Bladeless at Work :-(

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Mobster1983

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Being lazy at work and reading through the thread about leaving your house without a knife. Made me long for the days where leaving the home without a knife was a rare occurrence.

I’m a former Army infantry officer-turned- attorney. I work in a courthouse (criminal court) and so no blades of ANY size are allowed. I feel haked every day without a knife clipped to my pocket. I keep a couple in my car in case I have to go somewhere after, but don’t carry out of the house because I will likely forget it trying to go through security.

I’ve taken to using and carrying my Surefire EWP-01 pen. Good heft with a solid glassbreaker tip and writes great with a Schmidt Easyflow 9000 cartridge.

Who else works in a place that does not allow knifes and how do you sate your blade withdrawal?

Fortunately I got a job with the feds where I will rarely be in court. Looking forward to the end of my bladeless life next month. :-D
 
My work, technically, doesn't allow knives (weapons of any kind) but I can get away with a small one as long as I'm not being an idiot about it. I generally keep a small gentlemen's knife with me at work every day. I also feel naked without one and dread travelling or having to go anywhere where I can't take or carry a knife. Having said that, at least you are in a courthouse and it is just a matter of habit and not a safety or protection issue :)
 
Mobster1983 said:
Being lazy at work and reading through the thread about leaving your house without a knife. Made me long for the days where leaving the home without a knife was a rare occurrence.

I’m a former Army infantry officer-turned- attorney. I work in a courthouse (criminal court) and so no blades of ANY size are allowed. I feel haked every day without a knife clipped to my pocket. I keep a couple in my car in case I have to go somewhere after, but don’t carry out of the house because I will likely forget it trying to go through security.

I’ve taken to using and carrying my Surefire EWP-01 pen. Good heft with a solid glassbreaker tip and writes great with a Schmidt Easyflow 9000 cartridge.

Who else works in a place that does not allow knifes and how do you sate your blade withdrawal?

Fortunately I got a job with the feds where I will rarely be in court. Looking forward to the end of my bladeless life next month. :-D
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Thas a sad state of affairs for a knife dude :(

Until I read you were in a courthouse I was all : I don't care what they say I will carry what I want. I'm not good at being regulated by stupid people.
I guess x-ray machines kind of kick that out the window.

Your story has a happy ending though so good going :D !
 
I worked in a building that had no weapons signs and policy but there were no detectors and you didn't get frisked so I have always carried a knife and recently they changed the law and any building w/o metal detectors you can carry. We still don't have metal detectors so I can carry now and know it isn't any type of violation.
 
Same here. Work for an airline and no knives are allowed by our company or the airport (on the tarmac).
I do carry one to and from but leave it in my car in the employee lot.
I do however carry a tiny prybar with a flathead screwdriver tip that has a slightly sharpened portion to open taped boxes once in a while.
 
That sucks.
Now if you work in a place that doesn't allow knives but has no metal detectors...ect you can just keep a slipjoint in your pocket and leave it there.
 
Thank you for your service, and I hear ya about feeling under-equipped without a pocket knife.

I had a career for 15 years that would not allow pocket knives or even multi-tools (unless you removed the blade and had security sign off on it). The silly part was we needed to cut things all the time so we would use large scissors held open, garden clippers, or use crappy “safety box openers”.

The irony was that the garden clippers would increase the damage from finger cuts due to the increased leverage, the scissors were a lost finger or stab wound waiting to happen (saw many near misses), and the safety blades would gunk up after a couple of boxes and become useless. Que the pen stabs...
 
Funny enough it's the exact opposite for me. I can carry all the EVIL LOCKING FLIPPER FOLDERS™ I want at work since it's a non-public area, I can't carry the same knives outside when I am off work.
 
I drive for a private garbage company. There are no knife rules. I can carry anything. My boss/owner of the company regularly carries a 110 on his belt.
 
I suppose you might say I work in the worst of all possible worlds. It's located on a military base that has a general ban of any folding or fixed-blade knife with a blade length of over four inches unless you can demonstrate a "legitimate need." Also specifically prohibited are any straight razors (even in the barracks or residential units).

But, here's the kicker: the specific building in which I work has a boss who strictly prohibits the display and use of all blades that are not cheap plastic disposable cutlery. "Display and use" means exactly that, which allows me to carry into my workplace any knife with a blade less than four inches in length - so long as it's never used. My boss specifically forbids the use of X-Acto craft knives and box cutters, as well as any multitool (even if the knife blade itself isn't deployed) irrespective of size. Therefore, even a Leatherman Squirt dangling from your keychain still constitutes a threat to employees and guests. Ditto for any kitchen cutlery made of metal - including butter knives (I asked). She also declared that display and use of any of the aforementioned classes of knives and tools are grounds for summoning the base police, confiscation of the item, and finally, being escorted off the post.

