We received new badges at 1 Bryant park, nyc. They have micro chips. Anyone know why ? Did any other offices get them ?
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They have their heads so far up their own azzes, how the heck can they be expected to read some report like this?
They will lose 3 hours of productivity off me a day with badge in/out.
Guess I might as well sit there and play video games on my personal phone all day.
Are they really that stupid?
(yea, thought so. They are just copying Emperor-Has-New-Clothes Jamie. Not an original thought in their little Fleet pea brains)
Yup! It’s true they will now track swipe outs for all the people who have abused collaboration by swiping in and turning around swiping out and going home to finish the day!! Hahaha. It started here in Cleveland
@fa+1jk6x2fqr - insane is thinking they don't watch your every move. If you worked for internal security like me, you definitely wouldn't be so naïve HAHAHAHAHA
Rumor at one site it’s the new entry ways they are putting in have an amplified antenna to clock you leaving since you don’t have to swipe. I know of a few sites that have them and if you have to swipe your badge on top and not on the front, those have the antenna.
Still insane that people think they track you via your badge.. they can easily see where you work and how many hours you’re remote vs in office.
At one time our location had a public area on the first floor and we started to have a theft problem on the upper floors.
They required us to wear our badges somewhere visible at all times.
We had people who would dress like bank employees and lift laptops and personal items off of desks.
I still have an old badge from OBP and another from 50 Rock that both have chips - they are from 20+ years ago.
Never mattered. Chip didn't "do" anything except ensure more secure entry (more difficult to make a fake)
There were no reports pulled off me going in and out.
But if they want to see all the weekends I work, maybe they can pay me for that too now.
(I think you give them credit for being more sophisticated than they actually are.)
You want to treat me like I am working at the Gap, then I will treat you like you are the Gap.
My manager (or anyone else) questions me over 8 hours a day, and I’ll be setting the automated email responses for no contact expected after 5:00pm M-F and weekends. Gone will be the 11:30pm email responses before I go to bed, and 6:00am urgent responses with my coffee.
For sake of discussion, let's say 2/18 is a real thing. The names would already be etched in stone. So what someone does WRT attendance in the next two weeks will have no bearing on who's names are on the 2/18 list.
cz+1jk6x2fqr When nothing happens on 2/18 what's the new date you guys are gonna push down our throats?
@cz+1jk6x2fqr sounds like they work for HR lol. Nice try
My manager pinged me the first week of the new badge asking me why I wasn't spending 8 hours a day in the office. He said he could only give me one verbal and one written warning and then it's a termination.
Just FYI - be careful out there and don't forget about 2/18. BIG layoffs - don't get caught up in that because you're spending less than 8 hours a day at the office!
Flagscape article dated March 2024 about the latest tech with the new badges. We’ve had new badges about location for six months.
it looks like debit card but surprisingly doesn't have any money in it....so sad
In the olden days I was on a classified project where you had to wear your badge on your shirt pocket or collar so it would be visible along with your face to the TV cameras. RFID is a more subtle version of that.
Spot on. hard to find RFID blocking sleeve on Amazon. Price is skyrocket due to BofA move.
Probably going to have RFID readers all over the building(s), so they can track everyone's every move. Get a RFID-blocking sleeve.
They look like EMV chipa
Don't worry they will be tracking you even more now :)