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Author Topic: Name Tags Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-13-2004 12:53 PM                     We are looking for new name tags for our employees. Does anyone have any suggestions for non-engraved theater name tags? Please enclose how/where to purchase them! THANKS!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-13-2004 02:27 PM                        You could make custom nametags that include a photo ID or other picture by using the Kodak Picture Easy software: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/plus/chapter4/lesson3/part3page5.shtml http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/plus/chapter4/lesson3/part3page6.shtml As you may know, most Kodak employees have business cards with a photo on them. I always get a positive response when trading business cards with someone. I have also used the card as an ID badge.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-13-2004 02:37 PM                     Actually turns out I found what I was looking for...odd story though. I wanted a theater based name tag and we used to have some at the last theater I worked for back in Massachusetts, they were the clapstick ones. I called up my old boss and asked for the contact information - he gave me a phone number but didn't have the company name. I called the place and told them I was calling from the Strand Theater in Manitowoc WI and that I was looking for the name tags that Hollywood Hits in Danvers MA uses. The operator referred me to a sales lady who was very suprised that a company in Massachusetts was referring the theater in the companys home town to them... They are based in Manitowoc and I didn't even know. Good thing about it is that they're personally bringing over my order today, the day I called! They have two kinds of theater name tags - the Clapstick name tags and an oval nametag with a popcorn background. Both can have the theater logo put on them. Good prices too! (Must promote local companies!) Company: Cawley Company Contact Phone: 800-822-9539  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-13-2004 02:41 PM                        Try the Cawley Company as well ...  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-13-2004 02:51 PM                     Sorry Mike, wrote the wrong name... Must have been editing it at the same time as you posted!  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-13-2004 07:24 PM                    Oh well now the secret is out. I'll order some and start going to movies for free. Oh wait...I already see movies for free. Ok, do they have library name tags, too? Then I can get books for free. Oh wait...they already do that. Drat.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 02-13-2004 08:08 PM                        quote: I have also used the card as an ID badge. Which is kind of strange considering that anyone can make such cards on a computer. When I came here and wanted to open a bank account, they always wanted 2 picture IDs. They would accept my passport, but they wouldn`t accept the work visa because it was glued into the passport and therefore in their eyes not a separate ID. But they would have accepted a company or student ID which everyone can print out and laminate... So, they would have accepted a homemade ID over a work visa (which also has a picture) which is issued by the State Department after literally months of checking my data by the INS and the Embassy and which on top of that is also tied to my current job and employer. So that is basically the most secure ID you can imagine. No wonder identity theft is such a big crime here.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-16-2004 12:30 PM                        Obviously, the ID Badge would only be for informal identification, not requiring any security. I sometimes use my photo business card as a clip-on ID when teaching a course or attending trade shows. Kodak has provided secure ID badge technology and services for major events like the Olympics. My Kodak pass has a picture, encoded magnetic stripe, and a encoded RF identification module (like the "Mobil One-Pass" used to buy gasoline without needing to swipe your credit card, or the RF "rice" implants for pet ID). I haven't let them implant my ID in my body yet.  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 02-18-2004 02:20 PM                     If done right the name badges can have a classy look to them, rather than cheesy "Hello, my name is..." tags that will all disappear before the shift is over. Years ago I worked a theater that had a changeable black felt sign on a tripod that listed the staff working that day, right as you walked into the lobby. Nice.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 03:36 PM                        I've never understood the point of name tags in a retail environment. They seem tacky and "corporate" and really don't serve any useful purpose (are customers really supposed to call the employees by name?). It's kind of like waiters at restaurants who introduce themselves--unnecessary and a bit too personal for my taste. As for business cards, I haven't seen the Kodak ones, but I like the picture idea. For a company in the photographic industry, it's a classy way to promote their product. Pictures on business cards would probably be considered tacky in the software industry, however.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 06:06 PM                     I heard once that you should never have a job that requires you to wear a nametag after you are 30-years-old. I'm 41. We are supposed to answer the phone around here by saying "Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, this is Ian." But I hate it when people say, "Ian..." It feels like I'm supposed to know them. So I just say "Rialto Cinemas Lakeside." Of course the solution is to say "This is the manager" or "This is Mr. Price." But Mr. Price is my father and I'm not quite ready for that yet. I have had to wear name tags at conventions. I was once walking through a hotel lobby in Las Vegas, where I had never been before and some guy walks up to me and says "Ian Price, how are you?" like I was supposed to know him. It was because I was wearing my convention badge. Now I always tuck it in to a shirt pocket unless I need to get through a door.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 02-18-2004 06:54 PM                     If a chain uses mystery shopper reports it makes it easier to reward (or punish) those who give good (or bad) service  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-18-2004 08:11 PM                        quote: We are supposed to answer the phone around here by saying "Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, this is Ian." supposed to? don't you make the rules? is your whole staff named ian? quote: As for business cards, I haven't seen the Kodak ones, but I like the picture idea. how about picture marquees, like ian's? carl  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-19-2004 12:34 AM                        quote: As for business cards, I haven't seen the Kodak ones, but I like the picture idea. For a company in the photographic industry, it's a classy way to promote their product.  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-19-2004 12:50 AM                        The place I work now requires me to wear a little badge that identifies me as a "Style Associate". I think that I'm supposed to answer the phone with "Thank you for calling Payless, this is Gracia, how may I help you?" BUT, I never add the bit with my name, as it seems to baffle people. I do however add 'Good morning / afternoon / evening' (matched to the time of day), to the beginning of the spiel.  |  IP: Logged

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