Name badge
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kawette -
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My employer wants to force me to wear a name badge (first name only). do they have the right?
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Personally I think he has the right to do so.
The real question is: why does it bother you so much?
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It seems to me that, in the name of my individual freedoms, I must have the right to refuse.
I work in a sector where conflicts are frequent.
Until now, customers have directed their verbal abuse at my company and not at me.- It seems to me that, in the name of my individual liberties, I should have the right to refuse.
I hardly see why.
The first name is, I think, not to be considered as "private" information.
Moreover, if a client complains, it is useful for him to be able to identify the person, and for your boss as well.
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Hello, can someone answer my question precisely?
Are we required to wear a name badge (first and last name) in the retail sector?
For my part, I work as a saleswoman in a non-food self-service store; my employer wants to oblige me to wear this badge as well as the other 12 employees. I would like to oppose it to keep my anonymity with customers. Just the first name doesn’t bother me, but I find the family name to be an invasion of privacy, because address and phone number can be found with these details... Please guide me. -
Didn’t you see it at DARTY or at BUT?! And many others too!
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I don’t know, but for example at the public treasury, the staff who answer the calls are required to give their last name.
Knowing that Miss and Mrs. are now both merged into “Madam.” -
You have to put a fake name!
Customers won’t check if it’s your real name!
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I think just the first name, he’s entitled to that.
Otherwise, if you start laying out your whole life on the badge, that’s surely when you can refuse.
After all, why is it embarrassing?
Do you prefer your client to call you Suzanne or: "The old blonde with glasses."-
- Badges with the employee’s first name, or even the employee’s full name, of sales staff or public service officers are distributed to every worker in contact with customers or users.
This measure isn’t new but was initiated more than 20 years ago by a certain Laurent Fabius, Prime Minister.
Several objectives are pursued: among others that “Hortense,” a saleswoman or a nurse, is more identified with the company to which she belongs and therefore bears responsibility for what goes on and especially for what doesn’t.
This lifting of anonymity, which has been ongoing for 20 years, meets resistance; some people cannot stand their first name, already, and do not want to see it displayed on their chest, indeed there is the fact that the “person in charge” of a situation created by the company comes out of anonymity to serve as a scapegoat on occasion.
And then there can be sarcasm, aggression, and also making it easier to find a particular employee with whom there are scores to settle.
If we want to put the badge away, it’s better to act collectively...
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Hi,
when I was working in a call center we were allowed to use a pseudonym instead of our real name, maybe it’s possible to negotiate this kind of thing with your employer.
see you
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I work in a retirement home, in the kitchen. The director obliges us to wear a badge with our first and last name and department. I’m trying to find out whether she can force us to put our family name. I think that’s personal information, and what about our religion, or our political beliefs. And what about the poor guy named Jean Cule or Gerard Mansoif.
