What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Nurseandy]

Its known as "Prosoprognasia"

[Frnc]

Face blindness, I believe. I have it too. A person's voice clues me in straight away, but their face? Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

FRNC described it just as I experience it. See a person out of context and suddenly she is a stranger. A close colleague, or neighbour bumped into at the garden centre etc. One can appear to be ignorantly 'dissing' them, when in fact there was no recognition. I suspect I have it (after what may have been a mini stroke). Same if I bump into a first cousin at any place other than a funeral. Zero recognition of them. It can prove embarrassing...

There's been a couple of times where someone's come up to me and they knew for sure who I was decades after we last saw each other, but I wouldn't have recognised them. And if we met a week later I wouldn't have recognised one of them, the other I might because they had a very distinctive look.
Yes, it is embarrassing. I remember once getting a job in a big company. At the start I was sent round various departments for a few hours to get to know people. I was dreading walking past people at a later date.

I got made redundant after the 3 month trial, and the company went bust a few months after that. They didn't like the fact that I tried to do my job. They wanted me to NOT do one of the main parts of my job. Also they wanted me to do two people's jobs (of course I didn't know this at the interview stage), but the second one had never really been done by anyone, and wasn't really possible, as it was using a system that didn't really work. It was a bit annoying because they had approached me when I wasn't even looking for a new job. Also, before they got rid of me, they got rid of my two bosses, who I liked, and put someone over me I didn't rate that much.

[Frnc]

Its known as "Prosoprognasia"

I'll have a read. I don't remember having it as a kid, but I have been conscious of it for a number of years. My mum says she's the same, but has only got it recently. She is 90. I do remember being bad with names for longer. Sometimes I would forget the name of someone I know very well, just like a mental block. I looked up mental blocks and it was talking about people trying to repress memories. I don't believe that's the case with what I'm talking about. I have been known to call my brother by my sister's name or vice versa. I seem to remember my parents doing similar.

[jansman]

Face blindness, I believe. I have it too. A person's voice clues me in straight away, but their face? Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

FRNC described it just as I experience it. See a person out of context and suddenly she is a stranger. A close colleague, or neighbour bumped into at the garden centre etc. One can appear to be ignorantly 'dissing' them, when in fact there was no recognition. I suspect I have it (after what may have been a mini stroke). Same if I bump into a first cousin at any place other than a funeral. Zero recognition of them. It can prove embarrassing...

There's been a couple of times where someone's come up to me and they knew for sure who I was decades after we last saw each other, but I wouldn't have recognised them. And if we met a week later I wouldn't have recognised one of them, the other I might because they had a very distinctive look.
Yes, it is embarrassing. I remember once getting a job in a big company. At the start I was sent round various departments for a few hours to get to know people. I was dreading walking past people at a later date.

I got made redundant after the 3 month trial, and the company went bust a few months after that. They didn't like the fact that I tried to do my job. They wanted me to NOT do one of the main parts of my job. Also they wanted me to do two people's jobs (of course I didn't know this at the interview stage), but the second one had never really been done by anyone, and wasn't really possible, as it was using a system that didn't really work. It was a bit annoying because they had approached me when I wasn't even looking for a new job. Also, before they got rid of me, they got rid of my two bosses, who I liked, and put someone over me I didn't rate that much.

That’s employers! My boss is a bas*tard. They think Humans are machines. This article has made me smile.

Workers over 50 encouraged to end early retirement https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802

My gaffer can get stuffed. I have messages from colleagues who cannot understand why they treat GOOD AND SKILLED staff like idiots and machines ,nor why they leave. This country needs a word with itself!

[diamond lil]

That's because bosses want people who will do what they're told without questions, not people who can do their jobs properly or use their heads.

[jansman]

That's because bosses want people who will do what they're told without questions, not people who can do their jobs properly or use their heads.

