AIBU to not get why everyone seems to hate lanyards?

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Sort of re the pockets thread - I keep my work pass round my neck on a lanyard I was given with the pass for the purpose. This means I always have it so can get through the building easily, never lose it, don't have to carry it in a bag (or pocket!) etc.

I am however in a minority. Everyone else at work including my dh seems to go to great lengths to hide them - putting them in wallets, keeping them in bags, leavim them on desks etc. On the odd occasion I've caught someone wearing one, they've turned the card round in the little bracket do you can't see the photo. I mean your face is right there at the top of your neck, what do you think you are hiding??

Why do folk hate on the lanyard??

Hate them. Hide mine. Photo is actually (quite rare for me) okay. Having said that it's about 9 years old and now I look like the mother of the person in the photo. Hate the feel of it around my neck. Hate getting it caught on the corners of tables when I lean down to help the kids in school. Hate being branded. Couldn't put up with the person upthread whose husband wears his at the weekend. Sorry, but what a bell!

I don't understand - why are they any more unhygienic than a necklace or a bracelet? If you're in a hospital, fair enough, but most people who wear lanyards aren't.

Most lanyards are fabric - if you'very ever had a white one, you see how grimy they get with time. People used to change teir collars every day. Probably we should have a fresh lanyard every day, and put them through the washing machine (in a laundry bag) every now and then.

Necklaces are usually metal or plastic or something less absorbent than fabric, so probably don't harbour germs in the same way, though I've never swabbed them to compare. I do rub my necklaces with silver cloth from time to time. (I do earring posts with surgical spirit every few months, too.) I try to keep jewellery fairly clean, but I have never cleaned a lanyard. Mind you, mine mostly lives in my pocket, not touching my skin.

Most lanyards are fabric

many fabrics are made from plastic/man made fibres.

I've heard you can buy a 'Woman - Adult Human Female' lanyard. Give that rainbow one a bit of a break. Change it up a bit.

I have to wear mine at all times. I teach in a college, students and tutors have to wear them for ‘security reasons’. We also can’t access the college without one.

It does bounce up and down and whack me in the noggin sometimes, I find it irritating.

I can't bring myself to be bothered by lanyard hygiene tbh, fabric or not. All kinds of things we wear or carry around don't get washed - bags, watches, keys. It's not like I'm going to put them in my mouth or anything.

I have a “dependant’s pass” to get onto DH base too. I don’t wear it on a lanyard though. Nobody wears their passes once on bases. You very much have to where we are at present; first one where that has been the case though for me.

It clicks my clothes and loads of my nice dresses and tops have got bobbles clicks where the lanyard rests.

It interferes with the line of my outfits, so nice necklines or necklaces are ruined.

Once I went to the toilet and sat down and my lanyard Id badge landed on my soiled sanitary pad .

I can't stand the feeling of it on my boobs. Pisses me the fuck off.
Awful.

My. Boobs must be numb 🤔

I dont get it either op. I was nearly home today and i went in to corner shop to milk and i wondered if i looked like i was trying to show off that i had a job !🤔😅

Mine is well past my boobs, it practically comes down to my belly button.
I got a couple from accessorize for about 2.99 each, and I like them, because otherwise I lose my pass and get locked out and am the mercy of the receptionist.

I often wear mine in the supermarket or walking round in new look or wherever, purely because I’m used to it being on, and don’t really notice it’s there. I assume it’s the same for most people?!? I really can’t see many people ‘showing off’ their lanyard, lol.
I think it’s a bit odd to assume that actually, have the people who think this is happening for some kind of inferiority complex or something? Very weird.

I hate them - they get in the way and look terrible w certain clothes. I have my work pass on a clip thing. Most people where I am keep them somewhere other than round their neck!!

Lanyards in our mental health Trust have to have 3 easy break points to avoid risk of strangulation.

Sadly we also had complaints about our rainbow lanyards. It wasn't anything like compulsory and there were a lot less lanyards than staff anyway, but some dicks still complained about the fact they even existed, and other staff wearing them made them uncomfortable.

I look terrible in my photo, it was taken just as I arrived for my first day, didn't even have time to take my coat off! And when I fell pregnant and was trying to hide the bump, I had to stop wearing it as the way it was sitting showed off my growing bump

Compulsory to wear one where I work for safeguarding reasons. I'm a teacher and the last 3 schools have had the same rule.

We have to wear ours at all times visible. Either with belt clip or on lanyard. I wear a belt with all my dresses just to avoid the lanyard (I don’t like the pass dangling on my keyboard), but in general it’s about 50/50 belt clip and lanyard.

A d I usually forget i’m Wearing it, so still have it on when going to the shops. It also ends up in the wash occasionally

My friend who worked for NHS hated her photo on her work pass. She stuck a photo of Fred Elliott (Coronation Street) over her photo and wore it like that for two years. Nobody noticed.

Yes, @preseacombatir, maybe people working for facebook or google or a company with a reputation for hiring young, qualified, dynamic and genetically blessed workforce might be happy to let others know where they worked! but that is not the case for 99% of people! My lanyard is just plain black anyway. I have been given about five lanyards and I stick with the plain black one.

We have to wear them at work (NHS) but I hate mine it really irritates the back of my neck, I just have mine sitting on my desk then if I'm elsewhere at meetings put it on until I'm in the building or whatever. Ours have a clip at the back that comes open incase a patient was to pull it or something. I'm an admin worker so not really relevant for me but lots of clinical staff seeing patients daily.

I have to wear one because its school policy. I am clumsy, I frequently catch it on things, I've guillotined it twice, I've dropped it in paint, its dipped in the washing up, I catch it in my jumper all the time and in the winter I frequently layer my scarf, coat etc up then remember my lanyard is under all the layers and I can't get out the building without it.

I am also an idiot, so I can't take it off until I get home and hang it on its special hook so I won't lose it or forget it in the morning.

might be happy to let others know where they worked! but that is not the case for 99% of people

Ours don't say where we work (security risk if lost) - just photo, name and a coloured margin to indicate employee or contractor. Though the lanyards usually are fully logo'ed... I might point that out to security one day if I'm bored.

anyone else also tried to use theirs on the tube?
or is it just me?