Attack Of The Sheeple!!!

Ron, Panzerfaust: What I said is more like the following:
I believe that no company should have the right to limit things that are set to be allowed by law.
I mean if the state law says you can carry a folder, I do not believe a company should be allow to deny us of that freedom of doing so.
Afterall, they're not some form of legistlation and they shouldn't have the right to say so.
I understand that somehow, companies are still to allow to set policies like that.
 
Their company, their policies. These companies aren't overriding the law, but just introducing their own rules.

When you break the laws of your government, you are dealt with by the judicial system. When you break company policies, you face the company's own punishment/judgment system, and usually get fired. Notice that you're not getting sent to jail for breaking company policies.

Same as in a household. Usually, parents make the rules. When children disobey, they get punished/scolded/whatever. It might be legal to have a 3" fixed blade where you live, but if your parents aren't allowing it in the house, I wouldn't run around saying that my parents are wrong for introducing their own restrictive rules.
 
So what the companies name. I have no desire to do any business with such moronic management!

On a lighter note. I enrolled my oldest daughter into part time pre school the other day. When they read on her paper work that my occupation was "knifemaker" they all freaked! But not the way I would have thought. About four of the women working in the front office started asking me all kinds of questions about my work. One even went as far as to say that she thought it was the coolest job she had heard of:eek:. They even asked if I would bring in some of my peices for them to see.:eek:. I simply pointed out that thanks to the state government I would be violating the law. I then went on to inform them that the govement views me as a weapon maker and that all knives are always weapons. Surprizingly they all stated how stupid that was. I told them to remember that during the next election.
 
Times are a changing. Pretty soon SAK will also be banned from this companies premise. Metal detectorrs and a frisk before your shift starts so that no knives are brought in?

Sorry I did not read all the other post when I wrote this.
 
Well, for once I am happy to live in Denmark! The PC hasn't taken off so much yet and I can still practice my somewhat sick sense of humor at work without getting sacked! (I occasionally get *smacked* by co-workers though!:))
Our knifelaws are very strict (no one hand openers or anything like that are allowed), but I carry whatever I want at work and everywhere else.
The way the society is going is extremely sad and the liberals are going way overboard with their fear of "knives and other weapons".

Bo
 
Bob Bowie wrote,
"The funny thing is they probably have a few pencils, pens, may be a kitchen knife in the break room, various hand tools, etc.... that could be just as dangerous, may be more."

Exactly, that's why in this sort of a situation you can teach a moranic sheeple a lesson only by becoming a BIGGER sheeple than them. Really.

I'll explain what I mean in the following,

Manji,
Exactly the same way she said that that knife made her uncomfortable, you can now go into work and say that the pens, pencils and other office tools/"weapons"! can be used to attack and kill someone and that they are making you VERY uncomfortable. Go so far as to call the police saying that there are DANGEROUS weapons on the premises that can be used by a terrorist. Say the T word, it cathes everyones attention.
Oh and if there is a box cutter in the building, well, then you've got a good case.

I would make that sheeple's life a living HELL if I was you. However, if you fail you might lose your job.
 
I really hope this is a pendulum thing, where many have gone too far to the extreme in response to recent events. Fact is, try as we may, there is no way to guarantee safety at the workplace, schools, or wherever.

These rules seem to me to ignore (to some degree) the fact that people bent on breaking the law will not be deterred by laws that regular people try to abide by, but find annoying. My $0..2
 
Originally posted by Ron@SOG
Sorry for the work problems. It really sucks and is unfair. You can bring your deadly shoe laces to work to garrote your coworkers, why not a "little" pocket knife ("little" is defined by your hand size :) )?

I have no problems carrying knives to work. Heck, I think I'd get sent home if I didn't carry one (or more)! ;) You should see the number of knives I have scattered around my desk. :D

If you had at your desk what I have at my desk, they'd probably call the cops on you! ;)
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No joke,
Ive have the privelidge of working around and with thousands of different knives everyday. I would get funny looks if I didnt have one.
 
