My favorite work story is from 10 years ago. We had an internal IRC server for the devs. I'd written an IRC bot to do some basic functions. It was running on my desktop.

I get a call from IT on my work phone. My co-workers hear my end of the conversation:

"No, it's not a bot net. It's just one bot. Yeah, I wrote it and it talks IRC."

Thankfully they left me alone.