Do you have to wear a badge at work?

[maveric]

I work for a shipbuilder/defense contractor and all employees are required to wear a picture ID badge with your employee number.
My last job, when I was in nursing, required a badge with your name and job classification (LVN, RN, CNA..., no pic though).
Are you badged or badgeless at your place of employment.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. Badged...

I have to have one to get into the office.
Duckie

[GOPisEvil]

2. Badge and magnetic door swipe card.

It has to be above the waist and below the shoulders.

Edit - I also have to show my id to the gate guard to get into the parking lot in addition to having a parking sticker on my car.

[maveric]

6. My badge is also my timecard, so to speak. Magnetic strip.

I use it to clock in and out as well as to time-in on job numbers.

[LynzM]

3. Same as Duckie....

Not for ID, though that too (no pic, though), but for keyless entry into the building. One for the client's building, too, though that one has secure chip and photo.

[yvr girl]

4. Badge

We just got new ones.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Badged.

Photo ID, also used for keyless entry into the building.

[AngryAmish]

7. I wear a look of resignation

[Strong Atheist]

8. Teacher, all employees must wear badges...

security... Columbine, wayward strangers, you know ...

[hickman1937]

9. Badged. Need it to get in the gate.

It's supposed to make it harder for spurned lovers or irritated employees to get in with a gun. I've lost mine before and had no problem getting someone to click me through. Probably if I had an AK47 slung it might have been harder.

[ET Awful]

10. No, but I do need to have a card with me to get in and out of the

building. I work in a radio-pharmaceutical company, so there's some sensitive chemicals and such inside. We also have to have access tightly regulated per FDA regulations.

[sasquatch]

11. I wear a vest does that count?

:D

[Orsino]

12. Badged, but...

...no one takes seriously the stated requirement to wear the badge visibly at all times.

[japple]

13. Badge with photo ID and bar code

which is used on the timeclocks and for opening doors within the hospital.

[kedrys]

14. Badge

New contract job I've been at 4 months, same requirements as employees: a single badge lets me through the parking lot gate, into the building, into our office area, past the turnstiles to the elevators to the cafeteria, and log in to my computer. We can wear them clipped to clothes or around our necks, and all badges come with a little leash reel thingie so you don't need to take it off to buzz in and whatnot.

It's vaguely convenient. I should resent it, but I can't quite.

[rustydog]

15. Badges!? We don't need no stinking Badges!

Yes, we are required to have photo id badges.

[Dukkha]

16. here's my badge

may I have access now?

[LSK]

17. no badge

But I have an ID card to get in the building on weekends or at night.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. I used to wear badges like these

Note: Autofocus doesn't. :grr:

[fizzgig]

23. i still wear a badge like that

its got my picture on it...also have a second badge, also with my pic, to get into the building

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Highway patrol/state police pass? (n.t)

[fizzgig]

28. my press pass

plus the one we have to swipe to get into the newsroom

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. My last paper was so lame

we didn't even have our own credentials — just business cards. I used my CHP pass as "official" ID.

[Dervill Crow]

19. Yep, for building security.

I don't know closely people look at it, though. For a few weeks after Halloween several years ago my badge sported the name Mimi Bobeck and this picture. I normally don't wear quite this much makeup.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Nope, no badge. I'm in charge, so I don't need one.

and the other employee doesn't have one, either. :-)

My jobs in NYC were all badge jobs, though - with security strips, coded for opening certain doors, and checked by security outside the skyscrapers as well as the security inside.

[NMMNG]

21. At one of my jobs we have an employee ID

Although we are not required to wear it, whenever we take the clients into the community we can wear it. The purpose of the ID is to identify ourselves as staff in the event of an incident with the clients where we might have to physically assist or restrain them. In the past people in the community have become concerned and/or tried to intervene when this has happened, and the agency thought it a good idea if the staff had ID to show to indicate that we were not just strangers "beating up on defenseless disabled people", as it might otherwise seem.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

22. Yes I have a security badge .

It let's me in the gate and it let's me through certain doors in the building . I have to wear it at all times while working .

[XemaSab]

24. My ex BF had an ID badge AND a radiation badge

He was cool like that. :D

[hfojvt]

25. not badged

but I have to wear a company shirt with a logo. The company, in this case, is the city government.

[RevCheesehead]

27. Some hospitals request that we do.

But more often, I forget and leave it in the car. No big deal - they just think I'm another visitor, until the patient introduces me as "my pastor."

[tjwmason]

30. I'm supposed to, but don't.

It's a door swipe-card too, and in theory were supposed to wear them anytime we're on site. Mine lives in my pocket - I think that they look ugly, and thus don't wear them.

[Popol Vuh]

31. Oh hell no not at my work...

At my job, here's our sentimen: Clicky

B-)

[supernova]

32. Picture badge and magnetic strip

for the badge reader. But this is very old. This place had a workplace shooting back in the early 80s. The shooter following his girlfriend into work one day through the unsecure fence and unsecure door.

Now you are required to badge in at the front door and most office areas inside, in addition to the highly secure computer labs.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. Nope. -nt

[Patiod]

34. Half-badged

Have to have it on my person (like clipped to my purse) to access the building entrance and the elevators, but don't actually have to WEAR it.

[El Fuego]

35. Badge

It's also a key for all the doors.

[bleedingheart]

36. I am badgered...but no badge

[Brewman_Jax]

37. Badged here

to get into the building and the test lab is locked. I've a magnetic card for that. We look at quite a few beta and prototype circuit cards, multiplexers, and some software. Can't have just anyone bouncing around in there, not even fellow employees.

[anarch]

38. yeah...I actually have two

one from the government, and one that's a key card to get into my company's building. It's kind of funny, because the pic for the company badge was taken when I was first hired, and the one on the government-issued badge is after several years of working for them...so it's like "before and after" shots. The "after" picture looks totally haggard and exhausted. :)