Alpha: I know I know... but I don't see why they could make some moronic rules like that.
And probably they didn't define weapons to their wishes and then the definition of weapons revert to state laws' definition, which the Spyderco Chinese should pass perfectly.
*rolls eyes shakes head* what had this world become to.
 
I get out of work every workday , go to my car and open the trunk to drop off my briefcase. On the inside trunk of my car is a magnet that I have my Spydie Endura attached to. I put it in my front right pocket. At work I carry a Jester. I no longer carry anything bigger. Nor do I sit at breaktime and play with or shrpen my knives. I no longer volunteer my knives to anyone trying to open a package.

DO I think this is giving in ? Yes...but I also have a family to support and hope that this is temporary. President Bush seems to think that Americans giving up their freedom will help the war on terrorism. Of course he has Secret Service agents all around him and lives by different rules of ethics than we can while at the same time passing laws against things that are already illegal.

Don't get me started on Bush.

I am startign to rant but want to finish off by saying this...
I do not care where you work or how much you laugh...when someone says :
"I recal saying "If 'blank' doesnt promote me soon I am gonna go postal and gun down everybody and thier mother"
..it is an idiotic thing to say...even before 9-11...
I cannot beleive that everyone is defending this guy making that statement...WHY...just because he likes knives ?
that is just bullshit...
 
Hey Clark, thats really awesome that those people were interested in your knives! Would never have expected that from people who run a pre-school!:eek:

by Geode
there is no way to guarantee safety at the workplace, schools, or wherever.
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Thats why you have to take your well being into your own hands. Get educated and be aware, carry a knife or a gun if you can. After all the second amendent is the orrigional home land security.:)

And Tony, you make a great point. Unless you know your coworkers like family don't scare em by saying things like that. :footinmou
 
I know what you mean, believe me. About a year ago I walked into a local Radio Shack to purchase a battery for my pocket watch and was asked by the teenage employee what size I needed. I removed the watch from my pocket and handed it to him expecting that he would check, but instead he returned it immediately and said that I'd have to go to a jeweler's. When I asked why, he replied that only a jeweler could remove the rear casing. ("They don't come off", he kept repeating.) I tried to explain that all it would require was a small screwdriver or blade, but he acted as if I were a deranged idiot. Finally he told me "if you can get it off yourself go ahead" and so I reached into my jeans, took out my Buck model 704, and opened the blade. What happened next caught me completely by surprise. He suddenly looked up, said "WHOA!" and held up his hands while simultaneously taking two steps back. I turned around hurriedly half expecting to see a masked gunman running into the store screaming "stick 'em up!!" but when I looked I saw nothing out of the ordinary. Only then did it dawn on me that my knife was the cause of the commotion, because I couldn't imagine anyone being unnerved by a 3" blade. (Hell, when I was a kid every boy in school carried a Boy Scout knife with a blade larger than that) It was like a scene from a sitcom ~ standing there with my watch in one hand and little buck in the other while the clerk stood opposite me debating whether or not he should make a break for the door. His behavior had frightened some customers nearby and so unsure of what was going on, they chose to wait and see before deciding what to do themselves. Well, to make a long story short I quickly slipped the edge under the lip of the case cover, popped it off, and pried out the battery. I handed it to him and replaced the knife in my pocket, at which point things then returned to normal. He came back with the battery I paid for it, and left the store without another word being said. Still, the incident left me feeling very uneasy. Is this what we've come to? A nation of sissies frightened to death by the sight of a 3" blade? Jumpin' Jimminy Crickets, thank God I wasn't packing my 4" Cold Steel Voyager Tanto, he'd probably have passed out when I flipped open that puppy! (LOL)


By the way TheSkinwalkeR, I find the term "sheeple" remarkably appropriate. To my way of thinking it aptly describes those among us who'd rather submit than resist, surrender rather than fight, and who ~ as we've all seen these past eleven months, are all too eager to trade their precious freedom for promises of protection.
 
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