Muppets & Work ID

Zebra3

Is it just me or does anyone else think that people walking around town with their work ID still on them look like dickheads who are trying really hard to look important?

Maybe in the 80s having a work ID thing meant you were important or whatever, nowadays they're two-a-penny.

Seriously people, take them off when you leave your job, you look like a tool!!!!

estebancambias

Oh yeah, in the gym you see a lot of these types, just strolling in with their suit, or skirt for that matter, with the damn ID dangling around their neck. It's not something that bothers me, but I have thought about it.

Cabaal

People have more important things to deal with in their lives, sometimes people just forget to take these things off.

I for one have managed to finish work, go home and then go into town to get the train to Dublin and still forget to take off my secureID from my belt.

Big deal!, you need to relax and learn how to breath

Irish Wolf

+1

It's a little like someone who wore a massive keychain in the 80s.. look at how many keys I have dangling off my stone washed jeans..

Zebra3

Cabaal wrote:

Big deal!, you need to relax and learn how to breath

It's my pet hate.

I have one myself, but as soon as I walk out the door of the job, the ID is in the pocket.

Kintarō Hattori

I hae to agree with zebra, it annoys me too when I see people walking around with these dangling from their necks.

red_ice

Zebra3 wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else think that people walking around town with their work ID still on them look like dickheads who are trying really hard to look important?

Maybe in the 80s having a work ID thing meant you were important or whatever, nowadays they're two-a-penny.

Seriously people, take them off when you leave your job, you look like a tool!!!!

your a tool.

Where i work everyone from the janitors to the executive board wear the same work tags. Has it ever occured to you that some people just plum forget to take it off? I do all the time.

red_ice

Sounds like some people have a problem with their Mc Job

Cabaal

red_ice wrote:

Sounds like some people have a problem with their Mc Job

hmm so you think all these people with ID'S are paid low wages..think againm

McJob is slang for a low-paying, low-prestige job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intracompany advancement. Such jobs are also known as contingent work or "jobby jobs." The term McJob comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status job — regardless of who the employer is — where little training is required, staff turnover is high, and where workers' activities are tightly regulated by managers. Most perceived McJobs are in the service industry, particularly fast food, coffee shops, and retail sales. Working at a low paying job, especially one at a fast food restaurant, is also often referred to as flipping burgers.

AlmightyCushion

Cabaal wrote:

hmm so you think all these people with ID'S are paid low wages..think againm

I think he means that the people with the mcjobs are jealous of the people with ID cards.

Kintarō Hattori

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I think he means that the people with the mcjobs are jealous of the people with ID cards.

Seconded.

I don't have a McJob. I have a job which is relaxed enough to not require ID's.

Zebra3

red_ice wrote:

your a tool.

It's "you're" not "your", you tool. :rolleyes:

red_ice wrote:

Where i work everyone from the janitors to the executive board wear the same work tags.

Same in my job.

red_ice wrote:

Has it ever occured to you that some people just plum forget to take it off? I do all the time.

Well the people I see wearing them having them dangling around their necks. You couldn't be walking and not notice you're wearing one.

Red Alert

I never really notice as long as they don't start taking out their phone and arranging meetings at the tops of their voice on the LUAS. Last time I had an ID was when I worked in a shop, and it was easier to leave it on and put it and my work clothes in a safe place when I got home.

tallus

Doesn't bother me tbh, if people want to or forget to take them off, who gives a toss. It's only a tag after all.
I do understand the pet peeve thing tho, I have a few of my own.

Canis Lupus

I leave mine on otherwise I have a card and the wrapped up chain thingy filling my pocket. What is the big deal... Do you really think we walk around with them to show off what important jobs we have or something? :rolleyes:

*Tripper*

Jesus, maybe the OP has some sort of inferiority complex! Who cares, some people just can't be arsed to take them off, take a chill pill man.

Mahatma coat

when I used to wear one I found that if I took it off before I got home and could put it safe, I ran a high risk of forgetting where it was and finding my self in all sorts of trouble the next mornin at reception, so twas always easier to just leave it tagged on me belt Mon-Fri

Pigman II

It's probably mainly the generation who grew up watching the X-files who are doing this.

trout

My work ID is a swipe card, which you use to get through doors and secure areas in all the buildings, as well as paying for lunch in the canteen.

Two years ago, the photo ID fell off (wasn't sealed properly) ... and my colleagues drew in a smiley face (like this ) with permanent marker.

If I am ever stopped by a security guard, I'll have some explaining to do. :rolleyes:

I leave the work ID clipped to my belt at all times ... no biggie.

