do people at your work wear lanyards?

I wear a lanyard at work to get in and out of the building and to prove I'm not a terrorist. I used to rail against the injustice of having to wear one, regarding it as some kind of civil liberty infringement and noting how it ruins my otherwise perfect fashion presentation, but I eventually got over myself.

However, I do have a nasty habit of chewing it as if I'm a puppy, which means that it's covered in chew marks. I have been known to blame my (non-existant) hamster for these marks. I comfort myself by remembering that I'm only chewing it because The Man makes me wear it, tho I readily admit that this is a kinda flimsy excuse.

I use a retractble string thingie plus lanyard. That's right: COMBO.

I have not counted the number of times I have to swipe on an average day, but it is easily 20+ times.

oh man i hate the retractable spool of string thing. i only had to use one for a couple months during a temp job last year, and after a few weeks i had totally messed it up afaict using it the normal way a normal amount, and the string was all slack.

maybe your just not cut out for this life son *snaps retractable spool of string thing*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiYmCVikjo

i've broken 3 belt clips and i hate wearing a lanyard (i hate the word, too), so i'm a badass and i just carry the ID in my pocket and then forget it every 3 months or so

when i pull the ID out of my pocket, sometimes i hear nearby citizens/coworkers mutter "god, what a badass"

then i say "i even hate the word lanyard", and sometimes people faint

I thought a lanyard was something involved in shipbuilding until a few years ago.

At my old job in IT everyone wore lanyards with their IDs because they used them all the time to swipe in to the datacenter and other useful things. Since security was kind of an important thing leaving your ID lying around - even on your desk - was highly frowned upon and enforcement meant that if you found someone's ID anywhere they had to buy you lunch.

At my current job in a library there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for anyone anywhere to actually wear a lanyard, yet a handful of people do. I tend to use this as a marker for people that I cannot take seriously and want nothing to do with.

read that as "swipe into the dancefloor".

at my current lanyard-wearing job i organize a lot of the office supplies, including the lanyards, and we have them in like 5 different bright colors. thinking about switching my usual lime green lanyard out for purple or orange, swag it out a little

read that as "swoop into the defecator"

some people at my office do but not many. last fall the building put in a subway-style turnstile thing at the entrance; i've seen far fewer people even wearing their IDs after that, which is kinda interesting.

er, the turnstile needs an ID swipe to open, if that wasn't clear

So, when someone says "lanyard" I think of the plastic craft stuff we used to make key chains out of at camp that apparently some total weirdos in other parts of the country called "gimp".

When I think of lanyard:

http://207.65.1.184/assets/Lanyard.jpg

I am so so so glad I no longer have to deal with these things any more.

That said, I have picked up the habit of occasionally trying to wave my Oyster Card at the gate of my building trying to get in. But at least I no longer try to insert my debit card into tube turnstiles.

i remember some girl from northern england or somewhere once accused me of being irremediably bourgeois because i didn't know what a tabard was, but i didnt know what a lanyard (in this form) was either so

because i didn't know what a tabard was

?!?

how is that bourgeois, did she live in 1550 or something

"thou does not know how to wear a doublet and hose, foul cad!"

dis ting

http://www.ppcltd.co.uk/clothing/clothing-tabards.html

ohhhhh

'plastic craft stuff we used to make key chains out of at camp'

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lXd-n5Kab50/SjclFFDIJxI/AAAAAAAAAYo/INPINKAJFrk/s400/Throwback+-+2009-06-18+-+Lanyard+2.jpg

the fancy people made some crazy double/triple helix tony hawk trickery in theirs and would have this weight to it like that weird weapon that nasa guy used to knock people out in that homer goes to space episode

Yes - those! Lanyards!

i totally called it "gimp".

most people in my work wear a lanyard, i refuse to wear it, i just swing it around in my hand as i walk. it gets you access to the building and then through the doors that you're allowed through once youre in there. but the front doors stay open for so long once they swing open and holding the doors inside the building for anyone who is behind you is so common that really as far as security measures go it's beyond useless. im a civil servant, we work with sensitive material but not like national security sensitive or anything.

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