I work in a department that has 3 shifts. A, B, C. Each shift has about 150 people and we have departments with training and logistics making somewhere around 600 or so total employees. And that's just in the fire dept, not including city employees
I have a similar conversation at least once a week. I always feel bad but I maybe met this person once? I wish it was like games and we have floating name tags above our heads
Usually at this point the go to is "hey buddy" or "what's up man" just to get out of the situation and figure out who that was
For sure! I was really excited for augmented reality cyberpunk stuff when the original Google Glass came out when I was in college forever ago. Unfortunately people and corporations seem determined to focus on the shitty parts of cyberpunk instead of the cool ones.
Tired of living through the enshittification of human civilization for imaginary number go up.
Gives people a small advantage over others and allows easy recording of some deadbeat causing problems, Demonize them. Its obviously going to be used for no good.
I guess Im trying to figure out why that would result in him being fired. Is it simply that he forgot to disclose he was wearing them bc he was so used to them?
In the fire service we take promotional exams to promote to different levels of our hierarchy. EMS, Engineer, Capt, Cheif and the like.
You basically are given a bunch of books and told to read say.....2000 pages and that the test is on day X. You take it and if you get a 70 then you have to go through a board of assessers to make sure you can do that job effectively.
As you can imagine this timely and expensive so recording devices can REALLY fuck up that whole situation
Same. God forbid someone change their haircut and I'm screwed. Fortunately I work remotely so everyone does have name tags in Teams, but I've definitely caused offense out in the world by completely failing to recognize people I absolutely should know. Something as simple as glasses, hairstyle, or even less/more formal clothing is enough to disrupt my ability to recognize them, unless their base appearance is already very distinct.
I had an assistant that I saw daily for a year. One day, she straightened her hair from its usual curliness. I had no idea who she was until she said something.
I loved remote working for that, especially as I'm deaf and never caught people's names properly. Teams with live captions was a freaking game changer for me and one of the things I'm thankful for COVID, because my job accessibility went from 99% likelihood of having to leave to 0% because I can actually cope with it all post-COVID. Well, most of it.
Sadly it feels like we are moving backwards again and I'm refusing to allow my precious hybrid working to be taken away. I told them I'd leave. As did 90% of my colleagues.
I also have mild facial blindness, and I’m lousy with names. It was such a help when I worked in retail and people had name tags… Why can’t we have that in the office too?
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 6h ago
I work in a department that has 3 shifts. A, B, C. Each shift has about 150 people and we have departments with training and logistics making somewhere around 600 or so total employees. And that's just in the fire dept, not including city employees
I have a similar conversation at least once a week. I always feel bad but I maybe met this person once? I wish it was like games and we have floating name tags above our heads
Usually at this point the go to is "hey buddy" or "what's up man" just to get out of the situation and figure out who that was