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.

We all have to wear ours around our necks for security reasons too, but it also gives me easy access to scan for free coffee so dont mind wearing it one little bit..

DD1 (being a stroppy so and so) refused to wear her (compulsory) bright orange lanyard and pass when in 6th form on the grounds that it was a ridiculous idea brought in by a power-mad deputy head who had failed in his attempt to get 6th formers out of jeans and into suits. Weirdly she never got challenged by anyone.

At DD3s school visitors get a sticky label which is much nicer.

it is a lanyard and i prefer them to a badge.

because you can just put the lanyard on anytime, whereas a badge, you have to decide where to put it, and try not to draw attention to one boob (badges are not good for ladies), or clips you have to have a clipable area (again with the boob attention-drawing - where else except your neckline/cleavage?)

so YABU

I'm another who has to have my lanyard id badge on display. We are encourages to 'challenge' anyone not wearing one. we are our brothers keeper

it's like being in school sometimes.

we are not allowed to not have it dangling around the neck. plus we are colour coded by importance (black, blue, green, red, mustard-boak-yellow).
I made mine shorter, though.

We are meant to wear ours at all times and challenge those not wearing them. It lets you in the building & opens the inner doors from the lifts, depending on your level of access.

I hate the damn thing, not least because they stretched my photo so I look a total moonfaced weirdo, and refuse to wear it. It lives in the outside pocket of my handbag, which is v. useful when I'm coming back from Starbucks with a full tray of coffee, as I can just swing my hip against the beeper and it lets me in.

Never been challenged for not wearing it. Am going to sound like a hideous snob now but I don't work in Dixons and I don't want to look like I work in Dixons therefore I am not going to wear a crappy plastic name tag on a dangly bit of cord. A friend of mine forgets to take his off half the time and is forever being stopped in shops and asked if he can provide assistance...

I have to clip mine to a pocket. Wearing it on a chain could get me throttled. They are a strangling risk in forensic mental healthy units/prisons etc.

Try having to wear the personal alarm I wear. Accidentally yank on it whilst pulling up clothing in the loo and enjoy hordes of staff piling in to see who is being attacked!

I have to wear one - high security site, site access, door access, blah blah. I like wearing my dangler as it gives me something to play with. I always take it off in the car though and it lives in the car so I don't forget to take it to work. There's thousands of people work on the site and I'm always spotting people who haven't taken there danglers off when I'm in asda or somewhere. I like being able to identify them.

We don't need to have ours visible but for security doors we need to have it to hand a LOT. So I tend to have mine on a dangly thing - I put it on as I get to the office in the mornings, but frequently forget to remove it until I hit the kitchen at home in the evenings. I got fed up with various types of clips, ski pass holders, having in my wallet and then getting locked into (or worse, out of) the loo.....

I do wash mine regularly though - I have a few from a few different conferences and things over the years, so I do rotate them.

it's quite weird this thread today, because I actually had a dream about the fact I used to wear a lanyard in my old job, and I don't have any ID things now in my shop.

I need to make proper shop teeshirts (and get some plain babygrows to put my shop logo all over for DD to wear!)

I love my dangly thing. Not because I am powermad, but because I am a complete space cadet with my personal possessions, so it minimises the risk of embarassing myself by losing my security cards. When I remember, I scoop the badge under my coat/top when outside work, but don't always remember [think].

Mine's purple and I have THE purple scarf so it matches convenient? NOPE

I hate my dangly thing, and I have a Royal British Legion one instead of the dorkish one the school supplies because I like red poppies.

I always forget to wear it except when OFSTED came in last October though, and when I do remember, it is hidden under my lab coat anyway!

To be honest, the kids all know me so it's not an issue after the first couple of weeks when they have all encountered the scary Scottish biology teacher lol :-)

I can wear a retractable thingy if I like, but I prefer a lanyard as I always wear dresses with no pockets and there's nothing worse than getting locked out after going to the loo and having to hang around in the hope that someone with a pass comes along soon!!

And why do they bother you so much anyway?

"We have to wear ours at work with a lanyard dangley thing with the work logo plastered all over the bloody thing"

So do we. I need my pass to get through locked doors.

{looks around furtively} I love my lanyard, I hook my tourniquet through it and have been known to keep scissors there too. As well as drugs keys. It makes a satisfying jangly sound and feels reassuringly heavy around my neck.

I had to wear one at one place I worked. They became a focus of self expression among staff, kind of like when school kids adapt their uniform by making their tie dead short or putting the collar up on their blazer.

I never wore mine. I said if anyone wants to know who I am they could ask me.
Anyhow, they don't have to dangle, wear it as a choker or round your head or like a wristwatch. Or on a frilly garter.

I confess, I am a Lanyard wanker

It goes on my neck the minute I get to work, and yes I do wear it out in my lunch break.

In my defence I lost a few in a short space of time and got a bollocking, since I got (my very plain non cartoony) lanyard I haven't lost it.

I'm a lanyard wanker with a company logo. Have never seen anyone personalise them though. That would be the equivalent of Simpsons underpants .

I'm a teacher and I HAVE to wear mine at ALL TIMES or we will fail Ofsted. I don't wear it (and neither does anyone else in my department) and what happens is that every year or so someone tells me that I MUST WEAR IT and I nod and say "of course" and then I don't wear it.

It feels good.