I have just received my new work ID badge and am depressed

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The photograph of me on it is horrible. Or maybe I just am horrible. I look awful, bleached, mis-shapen, disproportionate, Scottish, old, bereft of anything remotely resembling humanity. I look like someone who doesn't have long to live. Roll on Friday.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

When you say you look Scottish does that mean you have ginger hair, white skin with millions of freckles and you're wearing a kilt and clutching a bottle of Irn Bru?

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

he means he looks drunk.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

where do you work, Marcello? have you become a prison officer?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Work IDs are horrible. They are mocking reminders of our wage slavery, the visual equivalent of some little lacky screeching "YOU'RE JUST THE SAME AS MEEEE, HEE HEE HEEEE!!!" in a horrible, shrill voice. The fact that your picture is bad, however, should be taken as a badge of honor -- it means you recongnized in advance the horror of having your photo taken for such a debased purpose, and refused to play along by looking presentable.

Good for you!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael not all Scottish people are drunks, we invented that stereotype to keep the English away, coz they canny handle their drink.....hic...

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like one of my badges, but the other one looks like somone dipped the ugly stick in yellow and beat me to death with it and the threatened me to hold one eye closed.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I think work ids are meant to look terrible, to crush the spirits and make you think you can never do any better than that particular workplace.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

hahah, no plinky, it just means i look even more like ken stott than i already dreaded :-(

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

See, the trick is to bat your eyelashes and flirt gently with the security guy wielding the camera. Then he'll let you view your photo and, if you disapprove, he'll take another and another and another until you come up with one where you look like Princess Grace.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

White sweater + my hair was really, really short + white background-- I look like a ghost, you can only see about half my face.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

it was a woman wielding the camera.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

my work id pictures have evolved horribly over the last seven years. in the current one i look all fuzzy and hung over.

i wonder how much of this change is attributable to my increased dissatisfaction with my chosen career path.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Scottish != a pejorative descriptor.

― david h (david h), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway - you ARE!

― david h (david h), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

only in part. and it's the wrong part.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurrah for not actually having to wear my staff ID. The students here aren't so lucky, their ID cards have to be in badge holders worn around their necks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Last year my college pic was really miserable as my policy used to be not to smile for these things because you risk looking dumber. So this year I decided to grin widely and I'm pleased with the result, now I want all my photos to be smiley.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

B-but Marcello, from your name you sound so swarthy and Italian! No?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh Marcello it is JUST a picture. Those pictures are s'posed to make you look bad. ;-) A friend once said looking at a pic of me in a magazine: Don't think you look nicer, you just look like that in real life. Only models can look better in pictures. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

well the other part of me is italian, but again it's the wrong part.

two questions for nath:

1) what magazine was this?

2) am i swarthy?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not Nath, but you are not swarthy.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

no i didn't think i was. personally i consider this a good thing.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 07:25 (twenty-three years ago)

You should do what someone here did, Marcello.....bring a flattering pic of yourself from home and stick it over the top of the other one.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

there are no flattering pics of me anywhere. i have never photographed well.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

me = also part Italian, but it's the invisible part. And I'd rather look like Ken Stott than PJ from big brother's less healthy sibling.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

seni seviyoruummm

― ismet gulmez, Sunday, 4 April 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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