Dord

The card I use in work is really only for clocking in and out, has my picture and name on it though. I just stick it in my pocket.

I see all the Hibernian people walking around with those stupid tags all day though. :mad:

Terry

It's been very common to see people in Leixlip do this for the past 16 or 17 years.
I'd say most people forget (I once walked 2 miles home from work with a hard hat on and didn't notice until I got home), but I'm sure some just like to show people that they have a job that requires them to carry ID.

Piste

I wear a namebadge in work and so far I've never remembered to take it off when leaving (we're meant to leave them in work so we don't forget them) and have walked home with my name and where I work stuck on me, I'm not trying to look important, I just keep forgetting!

Shiny

If I'm wearing a shirt or something with a chest pocket,
I always put it in there but it is still around my neck if you
know what I mean.

Otherwise I cruse around town with it hanging from my
neck like the cool and important person that I am.

Overall I think its cool to have to use the card to get in
(and get out!!) as you know the building is then scumbag
proof.

copacetic

I must be pissing the OP off as I wear my badge clipped to my belt from the minute I get dressed. I've forgotten it a few times and had to go home and get it as can't get around my building without it.

I'd rather have hundreds of nerds think I was a wanker than make one extra trip home to get it. It's certainly not a status symbol, everyone has to wear one as mentioned above.

I'd always plan to take it off if heading out after work or something but usually only remember when I notice someone trying to read where I work off the badge.

The Bollox

I just forget to take mine off. or I couldn't be bothered as my ear phones are over the badge which means I have to take out the ear phones, take off the badge, put the badge into my pocket and the put my ear phones back in. all the while missing out on 10 / 15 seconds of a potentially fantastic Jeff Hannemann solo. if it is still on, and I am in this predicament, I hide the badge under my jacket as to not attract attention

Firetrap

I don't have a problem with it. Maybe it's just a handy way for them to keep tabs on it and not lose it. In my job we have swipe cards which activate the doors that lead into the office and making sure it's somewhere safe is the bane of my life.

constellation

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya

Sorry. I'll leave now....

Kiith

Seriously, people get too worked up over stupid things like this. What does it matter if i leave my badge on after work? I leave mine attached to my belt, and i never take it off. I'd rather have you think i'm a 'dickhead who is trying really hard to look important' or a 'tool', then forget my badge and have to spend €30+ to go home and get my badge/fob.

FunkyChicken

I hate wearing mine as it has a photo and I look like a tool in it

still though I often forget I'm wearing it also yea the guy who made this thread is obviously feeling hard done by or just plain crazy to get worked up over something like this

MooseJam

people from my last job used to score using their id's, the birds would be O my he works for X company I bet he's loaded

The Bollox

FunkyChicken wrote:

I hate wearing mine as it has a photo and I look like a tool in it

there's a reason for that

*runs before Terry can get the ban hammer*

kowloon

I never take mine off, and i like to flash it at automatic doors just before they open. I, like, totally, rawk

Cool_CM

Like many people i need mine to do everything and me getting paid depends on clocking in and out on time with it, as well as getting into the canteen and the building itself. I'm not exactly all there in the morning so I before I leave the house otherwise i'll forget/leave it somewhere. It doesn't have my company name on it, it luminous green and and I need it, if I forget to take it off after work and people think i'm a tosser so be it, at least i get cheaper bus fare armed with it than they do armed with their opinion

pred racer

always take mine off the second I leave work, and I leave it in the car. (if I havent got my car when I get to work my badge wont worry me too much:D )
I would feel like a right idiot if I was in a shop or walking down the street with my badges swinging round my neck!

BTW normally if you study people you can tell the difference between "look how important I am Ive got a badge" and "couldnt be arsed to take it off even if I did remember"

Mr. CooL ICE

In my current job, I leave it in the car, so its always there when I get to work, and I take it off when I'm in the car park for the same reason; to keep it in the car. Photo is crap though - idiot security guard who took it didnt crop the image of my face, so the photo is just a picture of a random guy with a shaved head sitting on a chair

In previous jobs and before I had a car, I might leave it on after work. TBH, if you wear it all day long, you tend to forget that its there. And no, I think its not necessarily a bad thing if people wear it on after work

Mahatma coat

pred racer wrote:

always take mine off the second I leave work, and I leave it in the car. (if I havent got my car when I get to work my badge wont worry me too much:D )
I would feel like a right idiot if I was in a shop or walking down the street with my badges swinging round my neck!

