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.

2015 - working in a high school.

I started about 8 years ago, i work in a train station so have to have my ID card on view at all times.

You do need to zoom in rather but there are some vintage lanyards on these Guides practicing to provide emergency help after a Zeppelin* raid. Possibly this isn’t one where Girlguiding will feel a need to highlight being ahead of the curve, but you never know

• Should anyone be feeling super-pedantic am aware Schütte-Lanze airships were also used. But given people at the time called them Zeppelin Raids...

I refuse to. I carry my pass, I don't need a bloody lanyard irritating me.

FE College here, mandatory that all students wear their lanyard and also staff.

Student/staff ID card is needed to gain entry to all buildings and we are a cashless college so monies and bursary all have to go on card.

That said its a right pain getting students to wear them at all times.

All schools I visit, all staff wear lanyards and Local Authority staff and other external support agencies all wear lanyards

MarieVanGoethem I love these! Surely they are among the first lanyard wearers. I wonder what they were made of?

2003 I think.

Previous job to that was a wee shit company. The job I started in 1999 I just had a magnetic strip clocking in card for my Flexi time, and my name on my lab coat

I'd still have one now but I prefer the belt clip extendy reel things.

I wear one when volunteering at school.
I wear one at my other volunteer job.

DH wears one all the time for work. No idea when he started wearing one.

They seem to have crept in. It’s normal now for everyone to wear ID like a label. So weird when you think of it.

Had to order lanyards when organising an event in about 2008... I had no idea what they were!
I certainly know now, and have worn one for work for years.

DobbyTheHouseElk I was in a queue in Tesco one night this week at about 6pm and everyone had one on, which for me talking about them to DH, which led to this thread.

We have them where I work but we only wear them because they are ones which come off as soon as they are pulled. Ones that don't aren't safe IMO.

I started my job nearly fifteen years ago. We did have a 'pass' but you weren't expected to wear it or anything. The lanyard thing kicked in about five or six years ago and now it's a disciplinary offence not to wear one.

All the teachers at dc's school have them. The women wear them around their necks and the men keep them in their pockets from what I've seen. They need them to open the doors/gates so need to have them on them.

My current job is the only 1 where I have to wear a lanyard, though I usually wrap it round a belt loop as I don't like the cotton round my nevk, plus the pass gets in the way

Forgot to say my pass gets me access to the building and weirdly it's linked to the photocopiers so we don't have to log on every time, just press the pass against electronic magnet

Funny you should say that, I was in Sainsburys this week in the queue, and realised loads of people were wearing them too. It struck me then how odd it is to be labelled constantly.

DobbyTheHouseElk my inner conspiracy theorist (I was obsessed with Fox Mulder as a 90s teen!) wonders where all this lanyard-wearing is ultimately taking us...

It would be practical to wear one because we, as students and staff, need an ID card for security reasons as well as access to all classrooms but no one wears a lanyard. My personal reason for not wearing one is that it irritates the back of my neck but I suspect that most don't wear theirs because it looks uncool.

2003, but that was in a sensitive area.

Lanyards are considered to be both a hygiene and a potential choking/strangulation hazard and have now been banned where I work. We have gone back to clips. (More lost bloody ID cards)

Never had one. There was talk of our office building introducing them I was disproportionately excited but it never happened.

Sorry our building was going to introduce photographic ID, hence the need for lanyards.

1999 when I worked for a bank.

IndianaMoleWoman
The ideal was to knot one yourself, using something called Plater’s Line, though for some of the time they were part of uniform you could purchase them from Headquarters.

I have a 4-colour one made from embroidery thread that has my Guide whistle on. Knotting it took... a considerable amount of time. Quite soothing though, when you get into the swing of it. I think I have it with me* but atm I cannot get to it as I’m stuck between IVs going into my midline & my cardiac monitor...

*accidentally, it was in bag that ended up in hospital with me, not a deliberate choice!

It's policy at work to wear ID. None of us do. I've never worn a lanyard or my badge.