Amazon Shoppers Are Posting Screenshots Of Online Chat Reps ‘Flirting’ With Them
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The remote life has overturned the dating scene. One might even say that swiping right on someone and then meeting them in person falls under traditional courting. Today, it seems the new thing is chatting someone up on whichever digital platform you’re on, even if you’re a customer service representative.
A viral tweet posted by a Twitter user named Roxana, which includes supposed screenshots of “flirty” texts from an Amazon customer service staffer, has sparked off more similar accounts by shoppers of Amazon and other companies.
Not the amazon customer service guy legit flirting with me LOOOOL pic.twitter.com/TZ4pHS2K4k
— roxana (@whtvroxana) August 22, 2020
Roxana, who was enquiring about a parcel and said she was “in a rush” to settle the matter, was seemingly told by an Amazon Prime representative, “You are very sweet and I must say you have a very lovely name.”
The employee later updated her on the transaction by writing, “I have a good news [sic] and a bad news [sic] for you,” before asking which side she wanted to hear about first.
When the customer said it didn’t really matter, the customer service officer said, “Good news is that [the] seller will contact you within 24 hours… bad news is that after this chat we are going to part ways.”
Her post has incited several others to bring up similar experiences with customer service staff.
In one unusual recount, an Amazon customer service representative is shown to have admitted to a shopper, “My manager is giving me five minutes on this chat and I haven’t assisted anyone else for two hours. I really really loved chatting with you today.”
The staffer also mentioned that their exchange was “amazing” and that they “hate[d]” for it to end. “Haven’t had a chat like this in forever,” they said.
One person showed a screenshot where she was complimented as “breathtaking” after she had attached a photo with her face in it.
On the other side, some Twitter users have argued that the conversations were friendlier than they were flirty, to which one person replied, “Do you talk to your guy friends like that?”
Others defended that the representatives might actually be following Amazon’s customer service script, or that a language barrier could have made it difficult for some employees to gauge boundaries.
You can form your own judgments by viewing some of these texts below.
‘Bad news is that after this chat we are going to part ways’ ahcqjfkrksks
— donna paulsen stan account (@_m3ganlily) August 22, 2020
Damn homie got the same pickup lines for everyone
— Yeah (@Alvaro_1220) August 23, 2020
we were actually in love pic.twitter.com/Xw8WkCtEJJ
— astrology whore ☪︎ (@urDESrespectful) August 23, 2020
DUDE I swear this happened to me last year. I think it’s because I had to email them something and my pic was attached to my email account pic.twitter.com/6debXM8qfz
— suz (@suznorris) August 23, 2020
He's been 2 minutes, have some patience man
— Ethan (@ephelps_) August 23, 2020
You can say the same thing about guys, man. A friend of mine went to get Starbucks while I stayed in the car one time. When he came back, he said he thinks the cute Starbucks girl liked him because of how she said, ”Bye, have a nice day.” This dude was serious.
— The Cardsharp (@the__cardsharp) August 23, 2020
do you talk to your guy friends like that
— ☠️Sarah🥀 (@gothvalleygirl) August 24, 2020
99% of the time it’s because they’re native speakers and are directed to be super nice and welcoming. They don’t really understand much of the language barrier they have so they sometimes look overbearing. In reality they’re trying to get a raise and better ratings.
— Steven (@HelixLXIX) August 24, 2020
It’s all scripted and they’re told to be overly nice. Doesn’t help that there is a language barrier between most of them. The customer service representatives superiors tell them to do this stuff so they get good reviews. It’s painfully obvious.
— Steven (@HelixLXIX) August 24, 2020
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