When did you first wear a lanyard?

[IndianaMoleWoman]

Just chatting with DH. We now have a lanyard tub in our drawer of crap for our various work/volunteering position lanyards.

Thinking back to childhood (80s/90s) I don’t remember anyone wearing a lanyard. When did you first wear a lanyard? Is anyone lanyard-free in the year 2019? They seem a relatively recent thing but being made partially from plastic and so frequently binned I can’t see them being around when my pre-school children enter the workforce. What will replace lanyards as ID in the future?

Apologies for the incredibly boring topic on a warm Saturday evening.

I'm lanyard free at work, only ever had one for going to watch F1 as it saved faff when going back to our seats. So probably 2008 the first time ?

I’m a teacher and I don’t wear/have a lanyard. Never have

My previous corporate job (from 2009-13).
Jobs prior to that were smaller companies, as is my current job.

Have put them on when visiting school as a governor in the daytime.

They itch my neck, so glad I don't have them all the time.

Previous office you needed them to get to and from the toilets, and could get 'stranded' on landings having to bang on the glass like a lemon.

I think the first one I had was at V97. They used to give them out with the stage times on when you went in. Suspect you have to pay for them now at most festivals!

Think I first wore one for work in about 2004.

As a stay at home mum for the last 7 years I haven’t needed one. Never needed one in my previous jobs. Although if I help out at my DC school I have to wear one as a visitor (they give it to you).

2003 when changed jobs.
Not allowed to wear them now (work in healthcare) as they dangle and could have infection control issues, so we have to clip the credit card sized ID holder onto uniform. Need to swipe card to get into car park and certain departments.

2001 as call centre staff. I most recently wore one as a teacher in 2012.

Youngandfree I find that really surprising. In my school it’s part of the safeguarding policy that everyone wears a lanyard.

We had to wear one in my high school in the US, the students in the UK not have to wear them? I’m visually impaired, so I wouldn’t notice something like this. But I’m just curious. I was in high school at the time of the Columbine shootings, so everybody had to wear ID.

Probably early 2000s.
As to the future, well even now, people are being microchipped

I’m a teacher (Uk) and I’ve had a lanyard for about 10 years. I had one before that for Barbershop Competitions.

Although I don’t really see how lanyards for teachers helps safeguarding - everyone knows the full time teacher’s anyway...

I wore one for work in the early/mid 1980's. Two separate jobs, both very security-conscious (for entirely different reasons); you could either have a lanyard or clip the ID badge on instead.

@IndianaMoleWoman yep I teach In Ireland ( I don’t know any schools here that have lanyards) and I also taught in the Uk from 2008-2013 and never had a lanyard there either.

As a uni student (2011) I got one with student ID and I also kept my memory stick on it. I get one every time I visit my dd1s school for meetings with my visitor ID.

In the UK, do teachers have to wear them what students don’t?

I’m really curious now. The US, at least when I was at school, was very strict about who could be on campus and if you didn’t have an ID card around your neck, you wouldn’t be allowed or you would be in trouble if you were a student. My school didn’t have a metal detector, but I think many do now. I was at a residential school for several years, and even then, you couldn’t go on campus without going through the security checks, not a body search or anything, but they would ask who you were, why you were going, who you were going to visit, and I think they used to call the dorm or the school depending on who it was. They were very strict.

Hellokittymania I don’t know if any schools that require students to wear lanyards. I assumed most US high school mass shootings were conducted by students already in attendance at the school so I can’t see how it would make much difference in terms of security. What is the idea behind it?

The first time I wrote one would have been about 2001/2002 for a promotional event at work.

Never wore one in the US high school I went to and when I returned ten years to teach only the substitute teachers and security wrote them.

I'm supposed to wear one at work but never do because my neck breaks out in a rash whenever I wear the thing.

I think I had one in 1994 and I have had my current one since 2009!
They really are ubiquitous now though aren't they?

Hellokittymania we’ve cross posted.

I don’t know of any UK schools with metal detectors or lanyards for students. Perhaps it’s because students are quite easily identified by the fact they are wearing a uniform? Although I suppose anyone with malicious intent could get hold of a uniform, our students just wander on site and are registered at 8.20. They tend to start arriving at around 7.30 so now I think about it that’s quite a long time for unmanned gates to be open for anyone to wander in, but we’ve never had any issues so far.

I have never worn one.

I didn’t wear one until I started my first office job in in 2005. I wore it for about half an hour, then it went in my bag and that’s where all future lanyards have lived since.

I (quite irrationally) hate them, and my employer recently sent round an email warning of the danger of wearing them while driving which has made me even more wary. Bring on their successor, whatever it is.

I have to wear one.

Leaving care support worker.

1999, I needed a key to get anywhere with work, but it was specific to my (and my bosses) work area, so I had to buy work clothes with pockets.
2001, I know I had to click in and out electronically, but cant remember how.
2002 - lanyard.

Not in the UK, my 4 year old needed a lanyard for school

Wow, what a question for a Saturday night!

I had to wear one at my temp job out of uni at the local council. And then had to wear one at the 2 schools I worked in. I'm at a different school now and a few people wear them but most don't.