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A rose by any other name
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A rose by any other name I have a problem with remembering people's names. I work in a large facility with 4 separate floors with 30-40 residents on each floor. I work a shift and a half with 3-6 aides on each floor and 1-3 nurses on any given shift. (less when short staffed but that's another story) On any given week I work with a large number of people. 3 shifts @ 12 hours each, 8 on night shift, 4 on day shift. 3-4 aides at night with 1 nurse, 5-6 aides on day shift with 2-3 nurses. Plus dietary aides, laundry personal, activities staff, social services, administration, doctors, traveling nurses, floats such as myself, continuing education nurse, secretaries, DON, ADON, Administrator, Computer Technicians, Human Resources, Floor coordinators, volunteers, religious leaders, Scheduling coordinator... fuck, it goes on. Lots of people. Tons of 'em. I just can't remember them all.  I've had moments of complete and total blanks where I just for the life of me could not remember the name of who I was working with, or who I was looking at or for. Not to mention who I was trying to give a report on.  I remember once when I was watching a lot of Blue's Clues with the Wee One and The Queen of No Pants I went into a room and asked the woman there if she'd seen "my friends".  Often I see people I worked with years ago at other facilities come to where I work now. Sometimes I know the face but not the name. Sometimes I don't remember them at all...but they remember me. When someone can't remember my name I tell 'em "Hey you works!" Does anyone else have this problem? How do you handle it graciously when you don't remember?   |
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4/6/2011 3:29 pm |
Admit that you've forgotten their name or maybe go over night and recall who you met today and their features.
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You do work with lots of people. Might be hard to remember them under the best of circumstances. That's why 'dear' or 'honey' always works.
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We deal with over 100 kids a day and tons of adults so don't feel bad about remembering names as I don't think there is a person out there that can remember everyone ........
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I'm extremely bad with names (and numbers). I tell people upfront on first meeting that I'm 'challenged' in this area, nothing to do with them, and if they'll forgive me, they'll never have to remember my name either. I drew a blank today at the gas company for the name of a woman whose property I've been managing for three years. It's pathetic.
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Yes, I'm not good at putting names to faces. If somebody in the street came up to me and said; "Hello, how are you, I haven't seen you in ages.", I usually have to think hard to try and remember them.
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4/6/2011 8:13 pm |
I have more and more of those senior moments the closer I get to being a senior. Wait. What age are you when you can be called a senior. Maybe that's the problem. I don't know that I'm the senior now. dunno. I use that quite regularly. "Wow, I recognise your face but this senior moment as caught me with a bit of embarrassment. I'll understand if you don't want to tell me your name again as long as you understand that I'm gonna call you Jane cause I can't remember what your name is. Sorry." He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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PB... That first paragraph turned my brain into mush. (I failed algebra 4 times. How I ended up runnin' engineering is, I suppose, kinda like a miracle?) Hell--I can't remember names of people I've known for 20 years. I've found the secret for gettin' past that, though. There are really only two "names" you need to remember, generally speakin'--"Bud" and... "Baby". Of course, that don't always go over well... if ya cross gender.  Solar...
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For giving reports? Keep a small notebook in your pocket and write the name on it. I am for shit with names unless I deal with a person on a fairly regular basis, or they made a big impression on me. I just ask them. "I know I know you, and you will have to forgive me for having a senior moment here, but I cannot recall your name." I have never insulted anyone with that approach. "Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson  
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Ya know, Mrs. R... I used to call my ex-wife, Baby Brains. Maybe she took it as less than a term of endearment? Solar...
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4/7/2011 8:49 pm |
I use a lot of "hey dude"s. Seems to me if you treat people with respect and kindness, the name thing usually doesn't seem to bother them. And if they do get uptight about it, well you usually remember the name of someone who acts like an asshole, so your covered for next time. I don't think I'd remember my own name if it wasn't for other people.
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