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AIBU to not get why everyone seems to hate lanyards?

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Namestheyareachangin · 30/04/2019 15:16

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??

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FenellaVelour · 30/04/2019 23:08

I have a Batman lanyard that I wear in court.

Wincher · 30/04/2019 23:47

Mine irritates me because I need it to get into the building or use the printer etc, but I also need a key to get into my actual office so I have that attached too. So it jingles whenever I walk down the corridor at work. I tried having a lump of blu tack on the back of the card to keep the key in place and stop the jangling but it doesn't work. Any tips? I always thing that if I could have a strong magnet inside the plastic card casing it would hold the card in place, but it would need to be a very thin magnet!

wombat1a · 30/04/2019 23:54

Hate the thing, always bouncing off my chest, blows around in the wind if I'm crossing between buildings, always gets in the way when I leaning over something. Bloody dangerous when I'm using equipment cos it can get wrapped up. OTH at my old place we have extendable ones that clipped to a belt loop, those were brilliant - a far better design.

jackparlabane · 01/05/2019 07:51

I always tuck mine into my top on leaving the building - partly habit from working with protesters outside, but also it doesn't flap about.

I'd recommend people look into longer lanyards as ours are well below breast level/desk level and avoid most of the problems mentioned here.

RainbowWaffles · 01/05/2019 08:46

I hate mine and keep it in my bag at all times. If reminded I should have it on display, I promptly display it for a short time before removing it and putting it back in my bag. I have often forgotten it and had to get other people to let me through security doors. It would be so much easier if I just wore it, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I hate having something round my neck.

BrightYellowDaffodil · 01/05/2019 09:38

People shouldn't be wearing them outside the office/site - that's a security risk.

At my last company we were specifically told to take them off when we were outside because we could have been targeted due to the information we had access to.

MindyStClair · 01/05/2019 09:53

At work recently we had a health warning about wearing them while driving - we've had one incident of someone's lung collapsing because the lanyard was pushed into their chest during a car crash, and another where someone hung keys from their lanyard, and they perforated her bowel in a crash.

I hate wearing anything 'flappy' anyway, but that's made sure i wear mine as little as possible.

nevernotstruggling · 01/05/2019 10:03

You can get nice ones in cath kidston and smiggle. Our is badges just say council staff so I use the holder thing for my registration card too. Some sw have really nice Biba holders too. I don't mind them but I'm not wearing the standard issue green council one!

sonjadog · 01/05/2019 10:18

I wear mine all day at work. Otherwise I would lose it all the time.

I often find myself wearing it in the supermarket/ pub/ wherever after work hours. It is nothing to do with wanting to showing off where I work, and everything to do with being so used to having it on that I forget that it is there.

Luckystar777 · 01/05/2019 11:08

Yeah it makes people look like a tagged cow. But just wait until it's replaced with a microchip instead! Yippeee(!) Grin

PettyContractor · 01/05/2019 11:24

When not at work, I used to leave mine in my car (that I used to commute to work) as if I left it at home, I couldn't go to the toilet without borrowing one from someone else.

I was once told by someone who had worked at a certain public sector site that if one swiped a card on a door one wasn't authorised for, not only would it not work, but the swipe would trigger an alert that would result in a full interrogation by security, possibly followed by being sacked. (And that was just if you were innocent of bad intentions.)

WaxOnFeckOff · 01/05/2019 12:43

our passes show the history of which doors we've passed through and also shows our photos up on the security guards screen when we use them. They also don't allow you to go into a new area without being swiped out of an old one so you can't just follow folk through if you aren't coming back with them. We need them to get to the loo and also to print anything and if you go out a door and turn back before it shuts, you can end up trapped as it still thinks you are on the other side - it's all great fun....Hmm Then you either have to get someone to come and let you out or in etc and then they have to swipe out an back in too. A couple of areas that are not really pass through areas also have hidden emergency buttons to disable the lock in case people get stuck in as their card wont let them out.

I still don't visibly wear mine although we are supposed to.

I've seen on a techy programme on tv that the microchips can be used for humans in the same way as pets, but if you move about jobs i take it you either need to be rechipped or reprogrammed. Hopefully I'll have retired by then.

EBearhug · 01/05/2019 12:49

just wait until it's replaced with a microchip
I misread that as mooncup.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 01/05/2019 17:08

People have taken to wearing their ship's card on a lanyard on cruises. The cruise lines even sell their own customised versions. It's like being at a bloody conference.

Spudlet · 01/05/2019 17:35

I misread that as mooncup.

Now that would enliven the swiping in process every morning...

randomchap · 01/05/2019 17:36

My ID badge is also the electronic key for the doors. When it's on my lanyard I have to lean forward get the card near the reader. I couldn't tell you how many times I've accidentally headbutted the wall. For that reason I hate lanyards but it's compulsory...

purplebunny2012 · 01/05/2019 17:38

I wear mine at all times I'm at work unless I'm on lunch because of getting in the way of my food

purplebunny2012 · 01/05/2019 17:40

at my old place we have extendable ones that clipped to a belt loop, those were brilliant - a far better design.

I had one like that and then the elastic snapped.

YouLikeTheBadOnesToo · 01/05/2019 17:41

I mean your face is right there at the top of your neck, what do you think you are hiding??

Grin Grin Grin

This is just wonderful. Properly made me laugh!

nuxe1984 · 01/05/2019 17:47

I suffer from a lot of tension in my neck that sometimes causes me pain in my neck and shoulders. When that happens I can't even stand a lightweight lanyard around my neck so I tend to stick mine in a pocket.

starfishmummy · 01/05/2019 17:57

Didn't like mine much, but there were no

I don't work now so the only time I get them is when visiting ds's school. I don't wear them - just carry them after the hot summer day when they gave me one that someone literally just handed back... it was rather moist. Euwww.

Eattothebeat · 01/05/2019 18:00

@bolloxtobrexit I am not easily amused but the fact that your dh wears his at the weekend when he's not going to work has amused me greatly - thank you and thank him.

Macandcheese05 · 01/05/2019 18:02

i used to hate mine for 2 reasons. i worked in a legal field and would come into contact with very angry criminals. i dont want my full name and job title in view of them. it made me anxious.

secondly i hate when i go anywhere you get strange people who think its funny to read your name. Usually older gentlemen, its a proper dad joke. "how are you today Mrs Cheese?.....Would you like help with that Mrs Cheese?.....bet youre wondering how i knew your name?" not really asshole, its written on my ID card.

Fishfingersandwichplease · 01/05/2019 18:03

Only learnt the word lanyard when my daughter started school and was given one to hold all the badges she will earn! Literally had never heard it before then and she is only in year 2 now! I am 42!! When l used to wear it l just called it my id badge necklace ....didn't even know there was a word for it. But l love a lanyard!

Lochnessgiraffe · 01/05/2019 18:08

I have to wear my lanyard at work. Its in our contract. Also we have different colours for permanent temporary and visitors. You can't do anything without it. Get into the office or toilets or print. Everyone wears them all the time. I do wear it to and from work. Most people do. Where I live and work a lot of cafes/shops/chemist's give a 10% discount to the staff. So it's definitely worth wearing it at lunchtime or even just to buy a coffee as Costa give a 10% discount.