Basic Trope: A wealthy and powerful character doesn't bother to remember the name of anyone less important than them.
- Straight: Robert "Bob" Richworthy III employs Alice as a maid, but he never learns her name and just calls her "Maid" or "You there."
- Exaggerated: Alice has been working for Bob's family for decades and was even his nanny as a child, but he never remembers her name.
- Downplayed: Bob is generally attentive, but occasionally calls Alice "Allie" or "Alma" by mistake.
- Justified:
- Bob is a Scatterbrained Senior / Forgetful Jones / Cloudcuckoolander who has trouble remembering anyone's name, not just his employees'.
- Alice is a new hire and Bob has not yet acquainted himself with her.
- Bob is an arrogant jerkass who doesn't really care about Alice.
- Bob has over a hundred people working for him; it's hard to remember so many names.
- Played For Laughs: Alice goes to increasingly outlandish methods to try and make Bob remember her name.
- Played For Drama: Alice greatly admires Bob, but has a Broken Pedestal moment when she realizes he looks down upon her as another nameless servant.
- Inverted: Bob makes sure to remember all of his employees' names, as well as other key information about them, like birthdays and family members.
- Subverted: Bob pretends not to remember Alice's name as a Secret Test of Character to see whether she can maintain her professionalism.
- Double Subverted: Bob's whole "test of character" claim was just an excuse because he actually can't remember her name.
- Deconstructed: Alice wonders just how selfish and narcissistic Bob is that he can't bother to remember something as simple as a name.
- Averted: Bob remembers the names of employees without issue, and no attention is called to it.
- Defied: Bob makes the effort to remember Alice's name so he doesn't come off as an out-of-touch Upper-Class Twit.
- Lampshaded: Alice asks Bob, "You do remember my name, don't you sir?"
