I work at a convenience store and we have a lot of regular customers. I recognize some of them, but I don't others, and they get really irritated when I card them for beer and tobacco everytime they come in, because they think I should automatically recognize them and remember that they're of legal age. What can I say, though? A lot of these people are really nondescript!
2007-09-24 03:42:42 · 13 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Say that it is policy and you can go to jail for not carding them and that they are not worth the time or loss of wages joke with them about it. Let them get mad are they going to stop coming to the store b/c you card them tell htem it should be a conpliment to get carded. If they do not come back then there are a thousand of customers that will.
2007-09-24 03:50:20 · answer #1 · answered by Janey from Louisiana 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a neurological disorder that inhibits facial recognition. Of course, most of the diagnosed cases are very severe, where the person cannot recognize people who are close to them (like family or lifetime friends). Read some of the Oliver Sachs books, like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat".
Also, I once talked to a guy who had been blind as a child. He could see fine now, but he never learned some very basic skills, never built those basic visual connections, we acquire when we are children. As a result, he had trouble recognizing people and things, he would have to *think* about what he was looking at, not just *know* the way others do.
However, it just might be a matter of memory. You just might not have the sort of memory that remembers faces. I cannot remember names, but I have very good spacial memory, and rarely forget a face. You might be the opposite. It isn't recognition, it is memory.
If you are really bothered by it, or think it is getting worse, talk to the neurologist.
2007-09-24 10:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by Wundt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO, most of the people who are working in customer service have the same problems.
Naturally, people are like to recogning by others. They thought they're the most important person when they will recognized by some one. Human nature is they should receive more attention from other persons. So always they would think the sales boy or girl would remember them.
Most of them wouldnot recognized other persons
2007-09-24 10:55:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have the same problem..I think most people look alike unless they have things that stands out . I would be a terrible eye witness. I would say color of hair and style and only if they had a scar or something would I really remember them.. My kids are embarressed because they have so many friends that come and go and I can't remember all the names. Heck, even the movies are hard for me...they ALL LOOK ALIKE I go by what they are wearing lots of times..So to answer your question NO and I am glad I am not the only one either.
2007-09-24 10:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by Eileen J 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Your not the only one. When I was in high school I got teased and bullied a lot and it became a habit of mine to walk down the hall with my books clutched to my chest and my eyes cast downward. I never took the time to take in peoples facial features and study them. While I do hold my head up these days I still only take a quick glance at people and rarely am able to keep information on how they look. I, too, need something very interesting and unique about them to remember them the next time I see them.
2007-09-24 11:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Too true. I've passed people in the street who were offended but I guess my mind was on other things. Some people are self absorbed. I for one don't always want to be recognised in a store especially if I'm in a hurry and don't have time for idle chit chat. Our brains are so overloaded now that the fact that you don't always recognise someone whom you think should is really a small thing unless it's your husband/girlfriend...or mother!!!
2007-09-24 10:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh i know your problem only to well, I work for a hospital
and somehow people expect me to remember their faces and their complications!
I've got a good memory , but you can't expect me to
remember all those faces and complications that go with them!
So don't worry about it , after all your just doing your job.
Nobody can expect you to go remembering hundreds of faces
and what they want to drink or eat, (let alone how old they are)so if they don't like it, they should get themselves a life or simply visit another store!
2007-09-24 10:55:14 · answer #7 · answered by Immune to Bieber Fever 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You only have so much space in your brain (same as everyone else) for memories so why clutter it up with useless info like the face and age of every Tom, Dick and Harry that shops at your store? You are fine, you are normal, don't let it bother you. Just say "sorry, I see lots of people every day and can't remember everyone."
2007-09-24 10:46:27 · answer #8 · answered by kawm63 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's called face blindness, and it isn't as rare as you think.
I must have some form of it, because often I will be introduced to someone for the first time, and when I have to find them a few days later, I can look right at them and ask, do you know where so-and-so is, and they say, "I'm so-and-so, we just met!"
2007-09-24 10:49:46 · answer #9 · answered by Bill W 【ツ】 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I dont recognize people soon too and I am bad with remembering names also.
But if you have a small chat with them when they come over and use their names often as you speak to them it iwll help you remember them much easily.
2007-09-24 10:51:10 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