Do you use a knife at work?

Here on the farm, I have been carrying a Hogue 4" drop point of late. Really like it so far!
 
I'm a horticulturist/handyman at a private residence. I wouldn't last 15 minutes at work without a pocket knife.
 
I work as an administrator in a nursing home. Usually carry a locking folder of some kind (lately been alternating between a Caly 3 and a BM 940). In my work environment my blades don't see much heavy use and are typically used for opening mail and shipping cartons, cutting down shipping cartons, and food prep. The tools on the Wenger (and my Squirt PS4) have come in very useful for making minor repairs for residents. I also keep a Leatherman Wave version 1.0 in my desk.
 
Window covering installer checking in, carry KA Bar becker BK11 and a folder. And possible a another fixed blade.
 
Yes, I do use a knife at work. Mostly a ZT300 but I also carry a Leatherman and Spyderco Harpy (recently I have added an ESEE RC-4 to the line up). Currently I am trying to decide if I am going to bring my Scrapyard Dogfather on my next deployment since I will already be bringing a different large knife (Busse NMSFNO). I'll be heading back out in a few weeks, more than likely to Iraq....... again. My old "work knife" was a SOG SEAL 2000.
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On daily basis, yes. Packages, straps, long sheets etc.
My boss had the habit of asking to borrow the knife, but I lately have refused. He haven't learned his lesson.
Maybe if I see him in car crash someday, I'll ask "Need a knife? Oooooh crap, forgot to take it with me" :D
 
All the time. Almost always a one hand opener. Seems like I'm forever hanging off a ladder or whatnot, holding something in one hand, needing to cut something with the other.

Andy
 
I use 3 knives, a sharp kitchen knife to slice muffins/rolls, a butter knife (to butter said rolls) and my Michael Morris Friction Folder for EDC tasks
 
Every day that i'm at work. Sharpening pencils, cutting building wrap and tape or opening packages and cutting straps, food prep at lunch, and a zilla multi tool to field fix equipment. My work knives are tools and get used as such. However i do own knives i dont use like that...
 
I work as a clerk. Part of my work routine requires me to attend to snail mail distribution at my office. For the last week, I have been using the OKC RAT-3 on the job to tackle those larger parcels and DHL boxes.

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This knife is on me 24/7. I have another fixed blade and a SAK Champ in my backpack at all times.
 
I don't remember not carrying at least a pocket knife, even at school when I was in junior high and high school. Nobody, including teachers/administration gave it a thought. Life was much simpler in those days.

I'm LEO. Been on the job 36 years. Back in the '70s there was a Buck 110 on my gunbelt. Since November of 1996, it's been a Benchmade 401-S. Clipped inside my waistband behind my belt in appendix position. SAK Classic in my pocket for years. Those scissors and nail file are handy. Those two knives are on me every day, all day, on or off duty. Always have a fixed blade of one sort or another in the vehicle. Maybe a USN MK III Mod 0, Busse Boss Street, Gerber Prodigy (currently), something moderately stout, just in case. I haven't needed a fixed blade on the job often, but when I needed it, I needed it.

I've cut seatbelts, cut clothing off victims of various...well...stuff, pried "unauthorized" signs off utility poles, scraped paint transfer off a vehicle involved in a hit and run, cut bullets out of trees or other wood, trimmed my cuticles, sliced fruit (Don't worry, I wiped the blade off on my pants leg before I cut the food.), you get the idea. The same stuff everybody else does. Sometimes, when I need a break from paperwork at work, I'll walk outside the north side of the station, break off a tree branch, and whittle a tent peg or something. Great stress reliever.

Just about everybody in uniform on my department carries a locking folder of one flavor or another. The thing that amazes the crap out of me is the inability of grown men to sharpen their knives. The children are always coming to me asking me to sharpen their knives. I've seen the condition of their edges. They know better than to ask to borrow my knife.

Actual conversation---
Wannabe Adult: "Can I borrow your knife for a minute?"
Me: "What do you need to use it for?"
Wannabe Adult: "One of the screws on my sunglasses is loose."
Me: "Then what you need is a screwdriver. This is a knife. NO!"

I don't remember who it was, and I'm too lazy to backtrack and find out, but one of the previous posters said that if he left the house and forgot his knife, he'd have to turn around, go back home, and get it. I can identify with that. OK, I admit it. I've done it.
 
I use my highly modified Spyderco Native III on a daily, if not hourly basis, even though it is not officially allowed at my current job, because it is absolutely indispensable to me. I would be lost without it.
 
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