(If you actually need to break down heavy corrugated cardboard boxes, you are forced to use child-sized and blunt-tip scissors.)

I've tried to understand her point of view, but to no avail. As I see it, her policy can't possibly benefit employee or public safety because nothing in it prohibits actually carrying any of the knives and tools into the building. And no, there are no metal detectors or x-ray scanners where I work.

I do know for a fact my boss carries a pink Spyderco Native in her purse "just in case." Go figure.
 
I used to work in UK , and my job entailed going to court two or three times a week - I was the prosecutor.

I used to carry a small locker all the time in the office , but it was verboten in Court.

I had my brief case with me with case papers , and used to put my knife in the case before it/I was xrayed. The security guards knew me as I was regular visitor.
My case was visibly checked each time I went to court. As I carried pens, calculators etc in my case , I always got thru without the knife being found. I used to put it back in my pocket on the way to courtroom inside the building.

Nowdays in other places with x ray machines , I doubt you could carry anything dangerous!!
You dont want to break the rules in airports or on cross channel trains( UK to France).
 
I work in a place with posted sign prohibiting guns, knives, and other weapons. The reality is that I rarely "need" a knife at work; and, most of the time, the cutting tasks are best suited to scissors...but I feel nekkid without a knife, so I carry a traditional - hoping that they'd be hard pressed to classify it as a weapon, if an issue was ever made. I hate carrying scissors, or shears, just to have on the rare occasions that I need them (I used to do it, but found I was lending them far more than using them)...and a folding knife carries better.
I still fully expect to one day find metal detectors blocking my path - maybe not at all entrances, but in certain areas) - and when that happens I'll have to start leaving it in my vehicle.
 
My employer has adopted a strict 3" max limit for pocket knives, but sometimes I'll push the envelope at 3.25" :p. I also try to keep the weight at or below 3 ounces too...anything heavier definitely prints in dress slacks.

I travel by air a lot for work and end up in strange towns with no knife; only my flashlight and a SAK Jetsetter. That feeling sucks! I usually fly commercial but every now and then the company jet is going the same place I am. Once you fly private you get ruined for flying commercial. I could fly the company jet with a machete in my lap if I wanted to!
 
That is a real bummer. The last time I was on Jury Duty, the guards sent me back to my truck, parked in a parking deck 2 blocks away, in the snow, to return my Vic Waiter "weapon". I dangled it in front of the officer, holding it by the thumb-drive I have on the ring, and asked if this was really a weapon, to which he just nodded affirmatively.

I also could not take the same knife into the Hoover Dam tour, to which I said I would just pass on the tour then.

It's the world we live in.

best

mqqn
 
I'm pretty lucky I work in a federal building but our head security officer or agent (not sure what the official title is), but he lets us carry multi tools and knives in the building as long as it's legal within the state.
 
I'm a former infantry e4 mafia boss.

I got fired from a foundry job, 2 weeks after being promoted, because I told my supervisor how I really fealt, after he made a comment directed towards me under his breath that I heard...
Long story short, I got a temporary job in a frozen vegetable packaging plant, no knives allowed, so I bought the Buck ops boot knife, and never said a word.

I've also been to court a few times over, as a defendant though, not an attorney, and realized completely by accident, my credit card knife in my wallet which I often forget i even own, always passed courthouse security because I would put my wallet and keys in the basket before walking through the metal detector.... I definitely don't recommend this to anyone, as getting caught would potentially result in a new charge, but just saying...
 
Deltadag said:
I suppose you might say I work in the worst of all possible worlds. It's located on a military base that has a general ban of any folding or fixed-blade knife with a blade length of over four inches unless you can demonstrate a "legitimate need."

But, here's the kicker: the specific building in which I work has a boss who strictly prohibits the display and use of all blades that are not cheap plastic disposable cutlery. "Display and use" means exactly that, which allows me to carry into my workplace any knife with a blade less than four inches in length - so long as it's never used. My boss specifically forbids the use of X-Acto craft knives and box cutters, as well as any multitool (even if the knife blade itself isn't deployed) irrespective of size. Therefore, even a Leatherman Squirt dangling from your keychain still constitutes a threat to employees and guests. Ditto for any kitchen cutlery made of metal - including butter knives (I asked). She also declared that display and use of any of the aforementioned classes of knives and tools are grounds for summoning the base police, confiscation of the item, and finally, being escorted off the post.

(If you actually need to break down heavy corrugated cardboard boxes, you are forced to use child-sized and blunt-tip scissors.)

I've tried to understand her point of view, but to no avail. As I see it, her policy can't possibly benefit employee or public safety because nothing in it prohibits actually carrying any of the knives and tools into the building. And no, there are no metal detectors or x-ray scanners where I work.

I do know for a fact my boss carries a pink Spyderco Native in her purse "just in case." Go figure.
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