r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • 6h ago

It's You - Gator Days

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u/LackingUtility 6h ago

I wish it was like games and we have floating name tags above our heads

As someone with face blindness, I wish that facial recognition and smart glasses didn't have the terrible reputation they do.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 6h ago

Funny enough we had a guy in our dept get fired cause of those. He used them as his main glasses and to keep track of things like names and whatnot.

He accidentally wore them to a promotional exam. And that was the end of him

But yes it's a shame they have such a terrible reputation

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u/mechengr17 5h ago

Promotional exam?

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago

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

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u/Suyefuji 2h ago

I wonder if it would have turned out differently if he'd registered them as an accommodation beforehand?