Bell Labs was an informal place, but sometime in the early to mid 1980s, a new policy was instituted: employees had to wear their badges at all times. This was undoubtedly a sensible precaution to discourage interlopers, but it wasn’t popular. Asaprotest, one colleague, who will remain nameless here, stuck his badge to his forehead with super-glue; another took to wearing it clipped to the hair on his chest, revealing it only upon demand.
