Originally Posted by Stringfellow

I wear the lanyard, but I think we are all adult enough to still have this perfect trip, even if the guy next to us isn't wearing the required "15 pieces of flare." (to quote Office Space.) Signs and symbols will not improve the quality of the negotiators we've put in place. To place so much emphasis on something like a lanyard reminds me of a typical high school clique. We are gown a** men and women, and supposedly professionals as well. ALPA is here and we are negotiating with the company; with or without any lanyards. We are not laborers who never made it past high school, and need the extra signs and slogans to follow the collective sheep. Everybody who has such a hard-on about these lanyards that they would stop treating a colleague with some common courtesy needs to grow up.