Things have changed since I last worked full time. Not sure when it all happened, but there’s been additions to the office landscape. One of the most noticeable are the goddamn lanyards. They’re everywhere and I hate them.
I can understand how they came about as modern security measures, I mean… when you watch the news and see how disgruntled consumers can sometimes go crazy and march into some place and take everyone hostage and start shooting the place up… it kinda makes sense not to let unauthorized nut jobs into a work place. And hey! We’re a monstrous nightmare corporate ISP… so if ever consumers are going to be seriously disgruntled, it’s going to be at us! So keep ’em out I say.
It’s also kinda dodgy how they’re used as identifiers in my work place – permanent staff… here, have a pretty blue one… agency staff… you, second class citizen, you… have the dodgy grey one. No doubt very useful for the permanent staff, so they know who they should bother getting to know and who they can basically fob off or ignore.
Anyway…. I just hate wearing the damn lanyard. We’re supposed to wear them to get in and out of the building and whenever we’re on the floor, but I avoid wearing mine where ever possible. They bang against the desk, and swing all over the place and I hate the way it rubs against my neck.
Sigh… they just seem to get in the way :(…. or maybe it’s the boobs getting in the way… the damn thing doesn’t hang flat down my chest the way it does on a guy….
