From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!wb2!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!coletti
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Backwards Badges - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1378
Posted: Tue Jan 25 18:26:37 1983
Received: Fri Jan 28 07:14:32 1983

#R:ixlpc:-21400:uiucdcs:10600031:000:677
uiucdcs!coletti    Jan 25 15:46:00 1983

    At NASA/Ames research center almost everyone wore their badges
clipped to their pockets, facing inwards, with the actual badge inside
the pocket.  The only ones who consistently made a point of wearing
them correctly were the new high school and college slaves who wanted to
impress themselves and their friends.  Perhaps everyone else felt that it
violated their body space or something.

    Every now and then the Marine guards (who wore their badges) would
happen upon us, and tell us to wear them.

    The only time a person HAD to wear it was in restricted areas,
and that ended the fun (maybe that's why they weren't worn elsewhere?).


			- a former college slave