(Wedding/Paris updates coming soon, I promise! I’ve been busy at the Ottawa Linux Symposium this week.)
While I was gone, work replaced our old employee ID cards (magstripe for access control, visual ID at the front desk) with proximity cards and front-door turnstiles, since another company is going to be sharing some building space with us. That’s fine (and maybe even “better”, because the visual-ID thing never really sat right with me), but today the security folks sent mail to all staff talking about the new system, and included a list of how to treat the new ID badges. Highlights:
- Do not expose to extreme heat or open flame
- Do not machine wash
- Do not use as an ice scraper or scraping tool
- Do not pound with a pen or other tool
- Do not bite
…bite?
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You’d be surprised what people chew on that’s non-food.
“Do not behave as if you are living in a postapocalyptic anarchy and this ID card is your only means of procuring food and shelter.”
What, you don’t bite your new ID card to make sure it’s really plastic?
Laugh all you want but I actually bite my ATM card. I’m standing in line holding things in one hand, I dig into my pocket and pull out the stack of cards I have in there, shuffle them a bit with one hand, find my ATM card, hold it with my teeth, stuff the rest back in my pocket.