security

[llywela]

So one of the things about heightened security and the NATO conference this week is that we've been told we have to wear our ID badges openly, where they can be seen, as the police are likely to be challenging people wandering around what are deemed to be sensitive areas. So that means wearing my ID card on a lanyard around my neck, instead of carrying it around in my pocket as I usually do. As a result, I have discovered just how often I tap my pocket to check that I've not lost my card - all the time, apparently, so I keep scaring myself because it isn't there at the moment! The other downside is that our lanyards are all branded as Information Services, which is the old name for our department that doesn't exist any more, because we were dissolved and reformed into two new departments earlier in the summer. So not only am I now branded, I am branded as obsolete!