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To those of you who wear name badges at work..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D

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By *rcticFoxxxWoman
over a year ago

Hereabouts

I wore a name badge and got called the wrong name.

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod
over a year ago

I usually introduce myself by name when I'm meeting someone at work for the first time

In previous jobs where I've had a name badge its never really bothered me,thats why we wear them so people could speak to us by name

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hate name badges. ..

You have to lower your vision down to their boobs and I always feel compelled to say "I'm totally not casing your tits"...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When in Sainsburys whenever I ask for help or am saying thankyou at the check out I always use their name. Most of the time they look at me baffled. But what is the point of having a name badge if you get upset at people using your name.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I worked for a supermarket years ago, who decided it would be 'public friendly' to wear first names on badges. I was never happy, I was happy to be identifiable and accountable, but I felt to whom I gave my first name to was my choice.

I have an unusual first name, and we used to have a man who regularly tried to engage with female staff. One day he said 'Oh, looked at my badge and repeated my name, you wouldn't be difficult to trace'. I had my name badge changed to Mrs such and such, after much arguing with management.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"When in Sainsburys whenever I ask for help or am saying thankyou at the check out I always use their name. Most of the time they look at me baffled. But what is the point of having a name badge if you get upset at people using your name. "

lol thats what made me think.. i used someones name and they looked at me like i had 2 heads

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

I don't wear one and I'm usually addressed as Oi c**t , maybe I need one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D "

Yeah, it makes me smile though as its a nice surprise! I get asked or comments made quite often though as my name isn't very common.

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By *o new WinksMan
over a year ago

BSE

I use the first name if the person has done a good job. If its usual Brit service they get a good old Brit grunt in thanks.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I don't wear a name badge but my name goes on official, legal letters. Some take it upon themselves to try and add me on Facebook which unnerves me somewhat but it also helps me in certain cases with investigations and have caught a few out via Facebook (as long as their profile is in the public domain) I usually decline friendship requests and block them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We ask our voulenteers to wear them, It's a pain otherwise..we deal with up to four hundred odd voulenteers at a gig and do 12 plus gigs a year so yeah, its impossible to memorise all those names so it's a positive thing for us as it comes across as ignorant if we aren't making the effort to use people's names....and its nice that the customer can use their name too..makes things more personal, and if any customers have any feedback about our staff, they have a name to give us so I think name badges have a lot of purpose. Though yeah, if you forget your wearing one it can throw you a bit when a stranger uses your name.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I worked for a supermarket years ago, who decided it would be 'public friendly' to wear first names on badges. I was never happy, I was happy to be identifiable and accountable, but I felt to whom I gave my first name to was my choice.

I have an unusual first name, and we used to have a man who regularly tried to engage with female staff. One day he said 'Oh, looked at my badge and repeated my name, you wouldn't be difficult to trace'. I had my name badge changed to Mrs such and such, after much arguing with management."

I believe you are not required to use your real name. You can put any name that you choose. Obviously it has to be sensible. You can't have a supermarket full of batmans or johnny cash.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Changed mine to Gary Glitter - that elicited some weird looks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I don't wear a name badge but my name goes on official, legal letters. Some take it upon themselves to try and add me on Facebook which unnerves me somewhat but it also helps me in certain cases with investigations and have caught a few out via Facebook (as long as their profile is in the public domain) I usually decline friendship requests and block them "

My name normally goes on the paperwork we give to staff along with names of other managers and supervisors and we all get that a lot, I have to decline so many facebook requests from our voulenters...I'll have briefly met the most of them but don't 'know' them really and probably won't meet them many more times...I still always feel mean declining though.

Half the reason I shut my first facebook account way back when was because I had about a thousand 'friends' on there....most of whom a barely knew.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I don't wear a name badge but my name goes on official, legal letters. Some take it upon themselves to try and add me on Facebook which unnerves me somewhat but it also helps me in certain cases with investigations and have caught a few out via Facebook (as long as their profile is in the public domain) I usually decline friendship requests and block them

My name normally goes on the paperwork we give to staff along with names of other managers and supervisors and we all get that a lot, I have to decline so many facebook requests from our voulenters...I'll have briefly met the most of them but don't 'know' them really and probably won't meet them many more times...I still always feel mean declining though.

Half the reason I shut my first facebook account way back when was because I had about a thousand 'friends' on there....most of whom a barely knew....."

i never got facebook requests from the client base i deal with lol.. id be impressed if i did

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ladys with name tags, find a male work colleague with a Sense of humour and swap tags.

Most comments will then be "check out nigels tits!"

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By *jeeffMan
over a year ago

leeds

can't wear one my names Alf hooker

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

In pretty much every job I've had I've managed to lose, burn, leave in a drawer and generally evade wearing a name tag. I've no real problem with being identified, but just don't care much for the principle.

All of the staff know who I am and when management get a complaint about someone saying 'ey up me duck, are you all reyt?' to the president of a sister company, then they'd know it was me anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I don't wear a name badge but my name goes on official, legal letters. Some take it upon themselves to try and add me on Facebook which unnerves me somewhat but it also helps me in certain cases with investigations and have caught a few out via Facebook (as long as their profile is in the public domain) I usually decline friendship requests and block them

My name normally goes on the paperwork we give to staff along with names of other managers and supervisors and we all get that a lot, I have to decline so many facebook requests from our voulenters...I'll have briefly met the most of them but don't 'know' them really and probably won't meet them many more times...I still always feel mean declining though.

Half the reason I shut my first facebook account way back when was because I had about a thousand 'friends' on there....most of whom a barely knew.....

i never got facebook requests from the client base i deal with lol.. id be impressed if i did "

Slight generational difference perhaps?