My Jan is in teaching- part time - but like myself, our generation I think - she runs round like a blue - ars*d fly! Gets thought of? No, they want more! Now in fairness, they are allowing her paid time off etc. BUT. I have asked her to do her job as well as she does, but with 25% less. Let the lazy youngsters she works with DO something , instead of leaving it to her. Kids ain’t daft.

[GillyBee]

Face blindness is horrible.

Nearly walked straight past my stepmum in the hospital last year. Combination of changed hair, looking rough and not having seen much of her over the last couple of years (thanks Covid).
I use the way people walk. sound of voice, that sort of thing to help me recognise people along with usual location. And don't bother putting me in a pub quiz and asking me to recognise the famous people. I can manage some famous photos and that will be it. Marilyn Munro in "that dress & pose" - fine. Marilyn wearing anything else standing normally? No hope.

I now let people know about it when I introduce myself. It is less embarrassing a couple of weeks later when I don't recognise them.

[Frnc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

FRNC described it just as I experience it. See a person out of context and suddenly she is a stranger. A close colleague, or neighbour bumped into at the garden centre etc. One can appear to be ignorantly 'dissing' them, when in fact there was no recognition. I suspect I have it (after what may have been a mini stroke). Same if I bump into a first cousin at any place other than a funeral. Zero recognition of them. It can prove embarrassing...

There's been a couple of times where someone's come up to me and they knew for sure who I was decades after we last saw each other, but I wouldn't have recognised them. And if we met a week later I wouldn't have recognised one of them, the other I might because they had a very distinctive look.
Yes, it is embarrassing. I remember once getting a job in a big company. At the start I was sent round various departments for a few hours to get to know people. I was dreading walking past people at a later date.

I got made redundant after the 3 month trial, and the company went bust a few months after that. They didn't like the fact that I tried to do my job. They wanted me to NOT do one of the main parts of my job. Also they wanted me to do two people's jobs (of course I didn't know this at the interview stage), but the second one had never really been done by anyone, and wasn't really possible, as it was using a system that didn't really work. It was a bit annoying because they had approached me when I wasn't even looking for a new job. Also, before they got rid of me, they got rid of my two bosses, who I liked, and put someone over me I didn't rate that much.

That’s employers! My boss is a bas*tard. They think Humans are machines. This article has made me smile.

Workers over 50 encouraged to end early retirement https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802

My gaffer can get stuffed. I have messages from colleagues who cannot understand why they treat GOOD AND SKILLED staff like idiots and machines ,nor why they leave. This country needs a word with itself!

What happened with me...a director approached me and offered me a job. He knew about me because I'd applied for a job there in the past. I was put in charge of complaints and customer advice. He had a big pile of complaints and told me to deal with them. In about the first week or so, I wrote a letter to the customer. My boss changed the wording. The customer interpreted it in a way that doubled the compensation we paid out. I got the blame (off other bosses) for signing the letter he changed. Fair enough I suppose. My two bosses left around this time. I paid £40 compensation to another customer because they had to waste a lot of time and I thought our production needed tweaking. But the bosses had no interest in improving our process, let alone compensating anyone. So I think they thought I was costing them too much. Their penny pinching was probably one of the reasons they ended up closing a 100 year old company with a name everyone knows.

[jennyjj01]

Face blindness is horrible.

I wonder... Just idle musing... Have we just discovered that Face Blindness is linked to having a prepping mentality, because it seems pretty common here? Or is it just that we preppers tend to be of a certain age? I feel a poll and a graph coming up.

Age range

Mental Acuity

Number of acquaintances

Percentage we would recognise

Number of tins of Beans Held

Tinfoil Hat Wearer?

[Le Mouse]

I'm off to Ikea in a bit - for two reasons. First, there's some bits and pieces I have my eye on, not least the good tea lights they do. Second, I've never driven on a motorway before (only passed my test about a week before covid locked everything down) as I don't live near one. I figure the roads today might be halfway ok to try it out. I went to London last week using a route that avoids motorways, but it seems I ended up on an A road that is of motorway standard, so I figured I should give it a go properly. Plus if I do that trip again, I could halve the journey time by going on the motorway