A big Fat load of corporate BS

Hickory n steel

Hickory n steel

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Apparently no corporate policy says this is all I'm " allowed " to carry at work.

They can we knives and customers can carry them, but we can't ?

Oh well, if they wanna loose money by having me waste time using some piece of crap that can't be sharpened and doesn't have enough blade to fully get through some of the cardboard I have to cut that's on them.
If they're making me carry this piece of shit they better keep ample supply on hand.


They're not gonna know what's in my pocket or anything so it's not as bad as it could be, but they're really overreaching if you ask me.
This is just an ignorant reaction to some BS, if it gets to be a bigger deal I'm outta there.
 
As an employer, I don't blame them in the least. I've seen plenty of people I wouldn't trust with sharp objects under any circumstances. If some knucklehead snaps a slipjoint closed on his finger or sticks himself in the leg with a flipper trying to open a box they get the privilege of paying higher insurance premiums on their worker's comp plan.
 
Balsquat said:
Agreed. Just trying to cheer you up ;)
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I'll be fine as long as I've got something like this in my pocket.


The worst part is that my boss doesn't necessarily agree and understands that my knife is important, but his hands are tied and he can't risk problems during a surprise inspection.
I'm not sure I can even carry my leatherman ( at least not openly anyways ) but the pliers were what I used most on it so I can make some adjustments there.
 
I do service at some places that have similar safety type approved cutters that are only open while the user is using it.

Some other places have a zero knife policy. I guess one too many days off due to stitches.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
As an employer, I don't blame them in the least. I've seen plenty of people I wouldn't trust with sharp objects under any circumstances. If some knucklehead snaps a slipjoint closed on his finger or sticks himself in the leg with a flipper trying to open a box they get the privilege of paying higher insurance premiums on their worker's comp plan.
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Well I do, because it's a " Weapons " issue that is prompting this, the whole thing mentions knives guns chains and " razor blades ".
 
I can understand the frustration, but I also have employees and understand the need to over regulate in some cases.

Last year I had to deal with an employee who was wildly swinging a machete he brought to work to “save time” cutting plant tassels.

He was within a few feet of several others who quickly called me to squash it.

He proclaimed “he knew what he was doing”.

I had a differing opinion.
 
The previous company I worked for had sold out to a huge acquisition company that rhymes with spamaher. They eventually replaced our standard utility knives with snowflake approved devices. They didn't give 'blade' refills to us, we had to request them from the building supervisor lol. I still carried a Gerber EAB anyways.

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Hickory n steel said:
Apparently no corporate policy says this is all I'm " allowed " to carry at work.

They can we knives and customers can carry them, but we can't ?

Oh well, if they wanna loose money by having me waste time using some piece of crap that can't be sharpened and doesn't have enough blade to fully get through some of the cardboard I have to cut that's on them.
If they're making me carry this piece of shit they better keep ample supply on hand.


They're not gonna know what's in my pocket or anything so it's not as bad as it could be, but they're really overreaching if you ask me.
This is just an ignorant reaction to some BS, if it gets to be a bigger deal I'm outta there.
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You seem angry.
 
I.M. I was an employer also. If any of my employees couldn't be trusted to be safe with sharp objects they were not employed long or never got employed. Eliminating unsafe workers is a better solution to restricting all of your employees and your productivity for the benefit of a few morons.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Well I do, because it's a " Weapons " issue that is prompting this, the whole thing mentions knives guns chains and " razor blades ".
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Then they're worried about their liability insurance instead of their worker's comp. Result is the same. Start your own business or work for yourself and carry what you like, but employers have to account for the lowest common denominator among their employees when they write policy.
 
It helps the economy! Someone had to sit down and design the useless piece of plastic and get paid to do it. LOL
 
SOLEIL said:
I.M. I was an employer also. If any of my employees couldn't be trusted to be safe with sharp objects they were not employed long or never got employed. Eliminating unsafe workers is a better solution to restricting all of your employees and your productivity for the benefit of a few morons.
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That works fine if you're small and know all your employees, but if you think that level of knowledge and oversight is even remotely possible with even a single location that employees a couple hundred people, well, you're wrong. Hell, I have a good employee that I don't want using sharp objects. Hard worker, motivated, almost never calls in and does his job well. He's also 20 years old and an impulsive jackass. He hunts and I've gifted him a knife and sharpen his stuff regularly, as a favor, but he can cut himself on his own time, not mine.
 
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