From replacing the standard magnetic backing clips with ultra powerfull Rare Earth ones that'll scramble any electronics contained in the badge...
To some smart engineering type building a "clear plastic ID holder" with nano wires embedded inside it turning it into a Faraday Cage...
To people simply clipping it to a jacket pocket & leaving it in their cube while roaming about with a photo-only hunk of plastic affixed to their shirt...
To "workplace accidents" with cards getting caught in the paper shredder...
Or BOFH's like myself whom clip it to a tiny R/C QuadCopter & make the Tracking & Monitoring data a giant jumble of worthless crap...
("It says here that he just went down the elevator shaft!"
So? Employees use elevators all the time.
"The elevator is going UP, he's going DOWN, and doing it at nearly 200MPH!"
Oh crap! Call 9-1-1!)
Besides, they'll have to have a way of determining when the employee enters a bathroom.
It's illegal for them to track you in such locations, and if the employee can prove their employer was *actively recording* them in such situations, said employer will end up against the wall with a pack of rabbid lawyers baying for their bowels.
So imagine the "fun" the employer has when suddenly "all the employees" get up & go potty en masse.
(One employee passed a note around saying "At 9AM sharp, head for Fred's desk & leave your badge there. Fred will take them into the bathroom & give everyone a ten minute smoke break. At 9:10, come back to Fred's desk & claim your badge.")
Since nobody *said* anything, Management won't know of the plan, and Fred probably is smart enough to have destroyed the note.
Recording everything you say, every person you talk to, every step you take, every move you make, everything?
That makes 1984 look like a free and open society by comparison.
"It'll let us know whom actively participates in meetings!"
I'm the kind of person whom takes notes.
So all your badge will show is me being very quiet, moving very little, and merely "writing a lot".
Am I not being productive?
Because I'll be one of the few people others can go to for a transcription of the meeting to find out WTF just happened.
And if you try to *penalize* me for merely taking notes, I'll make a complete 180 & become THE most active participant...
To the point where you have to call Security to remove me in a vain attempt to get anything done.
You want to know when I move away from my desk, where I go, whom I talk to, what I talk about, and everything else?
Too bad.
I work as a Programmer and all I DO all day is sit at my desk, pounding out code by the hour, drinking soda, listening to mp3's, and Getting My Work Done.
I go to the bathroom to empty my bowels, go to the break room to refill my soda, and then leave the building to go for lunch.
Otherwise your badge will claim I'm a lump that never goes, says, or does anything.
And if that makes me unproductive, then how about I take those 500K lines of code I just wrote & sell them to your competition?
We'll see how valuable my work really is, shall we?
Morale will dive, productivity will plummet, and Management won't have a f4ing clue as usual.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
Fine, and the vandalism to your car will continue until the badges go away. |
