The other day at work I ran into someone who has been on assignment overseas and I hadn't seen him for at least a year. He looked at me and I could see all of the wheels clicking as he thought, "who is this guy, oh yeah it's him, what's his name." He was only able to verbalize a "hey, Hey, how you doing." I hate forgetting peoples names. I once worked a job where some guy thought my name was Jack. "Hi Jack!" he said one day as he passed me in the hall. What did he just call me, I thought. Then it happened again "Hi Jack." "Hey, how you doing," I replied. Why did I do it, why let him think my name is Jack. With each "Hi, Jack" I kept digging a deeper hole, I kept thinking I can't tell him my name's not Jack it's been too long he'll be embarrassed. Worse, I'll be embarrassed to have been such an idiot to have let it continue for no good reason. Luckily he was just a temporary employee and I only had to endure this hallway name calling for what turned out to be a couple of weeks. Now I always correct people immediately when I'm called by the wrong name.