2003-02-21 | MEETING PEOPLE IS QUEASY

I just started working for a company that has 700 employees just at my location.

I've met so many people in the last two weeks.

I only remember about a dozen of their names.

Every time I work with this one lady who's training me, she asks me if I've met blah blah blah so and so....

And I'm thinking, I've met probaly more then 50 people this week, and I have to remember everyones name in my department, and you expect me to remember someones name who I may have passed in the hall one day, while getting a soft drink?

I've met so many people, that yesterday, I ran into someone who works in my department, and I didn't recognize him.

He approached me and said "How's it going, Jon?".

I replied with the famous "Hey....man.."

Of course he knew my name. He has probably met about 3 new people in the same time that I've met 50 plus.

He was actually my manager that night.

Embarassing.

I always wonder if people can tell when you have no idea who they are.

I think I'm pretty good at pretending.

Then there's the odd occasion when you do know someone, and you have to pretend you don't know them, or you pretend you don't see them, because you just don't feel like talking to them. It's that simple.

That happens a lot with people you hardly know.

It's weird when you see one of those people you don't really know, but you say hi to them when you pass in the hall, like ten times in one day.

After a while, you can both see in each others faces the disdain in having to pass this semi-stranger/semi-friend one more time.

That always ruins the relationship before it can truly begin.

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