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.

2000. Attended a major sporting event and you got one with the tickets. I had never heard the word “lanyard” before and thought it sounded really odd. Also around that time first started visiting the States for work and then it became a normal thing.

2001 when I started work for the NHS. Never heard the word lanyard until about 10 years later though. We used to call them ribbons!!

I work in a school for complex needs and we have colour coded lanyards for safeguarding (staff, agency, students, visitors). We have hundreds of staff so it does help identify who people are.

1980s. My dad though, not me. Everybody in the department had them. Passes for a (very) secure site though that had to be visible at all times

I've had one from about 2002 in various jobs.

"I think I first wore one at reading festival in about 1998"

Oh yes! And glastonbury too

My first was at a festival, and I’ve had one for every job since.

Worked for IBM in Chiswick in1972 and we had to wear them then, with your photo on it too.

I hate lanyards. I really like clothes and don’t like being obliged to wear something around my neck that doesn’t go with what I’m wearing. I know that sounds outrageously fussy but there you go.

I have to wear a security pass for work, though, so I have it on a little clippy thing that goes on my waistband.

I first had one in 2006 when I was a student and haven't needed once since

In 2000. I was working at the HQ of a water company. They had a chip and PIN thingy in them too. You had to have one to get into the building and could have extra permits incorporated like access to the server room or the control room. It also allowed for deductions from your salary to pay for food in the canteen.

I work in events so we have hundreds of lanyards and badge holders in the cupboard at work. We've moved away from the plastic badge holders and just clipping the lanyard directly onto the badge itself

I was supply teaching through the 2000s and some schools used them increasing with time.

They are irritatingly flappy, being short they dangle around somewhere near my navel, but at least they can be worn with anything. I have had clippy badge holders which are OK with trousers but often incompatible with dresses.

At the DCs school, staff wear them. Visitors get a sticker. It rarely lasts 15 mins before it starts peeling and curling into my hair.

Conference lanyards in the mid 1990’s.

I’ve been wearing one since 2015 when I was 18 - here all public servants have to. I’ve only just stopped this year after taking a role in the private sector.

I don’t wear one at all, only wore one for a couple of years between 2010 and 2012 when I worked in a college. Horrible things.

We’ve had them in my school probably for the last ten years-we need them to get in and out of the external doors more than for identification.

1996, call centre job

I wear one so i can get into the building and dont have a problem with it. It has a quick release hook so no strangulation. It lives draped round the gearstick in my car so i dont forget it and dont wear it in the car.

First time would have been around the Millennium. I worked as a contractor with a large multinational who were obsessed by security and so had different passes with different levels of access. As I was dumped on their doorstep by my employer with barely any instructions and the person from my company who was supposed to set me up with my ID badge and desk hadn't bothered to do so, I was all at sea. Long story short, I wound up with a 'fake' company name (actually the correct name of the company I worked for but officially we were on site under the umbrella of another company) and one of the highest level of access you could have along with a red lanyard denoting this. I was there for 12 months and got completely used to being treated like royalty all because of my red ribbon. I only wish my salary matched my access all areas badge.

Currently, I wouldn't be able to get into our building without an ID badge as I have an early start and reception doesn't open for an hour after I've started my shift. All doors leading onto our floor are secured via a swipe pad as we deal in sensitive data such a people's personal and financial information so tracking who has accessed what is very important. More to show that we take the likes of data protection and GPDR seriously for the industry regulators than any misbehaviour by myself or my colleagues.

My lanyard is around my neck all day but I'd never wear it on my commute - there's a front pocket on my shoulder bag where it lives when I'm not actually in work.

I have one for work it has my pass in it to get me into the building and through the locked internals doors. It also has my photo and name on it but I keep it turned round as I don’t necessarily want all customers to know my name, if they ask for my name I’ll tell them. We don’t have to have a lanyard we also have the option of a clip with extendable wire? But I like my lanyard.

My dd’s school told us they could buy a lanyard but I think the idea of it was that they could put their door passes in it to make it easier getting through the locked doors. I don’t think anyone uses them and it’s not compulsory. The door pass just has their name on it no photo ID or anything.

Lanards irritate the back of my neck and annoy me when the pass gets stuck between me and my desk. I wear a clip with an extending wire instead

I think 1998 when I worked at a university - i don't remember it clearly but i remember a pass so I expect there was a lanyard. Between 2004-2008 I had a name badge not a lanyard. Joined current organisation in 2008 - worn one ever since. We get given different ones depending on what is being promoted - currently I have a LGBT network one but I've had a wellbeing one, a site specific one and a union one. We can wear whatever lanyard we like as long as it's not the same colour that we issue to press.

Since about 2004. Need it also to get into the building and othed buildings and to access photocopier and printing.

When I changed job 3 years ago and I go into schools constantly they are lanyard obessed. I don't get it as being a sw i already have a council lanyard!!