Can anyone understand this?

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I usually try to get by with not saying names at all whenever possible. If someone asks you "don't you remember me?" just say, "I'm sorry, I'm really not that great at remembering...what was your name again?"

I've been in quite a few CSR jobs and I've had customers use my name directly at me and it was always very awkward. Part of having a name tag isn't just so the managers can remember your name. It's to make you appear more friendly and open to customers if they have a question or need help finding something.

In my case I wouldn't just blurt out the name of the person after reading the name tag because I know how weird it is when a stranger uses your name. But if I find them interesting or friendly I want to know their name. But I'm not a very forward person and would be very uncomfortable asking them. So I look at the nametag. If I see them again maybe I could mention their name (like in a non-work situation) and form a friendship.

I know what you mean. The acting in this series of videos is a bit forced and over the top. I'm assuming that the people who made them are not trained actors, but university students who had a project.

I agree. Although I can relate with the situation it just doesn't seem real in the video.

Even for university students, it seems wrong. It's like there was a severe lack of research done into how a real person with Asperger's syndrome would approach this situation. Not to mention the "tunnel vision"...

Yeah, that gave me a sort of "demon is chasing said person" image.

I've almost lost people that are showing me ways to go because everything around me just looks so cool.

Towards the end she started with smalltalk and he didnt respond. Thats probably why she got angry when he looked at the name tag. He wasnt interacting with her when he went about his 'fact finding'.

So why wear one? God.

Oh so the name tags are for other bosses and co workers to read? So that was the etiquette rule?

I saw a girl in the street and her shirt had really small writing on it and it said "If you can read this you must be looking at my breasts".

That and he was leaning to far in to read the name tag.

If I were him I would have said "excuse me" and given her eye contact before asking my question. She was so busy typing she didn't even register that he was talking to her until she looked up. Even so though I would have expected her to at least acknowledge him with "just a moment" or "yes, could you repeat that". The way she reacted was totally unprofessional.


I'm guessing she had an attitude because she was inexperianced and frustrated with her job. I know I run across unprofessional people like that all the time. I had to train myself not to take it personally.

She was jabbering a mile-a-minute while he was clearly not able to keep up with her. I hate it when people attempt to bombard me with information that fast. She didn't seem very perceptive to the fact that he wasn't even able to listen to what she was saying.

Dude! I have to use my eyes, my head, my upper body to read - I have very poor eyesight!! !

Nowadays if I perceive a person is going to have an issue if I look at a name tag placed too close to their bosom (translation: chip on their shoulder and thinks all men are sexist) I will make it a point to ask permission to read the name tag and will explain that I have hard time reading print unless the focal length is exactly right (too many years wearing reading glasses).

Then if they act weird and just try to tell me their name (hinting that I should NOT look at all) they absolutely panic when they've said their name too soft for me to hear (15% hearing loss in both ears) and I ask them to repeat it (certain vowels I just can't hear unless you whisper them in my ear or you enunciate your words so well I can lip-read) so by then they are wishing either that they had just let me (innocently) look or that I should just disappear as everyone "knows" I am a creepy stalker who doesn't have a right to live.

Yuck! why are women so messed up???