How "date oriented" (anniversaries, birthdays, etc) are you?


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scarlet13 is offline scarlet13 Post #21  November 21,2009, 10:41am

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This trauma will damage brain cells, probably the ones containing memory of your birthday!

I recommend associative learning; for instance, you delivery a passionate Kiss while saying "my birthday is ..." Thus, with any luck, I come to associate your passionate Kiss with whatever day is your birthday.
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D_Lion wrote :
I don't want to be bothered ... actually, what I don't want is the erroneous implication that an attribute of forgetfulness is a matter of moral deficiency, when it is not.
I think we've determined that forgetfulness is not the issue here. If morals enter into it at all, it is in passing it off as forgetfulness when it actually is a matter of choice. As long as you select someone who honestly feels the same way, I don't see why it should be a problem.
 
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D_Lion wrote :
What I meant by "sustainable" was that I favor treating a person consistently day by day, and not differently on certain days.

Though, personally, I generally do not remember things like this - more specifically, it is random whether I do or not.

It's like forgetting the number of my mobile phone, things like that.
I understood what you meant by sustainable and I think my question is still valid. What is unsustainable about you remembering a date of importance to your partner, for the duration of your relationship?

I see your point re treating a person consistently the same way day in and day out ... but even that approach has pitfalls. The older we get, the likelihood of family and friends becoming ill and dying, eventually previously non-important dates will become important and I suspect many men and women will need a little extra attention from their partner on those dates.
 
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I don't want to be bothered ... actually, what I don't want is the erroneous implication that an attribute of forgetfulness is a matter of moral deficiency, when it is not.
I think though, that some forms of forgetfulness can be attributed to moral deficiency. At work, have you come across a colleague who did not do something of which he/she was fully capable of achieving and glibly says 'I forgot'. At which point, you walk away thinking 'lazy, indifferent, incompetent'. Have you never had that experience at work?
 
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Ha! That person is more likely to be me!

Through, if I say "I forgot" it is always the truth - not to mention all the other things I can point to which I accomplished in the meantime.

I found the adaptation to put a database in a shared network resource where my boss can put requests or tasks he wants completed. Always have a way to turn the tables!
 
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You would drive me mental if we worked together.
 
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That's part of my strategy!
 
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Your strategy is to annoy your colleagues by forgetting to do work requested and then to cover yourself by pointing out other work you did accomplish? (Am quite curious: this would not fly at all in my company)
 
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Well, my post was half for fun ...

But ... I am pretty effective at knowing what executive management wants, and making sure I am working on those goals.

Yes, I will ignore requests from low-rank people to focus on tasks which will drive a bottom-line result (probably why I advance and they do not.)

I never work on a $10 k project when a $100 k project is open. Every time this bumps to the CFO level, he validates my choice.
 
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I can't always discern written humour.

I'm fairly similar - with the difference that I delegate the lesser task to one of my Team to complete, rather than ignoring it. Because I know that very rarely will higher management back my decision to ignore work which needs to be done regardless of the ultimate value to our profit margin.
 
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