Intervention 2013 – page 8
…and somehow, it ALWAYS results in the badge being flipped backwards right when I’m supposed to have it visible.
(Historical Notes: I do this a lot less now, mostly because I like tweeting out “Overheard: [random out of context statement]” while at the con, and it’s hard to hear that kind of stuff whole listening to music. This makes conventions the only public environment where I DON’T want the rest of humanity drowned out by my protective playlist shell.)
as someone who’s had to wear a badge at work for a quarter century now, i can assure you that ALL badges anywhere are specifically designed so that they will be flipped backwards whenever anyone in authority is checking on them.
(apparently, simply printing the info on both sides of the badge would blow out the badge budget for the year. )
It’s all a massive social experiment to try and condition people into instinctively looking down and checking themselves every time they pass through a door.