] the bots around him, and the Developers assigned to support Bob and all of the other Bots. But Bob did not start out trying to be be bad. Bob came into being with the same hopes and aspirations of all of the other Bots--to be helpful and productive... To make a difference. Let's take a look at what we can do to make Bob a better bot.

Okay, enough fun for the morning.

Enjoy,

Red

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Robert "Red" Stephens
Application Developer, RPA
Sutter Health
Sacramento, CA
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RE: This needs a name

ÖzençGezgin — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:36:00 GMT

Crazy
Disoriented
No-Bot

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Özenç Gezgin
Supervisor
Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.
Europe/Istanbul
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RE: This needs a name

CharlotteK — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:37:00 GMT

Note to self: no longer make stupid jokes on LinkedIn

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Charlotte Kennett
Sr. Director, Global Customer Experience
SS&C Blue Prism
Europe/London
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RE: This needs a name

Michael_S — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:38:00 GMT

Thank you, @Robert Stephens , for making me laugh harder than I've ever laughed at anything in this forum so far 😆 I can picture the safety film so clearly!

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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RE: This needs a name

kkazantsev — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:45:00 GMT

Rogue Bot or RB or RoBby ( Bob may like this one )

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Konstantin Kazantsev
Solutions Architect
Church and Dwight
America/New_York
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RE: This needs a name

diane.sanzone — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:54:00 GMT

How about

Squeak - like the squeaky wheel gets the grease?

Ninja or Ninja-bot - he has a way of sneaking into your day and sucking up all your time before you realize what happened

or, at the risk of getting sued for copyright infringement...

Terminator - I don't think an explanation is needed for this one 🙂

Also, @Robert Stephens, I absolutely LOVE your story. Great way to start my day, thanks!

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Diane Sanzone
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RE: This needs a name

MichealCharron — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:28:00 GMT

Load-K3Y

The tech god of mischief, trickery, and deception.

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Micheal Charron
Senior Manager
RBC
America/Toronto
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RE: This needs a name

Mukeshh_k — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 20:13:00 GMT

@Michael Shillingford - Sneaky Blinder ? innit? 😄

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Kindly up vote this as "Best Answer" if it adds value or resolves your query in anyway possible, happy to help.

Regards,

Mukesh Kumar - Senior Automation Developer

NHS, England, United Kingdom, GB
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RE: This needs a name

Michael_S — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:34:00 GMT

Well @Robert Stephens - congratulations! We're going with Bob. Bob the bad bot. And the backstory you wrote is now canon in what I hope will become deep lore about this misunderstood mecha.

Thanks for your suggestions everyone! This thread was really fun 😀

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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