Do people who wear a lanyard look important?

[bainbridge]

I keep my work security pass card in my pocket and just get it out to swipe through a door when need be.

Some people wear it on a lanyard (which is sometimes brightly coloured) around their neck but I don't bother. Now, I know most places require a security pass to be visibly worn but this rule isn't enforced in our place.

It dawned on me that I subconsciously assumed people who wore a big bright lanyard with their pass were important. After a day or so I realised this was rubbish, most of the people who wore a lanyard around their neck were people who weren't based in one part of the building and constantly moved around different departments, people such as IT and HR. These people will be doing a lot of swiping through doors so it is practical.

Still, I noticed a fair few people who were less important than me (there are actually one or two, amazingly) wearing a lanyard. They are based in one department but these were usually the ones who wore a brightly coloured one.

Do people wear these things to try and look important?

 

[craptakular]

Yes.

 

[Mynight]

I tend to think they're idiots brandishing security passes or whatever they have. When I was working in the nightclubs so many people must have known what I looked like and having the door card/ safe keys hanging off a lanyard round my neck would have made me a prime target(other than the 5-6 figure emergency bank runs for change ).

In the office no issues but I just see idiots when their wearing it out in public.

 

[Nix]

OP, you didn't really need to ask this did you?

 

[ikillbears]

just easier than digging it out of your pocket every time

 

[[TW]Fox]

They look like people who use swipe cards to open doors.

 

[kitkat9933]

I work in a school, so for safeguarding we all have to wear them visibly at all times otherwise we can be reprimanded.

 

[Juicy_vessel]

If it is a Lanyard with an E-Cig they are bottom of the Food Chain

 

[Judgeneo]

I open doors a lot so a lanyard is useful.
Take it off outside the office though

 

[Raymond Lin]

Our office policy actually states you need to display your ID at all times.

I have one of those clips that go on my belt though. Can't stand the lanyard but the girls have them because they can't clip it on their dresses.

 

[WillyNelson]

We're supposed to wear them visibly at all times, but hardly anyone does. Last place I worked it was enforced quite rigerously but security was a bigger deal. Security is quite a big deal at my current place but I guess people don't really know exactly what we do.

I think lanyards, especially branded ones, are often part of a work uniform. As in, you're in your work headspace when you're wearing it. Take it off and you're in your civvies.

 

[bainbridge]

If it is a Lanyard with an E-Cig they are bottom of the Food Chain

HAHA genuine lol

That's amazing! There are 3 people in my bit of the office who prance around with an e fag wearing a fluro lanyard.

They even stand in the smoking area outside e smoking

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

Security policy in my company.
I wear mine on my belt though.

 

[DAnDan]

It's fairly useful to have your ID on a lanyard around the university, as it helps to stop people mistaking you for an undergrad.

Also, swipe doors! Fortunately there's none in the building(s) I'm in, so it stays in my pocket most of the time.

 

[Zenduri]

My first day on the job security told me to not wear my Yanlard/ pass outside of work as it has been known for people to attack or verbally insult members of staff...... (I work for one of the "BIG SIX")

For security reasons at work we should wear it as occasionally customers have come to the office and followed people in through the security doors lol

We normally have a challenge on site policy if their pass isn't showing, i tend to walk around with mine in my hand if i need to go through a security door with the lanyard lapped around it and just palm it over the sensor when i need in and out. No-one seems to mind i don't wear it tbh

 

[DirtyJester]

just easier than digging it out of your pocket every time

So this, especially when hands are full

 

[Resident]

Some words

Where I work everyone MUST wear their security ID on a lanyard so that it's visible at ALL times. Even taking it off and placing it on your desk whilst you're in secure areas will get you drag into an office and berated. Do it twice and you're straight on the disciplinary track.

As soon as I exit the building, unless I'm only popping out for a fresh air break (fag break for non-smokers), it's taken off and in a pocket.

 

[Bear]

They look like people who use swipe cards to open doors.

Exactly, I have to have my pass visible at all times for security, it's company policy.

 

[mlbtheshow]

Surely you could take a company to the European Court of Law for putting you on a disciplinary for not wearing a security tag around your neck?

Id say it was a breach of human rights forcing you to wear something that in essence dosent mean you are who you say you are anyway... unless everytime someone passed you they checked it (assuming it carried your ID) and if it dosent, then.....

SUE SUE SUE SUE SUE

 

[DAnDan]

Surely you could take a company to the European Court of Law for putting you on a disciplinary for not wearing a security tag around your neck?

Id say it was a breach of human rights forcing you to wear something that in essence dosent mean you are who you say you are anyway... unless everytime someone passed you they checked it (assuming it carried your ID) and if it dosent, then.....

SUE SUE SUE SUE SUE

This has to be the single most petty thing ever!?

Sue them because they make you were an ID badge?