BTW normally if you study people you can tell the difference between "look how important I am Ive got a badge" and "couldnt be arsed to take it off even if I did remember"

+1

yeah, used to do that with the kneck badge, in the centre console of the car, job done, but when I got the belt clippy thinghy, well that was it, clip to belt and if yer out, move it round so the clip is above yer pocket and the card is inside the pocket, simple

Lump

I always have mine on me, however it's kept in my pocket. People find it odd if I'm in the pub with my work ID, but it's easier to bring it everywhere. If I forget it in the morning, I have to walk ten minutes to go from the rear of the building where I normally enter to the front reception to get a temp pass.

John

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Zebra3 wrote:

It's "you're" not "your", you tool. :rolleyes:

Correcting someones grammer, thats the worst comeback ever...

Thats my pet hate!

Sofaspud

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

Correcting someones grammer, thats the worst comeback ever...

Thats my pet hate!

I don't know if it was a deliberate setup, but . . .

"that's", not "thats"

(sorry)

Num Lock

In most workplaces, you are required to wear your ID around your neck all day as there are so many employees, it is the only safe way of identiying people in the building.

It's very likely people would forget to take it off once they leave if they have it on for 7 hours +. There's also the possibilty they are proud to work where they do, something which the OP may not be.

Spyral

the best ever ID badge is the labcoat that student doctors wear and they wear them EVERYWHERE! (no wonder we have MRSA)

Agent Smith

Zebra3 wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else think that people walking around town with their work ID still on them look like dickheads who are trying really hard to look important?

Maybe in the 80s having a work ID thing meant you were important or whatever, nowadays they're two-a-penny.

Seriously people, take them off when you leave your job, you look like a tool!!!!

i wear mine just to annoy people like you....


or

i forget to take mine off @ 5pm

either way, its not a big deal

jor el

Zebra3 wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else think that people walking around town with their work ID still on them look like dickheads who are trying really hard to look important?

Maybe in the 80s having a work ID thing meant you were important or whatever, nowadays they're two-a-penny.

You've a lot to be worried about haven't you? Ever think that after wearing it 8 hours a day 5 days a week that people might just forget or not be bothered to take it off. I put mine on when going out to work and don't take it off till I get home. If I forget it then I can't get in or out of the building and wearing them in work is not optional.

Seriously people, take them off when you leave your job, you look like a tool!!!!

Where do you put it though? It's uncomfortable to have a plastic badge in your pocket and I don't always have a jacket to put it in. Makes more sense to leave it on till you get home.

Tellox

Eh? I'd sometimes be spotted with my ID still around my neck after work, but its not as though its a fashion accessory. Its usually because I've either forgotten to take it off, or because I don't like the idea of it falling out of my pocket.

Plissken1

Zebra3 wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else think that people walking around town with their work ID still on them look like dickheads who are trying really hard to look important?

Maybe in the 80s having a work ID thing meant you were important or whatever, nowadays they're two-a-penny.

Seriously people, take them off when you leave your job, you look like a tool!!!!

Some people forget they are wearing them, the thing that is completely retarded, yet becoming common, is people walking around with bluetooth headsets...... now thats a dickhead !

jester77

I'm always carrying my ID around with me... but my place is all biometric It's great not having to remember to bring a card with you!

rubadub

Zebra3 wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else think that people walking around town with their work ID still on them look like dickheads who are trying really hard to look important?

Maybe in the 80s having a work ID thing meant you were important or whatever, nowadays they're two-a-penny.

Seriously people, take them off when you leave your job, you look like a tool!!!!

Indeed they are 2 a penny, and for that reason I think very few people wear them "trying hard to look important". You seem to have some preconception that people with them in the 80's looked "important", so are presuming everybody thinks so.

It never occurred to me people might think they look "important" with them, on the contrary I though it just looks like you are menial staff, I could not imagine a CEO or any upper management wearing one like a badge of honour.

Seems you could possibly have some sort of chip on your shoulder, like scumbags who hate "suits".

I dont wear a suit or ID in work, have no problem with those who do.

Femelade

well i work in a very cool place, so if we had id cards i would certainly wear it around for all to see..just to show off.

missmatty

I have a lab coat and a swipe card

Hate wearing it though, so when i discovered it still scans when in my wallet, I keep it there and wave said wallet at doors to get in. I never actually wear it inside or outside of work though.

Tzetze

OP, just be glad that those of us who have to wear ID cards are still lucky enough to be able to remove them when we finish work. The way things are shaping up, that might not be the case for very long. 'Thanks' to Verichip

zuutroy

Not to mention the muppets who think they're 'COOL', because their bit of string that holds the ID around their neck is different to the company issued one.