Lanyards

[SteveF]

Found a lanyard really useful when touring on my motorbike, stuck my credit card in it, made getting through the tolls easier with far less faffing.

 

[John the Monkey]

Found a lanyard really useful when touring on my motorbike, stuck my credit card in it, made getting through the tolls easier with far less faffing.

Brilliant idea!

 

[I like Skol]

Just bought a couple of lanyards yesterday to fit onto my Garmin, I would hate to loose them if they became detached from the bike

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I was wondering if that would work. I think I have the same Garmin Edge touring?

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I also hate and detest lanyards and the deskbound a'holes who decree they be worn.

I work in a place where security is pretty important, not just to prevent industrial espionage, but also to prevent breaches of national security classified information. Those people you detest are simply doing their jobs to maintain this security.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've used them at trade shows, tbh I've got other things to think about than waste time being irritated by an ID tag on a bit of string. You know like who's gonna get an M6 toll road barrier up the jacksie.

 

[Piemaster]

I've had an ID one foisted on me for a site I've been visiting recently. It has been simply marvellous, a most convenient way of carrying a quality windscreen ice scraper about.
The boss gave me a lanyard for the office door fob - he wasn't impressed with the length of twine it replaced.

 

[Drago]

I work in a place where security is pretty important, not just to prevent industrial espionage, but also to prevent breaches of national security classified information. Those people you detest are simply doing their jobs to maintain this security.

That only works if people are actively checking them and challenging people. While in one specialist sub department of CID I had to become a signatory of the OSA (again) and still walked around for over a year with a picture of George Michael prit stick'd to my warrant card and no one noticed. I did it to prove a point about the validity of such 'security' measures.

Lanyard and cards keep no one and nothing safe. Rigorous security, properly applied, does that. Lanyard are simply lip service by people responsible for security, but who in reality have no idea how to facilitate it. A card does nothing to stop a villain cramming their brain full of classified information and regurgitating it to the highest bidder/their rezident/the head of their terror cell.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Thar only works if people are actively checking them and challenging people. While in one specialist sub department of CID is has to become a signatory of the OSA (again) and still walked around for over a year with a picture of George Michael prit stick'd to my warrant card and no one noticed.

Lanyard and cards keep no one and nothing safe. Rigorous security, properly applied, not just give

I agree with you. I was only responding to a previous poster's comment about deskbound a'holes, which I thought was pretty unreasonable.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If a lanyard is good enough for Eli Wallach...

'the actor who played the part of Tuco, reportedly told director Sergio Leone that it was too difficult to put a pistol into a holster without looking, so Leone put Wallach's pistol on a lanyard.'

 

[screenman]

Just bought a couple of lanyards yesterday to fit onto my Garmin, I would hate to loose them if they became detached from the bike

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A wrap of cling film over the Garmin and around the bars will keep things clean and together. Old cyclocross trick.

 

[Cuchilo]

Now and then i get asked to wear one , fair enough but once i'm working it goes in the pocket as i dont want it dragging my face towards a machine if it gets caught up . If anyone gets upset about it then i'm more than happy to leave and let them explain why nothing has been done

 

[DanZac]

As @Drago says it only works if people check them. When they introduced a wear your id policy at a place I worked I just wore an empty holder tucked in my shirt pocket with the lanyard round my neck. Did that for 3 years and not a single person ever questioned it. Even when I came in to work in the morning and got my id card which should have been on the empty lanyard out of my wallet to show the security guys!

 

[Biff600]

I have to have a different one for each job I do, they can amass fairly rapidly !!

 

[I like Skol]

Now and then i get asked to wear one , fair enough but once i'm working it goes in the pocket as i dont want it dragging my face towards a machine if it gets caught up . If anyone gets upset about it then i'm more than happy to leave and let them explain why nothing has been done

This is what safety lanyards are for. You have no excuse if safety is your only concern.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I sort of like them, my company change the basic design every year plus they do special one-offs for things like product or brand launches, events etc, so I have loads. You don't have to wear one, but they're a good way of keeping your building pass handy, and they help identify what company you work for at external events, so why not.

Anyone who chooses something daft like a lanyard as their protest battleground with their employer probably needs to get some perspective on what's important in life. Because not wearing a bit of branded cloth is really sticking it to the man isn't it.