Absolutely hilarious (I think, anyways...)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I done that before. But once, when I was on the Cart Crew at Walmart. Well, since I came on, I was the second guy on carts. So I was an Assistant Manager of Carts.

That's a good one.

I, however, prefer the term "Cart procurement and retrieval specialist". But that is too long to fit on a nametag.

[Linda]

At my local cinema, they have spare nametags for people who forget theirs. Their usual tags have both first and surname on, and the spares are no different.

So far I've spotted:

Erin Brockovich
Peter Parker
Clark Kent
James Kirk
Bruce Wayne
Dorothy Gale
Jack Sparrow

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Half the time, I forget to put my nametag on . . . it's usually buried in the bottom of my purse.

Only time anyone says anything to me about it is if we're expecting company. Otherwise, nobody thinks to say anything to me.

And no, it doesn't stop customers from asking THE question. I can have it on and I'll still have customers asking me . . .

As for whether that can get a person fired, I have yet to see it happen.

[Sylvia727]

Right after I got hired, corporate did a sweep of our bakery and decreed that nametags must be worn at all times. So two guys, Scott and Dan, switched tags and stayed switched. Everyone else called them by their right names, and they were both so Anglo that corporate didn't notice. One night I was working with Scott and I kept calling him Dan. I was new, and I had just met 40 people. I was reading the nametags. Scott was polite about it, never letting on that Dan wasn't his name, until my trainer called him Scott. I was so embarrassed.

[Sparky]

At my local cinema, they have spare nametags for people who forget theirs. Their usual tags have both first and surname on, and the spares are no different.

So far I've spotted:

Erin Brockovich
Peter Parker
Clark Kent
James Kirk
Bruce Wayne
Dorothy Gale
Jack Sparrow

That's terrrible!

It's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow!

[Pagan]

At my last job a chap made a name badge titled 'angel', took about 6 months for a sup to realise!

There are PLENTY of guys named Angel.

Yeah, got bunches of 'em here, too. With the Spanish pronounciation.

James Kirk

That's terrrible!

It's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow!

You beat me to it, but you forgot Capt. James T. Kirk!

[Linda]

I'm usually full blown SC when I see them. Call them "captain" Heheheh.

Luckily I know a lot of the cinema guys so they don't roll their eyes at me!

[mariamousie1]

My mom once went to Lee Valley and her cashier was a man who's nametag said "Anne". Maybe it was the same situation? Or that guy was just really self-confident.

[Crazeyal]

Name tags??

[smileyeagle1021]

not really name tag related but it was hella funny what one of my coworkers did at the movie theatre i worked at. We still used the old fashioned theatre signs (the ones you had to put the letters into, not the electric scrollboard ones) and one day he put on the back side of one of the theatre signs (you could see it walking out of the theatre, but managers never checked back there) saying "for a good time call (and his phone number)"
oh did he get in trouble when the manager finally did notice it three weeks later.

[justZu]

Back in the dark ages, when I was a teenager working at McD's I would wear my nametag upside down. Whenever a customer would notice and say something I would look down at it and say "Nope, its OK I can read it just fine". I remember thinking this was hilarious. I'm surprised I didn't get into trouble for being a smartass. I guess customers had a sense of humor way back then.