those ID cards dangling around the neck on a dangly thing.

[DameHermione]

they irritate me and make me feel stabby.

particularly if said dangly thing is covered with cartoon characters.

just clip it onto a pocket of something, stop waving it and jingling it on your cleavage and stuff.

I dare you all to not wear the dangle tomorrow.

go on. please.

But then I'll be locked in the corridor

And I don't know what they'd do but I'm pushing it, working just about part-time hours

I won't be wearing mine tomorrow.

but only because I'm visiting a different campus, so I'll constantly be having to root around for my sodding ID card for that campus, rather than handily having my lanyard and card - and as ladybabs says, it's particularly good with a massive bump, as you just waggle your bump at the door and it opens.

DS thinks all doors at my work are 'magic' now. Can't do that with obvious hand movements as you hold a card up, can you?

i refuse to belive the country would grind to a halt if people stopped dangling their ID around their necks.

Ok DameHermione, I'll just tell my irate boss MN told me not to!

yes! do that!

I am wearing it. Had not seen this thread. Humble apologies to the MN massive. Ours is a vile shade of blue, which clashes with my dress today. Would you believe I was intending to go on line today to search for some more fashionable colours without embarrassing logos?

I usually try to clip it to my clothing to avoid the dangly lanyard show offy weirdness, but this doesn't work with a lot of my dresses. Again, we have to wear ours - not actually for ID purposes, but because you need to swipe your card to get through every door in the fricking building. And extensive research has proven that I am unable to manage all day without having a wee wee!

I am currently wearing my badge of allegiance...it's compulsory where I work and we are meant to 'challenge' people who are not wearing one... (to what I don't know, a game of paper, scissors, stone perhaps, drinking competition?) and it opens doors.

I shan't wear it tomorrow though, or Friday...but then again I am on leave

Dame, you get carted away and are never seen again ..

Maybe I work in a zoo Unchartered and the badge is the only inedible thing to a lion

The truth is more boring, but at least my lanyard is green rather than this common blue that everyone is yapping on about!

my lanyard is purple

and the country wouldn't be harmed by no lanyards, but I would be annoyed without mine.

I wear one. Only at work. We have to have it round our neck (clear visability ) we did challenge it, it got knocked back. Even with the union involved. I work at a high security site. It comes off as soon as I leave. I don't want any randoms knowing where I work.

When I joined the union they posted me a smart black lanyard with UNION MEMBER TROTSKY COMMIE TROUBLEMAKER plastered all over it very prominently.

I was initially keen to wear it (just to keep bad boss man on his toes) but I work with external business clients so decided it was probably wise to keep politics a bit less visible!

The teachers at DS's school all wear one with 'STAFF' on the lanyard bit. It's useful because a lot of the teachers are very young.

My 3.8 yo DD saw a man wearing a lanyard the other day and said to me in hushed/reverential tone: "That man has a...MEDAL!". Then she looked at him in awe.

He really didn't look like an athlete. Quite the opposite!

Cue me trying to explain WTF a lanyard is to a 3yo. She didn't understand.

Yes, Seventh. Guest lanyards are available too I think. Good for security.

I used to wear one for work until a violent patient tried to strangle me with it!

Its now on a clip on my uniform pocket, turned the wrong way as the photo of me sucks!!

Similar to Kladdaka, - if my DH doesn't wear his, it could end up in him being unable to get into the work car park shot.

I don't understand why people keep them on once they have left work though. I used to take mine off as soon as I got out of the door.

Where I worked we had to wear one all the time -for security reasons. I hated it.

I had to wear a dangling one when I worked at a school. Even the strap was in the school colours with the logo. There were little black plastic clips at three points on the strap and badge. I asked my Dad (governor) what they were. Apparently it's to facilitate an easy break if a student tries to strangle you with it

Like the quick release cat collars Charmingly? be useful if you got stuck in a bush.