Some laws are written in black and white.  There are also agreements that remain unwritten.  One could argue following these codes will get you much further.

While “corporate code” is unique to each company, rest assured every company has a code by which the employees go about their work and interact with their peers, vendors, and customers. In some cases this code is well thought out and in others it has just developed over time. What are your company codes and are they positively or negatively impacting your work environment and your bottom line?

When is the best time to get yelled at for stuff relating to ID Badges?

Not all of us get to take “the helicopter” to work.  In our office, cars are the preferred choice.  Badge Express is “conveniently located” right off I-95 (which is good, really) just a few miles north of busy downtown Fort Lauderdale.  There are certain cities that have a reputation for bad driving and lengthy traffic jams.  Most of us would think New York or Los Angeles  – while Fort Lauderdale may not even enter your mind.  However, we’ve topped the list @ numero uno for bad driving according to CNBC.com.

Before I let you in on who’s doing all the yelling and getting so riled over id badges…

Think about this…You wake up earlier in the morning than you would if you were on a dream vacation in some exotic part of the wold most of us workers can only dream of as we look at pictures in the office — only to head off to work.  You work because you have bills to pay, mouths to feed, cars to maintain, family members to bail out and to hopefully some day — to be happily retired with the wonderful opportunity to live every day to the fullest for you, doing what you’ve always wanted to do — whatever than may be.

Did you know, it’s not uncommon for prisoners to daydream or fantasize about “life on the outside” — even when they still have multiple years still to serve?  They’re not alone!  Based on conversations I’ve had with those of us in and out of this office, fantasizing about “another life” is no less common “here on the outside.”

Life can be hard, but we all do what we can to make it the best we know how:

After the alarm clock violently severs you from your dreams and you’re forced out of your bed to face the cold realities of daily life, starting with everything you have to face right in your own home — the last thing most of us fantasize about it making it out the front door, being subjected to a jaw clenching, gut wrenching morning hazing as you drive to work only to be greeted with a merciless bevy of insult laden belittling foul breathed hot air from those that love you the most — you kinful trusted co-workers.  While that type of thing may happen at other offices, part of the code of Badge Express is the idea of a decompression chamber.

If you can imagine this:

As you enter the office senses still hurting from the nerve grating journey — you are uplifted instantly.  The new feeling would be best described as if you entered a gentle cavernous womb any self-respecting mother would envy.  The stress from your drive and the rest of life melts away as you are greeted with a chair comfortable beyond imagination that warmly embraces you as a team of expert massage therapists and aroma therapists create a desirable and addictive opium den like feeling, rendering everything you went through to get there seem as if it were the smallest of small tariffs.  As you are wheeled into your own luxury suite complete with a bar, staff that gets all the work done on time — without ever upsetting any customers or making mistakes — every, you know it’s ok to relax a little.  You’re at home — work is now the ultimate utopia.  There is nowhere else that you would even bother to imagine being as it couldn’t even come close to the utopia you get to put yourself Monday – Friday 9-5.

No, that’s not what actually happens in our office, but:

One of the unspoken codes we all honor in Badge Express is to at least give each other the time, space and freedom to decompress a bit before bringing up anything work related in the mornings — good, bad or ugly.  We all know what it takes to make it in to work in the morning.  We all have lives, bills, troubles, challenges and all of the stuff that just about every one else in the world is faced with.  We know that sometimes life is perfect, giving you roses in the morning and chocolate at night before bed – and other times it’s…well, not so nice.  But all the time, we honor what you’ve been through to get to where you are and we embrace the secret “Decompression Chamber” code in our office.