This is a game for anyone who has to wear a name tag to work. To play it, all you must do is wear your name tag upside down to work, and see how long it takes your co-workers to notice. Whoever goes longest without hearing hearing about how his nametag is up side down from a coworker wins, and recieves the prize of all the other contestants sympathy for working with such absent minded and oblivious people.
The rules are simple:
People from other departments in the store you work do not count as coworkers since you do not directly work with them.
A customer calling out the upside down nametag does not count, unless said customer calls it out in front of a co-worker. In which case, game over.
Threatening others lives about making observasions about your nametag is cheating, unless you have done this before you started playing, in which case…well…I don’t know what that means :o .
I’ve now gone one and a half workdays, which amounts to about eight and a half hours. Anyone game?
I’m going on three MONTHS wearing only part of my badge. We have the picture side and the BZZ-through-the-door side. I removed the picture side about four months ago. A few weeks later I was prompted to put the piccy back on. Did so, upside down. No one noticed. A few weeks after that the piccy side fell off. I’ve yet to put it back on, and no one has commented since.
I have full access to even judge’s chambers… and [cue Cheers theme song] nobody knows my name[/cue Cheers theme song].
Many many moons ago, when I worked retail, name badges frequently disappeared. It was common for me to be “Ed” or “Pete”, if I had forgotten my badge. A few people noticed, but nothing came of it. Our rules were that we had to wear a nametag. No one said WHOSE nametag we had to wear.
I have a weekend job, and when I work during the week I don’t have to wear a nametag, so I can’t really try this out until Friday night.
That being said, at Six Flags we have a color-coded nametag system. Black is “entry-level” or normal, red is “lead,” and green is “office clerk.” I’m an office lead so I usually wear the green, but sometimes I wear red, and the first few times I wore the red instead of the green I had co-workers comment on it. However, a few weeks ago I wore last year’s black nametag just to see if anyone noticed. Nobody did.
Same here…well, they’re on the little retractable zip-thingers (they’re keycard ID’s). I suppose a bit o’ tape would fix allow me to hang it upside down, but that’d really get in the way when I want to open a door.
Tell ya what…how’s about I flip over the name plate on my cubicle?
That I’ve already done. I, in fact, have 2 name signs with my correct name on my cubicle, one is upside down, and one is sideways. And one name sign reading “Wyatt Katslastname” (long story) that gets put up diagonally from time to time.
I made it an hour and twenty minutes this afternoon before a customer even glanced at my nametag.
My department, the copy center, has control of the labelmaker since we sometimes need it for our organizational things. As such I have access to new nametags whenever I want to, and when another coworker forgets theirs it is my job to replace it. I like to add random adjectives to their names (Kate the Great, Baily the Bouncy, etc.). Not one of them has ever gotten called on it.
My nametag is worn on an apron, so when I take the apron off to work in other parts of the store I need to make myself a different tag. The other day I was Ethelred Unreddy for half an hour, and no one even noticed.
I work in a supposedly “secure” office environment, adjacent to the airport. The security guards (what a joke!) are not supposed to let anyone in without an ID badge. Years ago I placed a large apple sticker over my face and it was MONTHS before anyone noticed, and then they (“security”) only commented that there was an apple over my face. Didn’t ask me to remove it, mind you, just noticed that it was there.
Okay, okay, since 9/11 things have tightened up a bit and if my badge is turned around to the back I’ve been asked to turn it over so they can see my picture. Still, I wonder how many times I and others have walked by the “checkpoint” while the so-called security guard slept or was busy on the phone?
Just for fun I’ve turned it upside-down at JoeSki’s suggestion. I’ll let you know what happens.
