Photo ID Cards

[Pat Ostman]

I read in the courier a month ago about a chap that has not been issued with his ID card yet. IB wrote the reply and asked them to get in touch as he should have had it a few months after he started.

Now after 15 months (and have given up asking the line manager) I still have not been issued with a swipe/ID card (needed to actually get IN the sorting office). If I contact IB then my Manager will know its me and I fear for the future.

How important are these ID cards and will the Manager get a bollocking for not arranging it? Anyone else waiting this long?

[DGP1]

Mine is in my locker, that way it's always there if someone wants to see it.

BTW I only got mine about a year ago after only 6 years

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Mine is in my locker, that way it's always there if someone wants to see it.

BTW I only got mine about a year ago after only 6 years

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[redhand]

Been waiting 13 months for mine!

[IWW Fellow Worker]

In our office, everyone has a photograph of the 'managers' right eye on the card where their mugshot should be.

[Pinky 1]

We all had them about a year ago. Wearing them didn't last a month ! Local manager's have never enforced the wearing of these ID badges, and everybody here just considers it another waste of money. I still wear mine, albeit backwards, so it shows my name and not my photograph.
You see, i aint too pretty .......

[slave]

Most people in our office were issued with them quite a while back; had it round my neck the first week after it was issued - with the card tucked in the shirt pocket as it kept getting in the way.. Never bothered after that and nobody has ever said anything about it, I keep it handy, just in case someone wants to look!

[montriff]

I have never had one ,just the gold badge and i don't wear that since the clip broke and no one has ever mentioned it

[Stormproof]

How things have changed, used to get disciplined if your badge was'nt worn and fined if you lost it.

[lekker]

Ain't got one - don't want one

[dave7634]

Use mine with the name bit showing and also scan the barcode to program the PDA when I use them. Saves typing in the name as mine is a bloody long one.

[Pat Ostman]

Ain't got one - don't want one

Problem is for me I need it to get though the gate in the morning/when I come back.

[Stormproof]

Use mine with the name bit showing and also scan the barcode to program the PDA when I use them. Saves typing in the name as mine is a bloody long one.

Did'nt realise you could scan them with the PDA, thanks for that, I've got a long name aswell

[tiredwalker]

Never had mine on cord round neck as it kept falling off, but always carry in pocket. never been asked for id in any offices I've visited so only use it to scan on pda.

[Quiet but strong]

Ive been in the job for about 8 months now. I still havent got one. I think someone must have asked about them one day just before xmas, as they came round taking photos of everyone. Its been another 4 months but still not seen any hint of an ID card.
Nobody in our place wears them anyway. Its a bit slack there tbh. Even on my days off, wearing jeans and a t-shirt im allowed to just wonder in and start sorting through my D2D's at my frame. Noone ever challenges me!