Custom Badges
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
Yes, it is arguably one of the most famous lines of all time, despite actually being a misquote from a line in the 1948 Humphrey Bogart film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. However, the original line -- which was "Badges!? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" -- has been repeated or spoofed countless times on television and in film, first on The Monkees and in Blazing Saddles and more recently on Law and Order: Trial by Jury and in the Transformers cartoon series.
It certainly is a popular catch-phrase. Pity it's not true when it comes to the real world. You probably don't realize it yet, but if you're an executive or a upper-level professional, you probably really do need those "stinkin' badges" after all. No, not police badges -- custom badges designed specially for your company, institution or organization.
According to the website for Oak Tree Data, a identification badge and security card firm located near Placerville, California, there are countless uses for custom badges. For example, businesses can use them as photo ID cards for employees, health plan or payroll cards or visitor passes. Schools can use them as student ID cards, library cards, meal cards, bus passes and even extracurricular activity membership cards. Custom badges can also be useful as press credentials, volunteer worker name tags, parking garage passes or even luggage tags. In fact, the possible uses for custom badges are virtually infinite.
Best of all, these products can now easily be ordered over the Internet. There are literally hundreds of companies, like Oak Tree Data, who offer custom badges online. While specific items and commands differ from company to company and website to website, here's basically how it works. Once he or she sets up an account, a customer can determine the size, shape, appearance and text of the custom badge he or she wants to order. This is all done through an online template that will even allow an individual to upload information and/or pictures directly to the manufacturer. A few mouse-clicks later and the custom badges are completed, bought, paid for, and soon to be on their way to the client!