[PapaBear3625]

My next to last Fortune 500 employer gave us new badges. I went to the badge maker’s website. They said their system would, among quite a lot of times, provide the exact time totals people spent in the bathrooms, lunch room and smoking areas. It could be set to record how long they were in their assigned area and list everywhere they went. A friend kept his badge (necessary to enter certain labs) inside a faraday cage. But, as I pointed out, if they really wanted to they could make him wear it around his neck as they knew the instant he shielded it.

OK, so leave the badge at your desk when you go to the restroom and lunchroom.

[Gen.Blather]

“OK, so leave the badge at your desk when you go to the restroom and lunchroom. “

You were supposed to wear the badge prominently at all times. This particular guy was intimidating enough that nobody said anything. But given that I don’t have the I’ll-kill-you-in-a-heartbeat facial expression, I had to wear mine or somebody would comment. Also, if you had to access certain areas you’d have to walk a long way back to your desk to retrieve it.