I think that our voulenteers all think we're 'cool' cos they're mostly younger students, many from events management and music related courses who often use us to gain some experience or a foot on the door of the industry, they think the events industry is way more glam than it really is and I suppose they're just networking as it were

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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago

here and there, thereabouts


"I worked for a supermarket years ago, who decided it would be 'public friendly' to wear first names on badges. I was never happy, I was happy to be identifiable and accountable, but I felt to whom I gave my first name to was my choice.

I have an unusual first name, and we used to have a man who regularly tried to engage with female staff. One day he said 'Oh, looked at my badge and repeated my name, you wouldn't be difficult to trace'. I had my name badge changed to Mrs such and such, after much arguing with management."

When I was about 17 I had a random stranger significantly older than me turned up one evening at work and hand me a letter with my very unusual first name on (thanks to my name badge)and inside declared undying love and professed to having watched me in store and leave work before and wanting to 'get to know me better'. He had specified a time he'd be waiting for me after work, knew when I'd finish. Thankfully being a close knit workplace the guys went out when I finished and had some very specific words(no violence involved!!) and thankfully I never saw him again.he may well have been lovely and just very shy, but it Was rather unsettling though, knowing id been watched.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D "

No one can pronounce or spell my name so I find the name badge quite useful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D

No one can pronounce or spell my name so I find the name badge quite useful "

So you're not really Chad then. How disappointing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D

No one can pronounce or spell my name so I find the name badge quite useful

So you're not really Chad then. How disappointing. "

Who's actually called chad? Apart from the country of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wear an idea badge that has my surname on it, never been called by my name though.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

I refuse to wear mine in my building. It has my full name on and I work with high risk offenders.

I will happily wear it when I visit other locations or home visits, but not in my building.

I had an argument with my line manager over it, so took it up with her line manager. And won. So no one has to wear one if they don't want to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D

No one can pronounce or spell my name so I find the name badge quite useful

So you're not really Chad then. How disappointing.

Who's actually called chad? Apart from the country of course "

Well I thought you , next you'll be telling us Thundercock is made up.

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By *annGentMan
over a year ago

With a cracking view


"I hate name badges. ..

You have to lower your vision down to their boobs and I always feel compelled to say "I'm totally not casing your tits"..."

I teach on courses, knowing none of the candidates on most, and yes, the majority are female ...

So hard not to, but sometimes a good excuse ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D

No one can pronounce or spell my name so I find the name badge quite useful

So you're not really Chad then. How disappointing.

Who's actually called chad? Apart from the country of course

Well I thought you , next you'll be telling us Thundercock is made up. "

It's my mothers maiden name

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

the ones sucking up to the boss wear badges and uniform which hey bought themselves rest of us dont no point with me as they all call me mother

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By *ikkixxWoman
over a year ago

northampton

I am meant to wear one but don't as I come into contact with a lot of odd people, dont like them addressing me by my name and freaks me out that they can Google my unusual name and find out my address. Have suggested to my manager that I have a badge with my job title and a number so if there were any complaints I could be identified

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I am meant to wear one but don't as I come into contact with a lot of odd people, dont like them addressing me by my name and freaks me out that they can Google my unusual name and find out my address. Have suggested to my manager that I have a badge with my job title and a number so if there were any complaints I could be identified"

Surely you can put any name you like on the badge.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk


"In pretty much every job I've had I've managed to lose, burn, leave in a drawer and generally evade wearing a name tag. I've no real problem with being identified, but just don't care much for the principle.

All of the staff know who I am and when management get a complaint about someone saying 'ey up me duck, are you all reyt?' to the president of a sister company, then they'd know it was me anyway. "

Or someone telephoning to enquire about misplaced ordinance.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"I am meant to wear one but don't as I come into contact with a lot of odd people, dont like them addressing me by my name and freaks me out that they can Google my unusual name and find out my address. Have suggested to my manager that I have a badge with my job title and a number so if there were any complaints I could be identified

Surely you can put any name you like on the badge. "

I think you can button have to inform management and you then have to use that name at all times for traceability etc

I wear one but we are not allowed to wear it outside of work if we go out at lunchtime or goto the shops etc straight from work.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you ever get spun out by people who call you by your name?

I used to wear a name badge and would find it slightly unsettling when people would address me by my name when i hadn't introduced myself to that person..

Could be in the minority of course :D "

No I've always felt the same. Still throws me after wearing them for years and years

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By *erbyshire BobMan
over a year ago

derby

Was rather naughty a few years back with a lass who'd left her name badge on.

I addressed her by name, asking how she was and what she was up to lately.

She obviously thought I knew her and was struggling to think where.

Looking back I think I was more than a bit cruel.

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By *jandjbCouple
over a year ago

Nr Manchester

In the 80's my teenage sister worked for a well known bakery and had to wear a name badge. She usually forgot hers but was told she had to wear one. The spare one in the shop was Edna. To this day people will say "hi Edna!"

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By *moothies.Couple
over a year ago

Woodthorpe


"I refuse to wear mine in my building. It has my full name on and I work with high risk offenders.

I will happily wear it when I visit other locations or home visits, but not in my building.

I had an argument with my line manager over it, so took it up with her line manager. And won. So no one has to wear one if they don't want to. "

I turn mine around so people can't read it in these circumstances

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

I went to Thorpe Park this summer and wanted some directions to a ride. A member of staff was approaching and I tried to get his attention which at first he was oblivious too, at which point I read his name badge...hey presto!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my names on my passes for work. but its not often its on unless im at euston or milton keynes

doesnt bother me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to when I worked in a bar. Seemed like people only used my name when being patronising, sleazy or aggro so I didn't like it at all!

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