Grrr some people are just ***holes

Bob W said:
Honestly, the current "tactical" knife fad was eventually going to have repercussions. The BM710 looks like a military knife, and I would consider it unsuitable for working in an office or grocery store. You wouldn't wear BDU pants and a kevlar helmet to the Dairy Department would you?
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I have an AMK Falcon clipped to my BDU pants right now, and I'd say the most prevalent 'military knife' is a multitool (got my New Wave in the opposite pocket). Referring to the 710 as a military knife doesn't help knife enthusiasts on the civvie side.
 
orthogonal1 said:
As an aside, when is Great Britain going to have its revolution to regain its liberties? The nation from which so many of the personal liberties we (well, many of us, anyway) consider "rights" to have sunk so far, just boggles the mind.
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All knife people of Great Britain unite!

We have the lock knives and fixed blades to win….

…and only our slipjoints to loss!

I hope the revolution will come soon.
 
Today my mom hid the letter openers. One of them is shaped like a friggin leaf. Do you think I could kill someone with this?
 
It is irksome, but to be pragmatic about it, get something small that adheres to company rules to actually use at work. If you want to carry something else, that's up to you - just use your head. Many company rules are there to protect the company from stupid employees - don't be one of those, and you'll probably be fine.
 
I carry a leatherman charge at work (bloomingdales) and ive never got bothered. ive taken it out infront of employees and customers, no one cared. Its awesome too becuase it has a plain edge for when u need it and a serrated edge for when u need that. plus everything else a leatherman has.
 
I keep the Boss happy by carrying my Dragonfly for public cutting chores and I also have my Endura or Griptilian in a ankle holster under my sock unbeknownst to any but myself.:)
 
Deadhead Archer said:
I second everything The Last Confederate has said. It's not worth losing your job or being written up because you don't agree with the policy. If you have enough of a problem with a company policy, look for work elsewhere.

Use this as an excuse/opportunity to buy a knife that is more sheeple friendly! :D
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Especially when they provided you with box cutter (hopefully with pocket clip), you can spend those on the boxes and keep your own sheeply frienly knife always shaving sharp, and use it for your food, etc. I guess no harm for someone to peel orange with a Victorinox SAK?
 
My best advice is try to get a job that's a little more knife friendly if it's driving you totally nuts. Not sure about your area but in south-central PA the unemployment rate is between 3.3 to 4.1%. Companies are hiring like crazy. And the culture is a little more friendly toward knives then say suburban MD. People still seem to have some common sense here. Political correctness has reached epidemic proportions like in other areas of the country.

Or you could pick up something smaller to wipe out on the job like a Spyderco Jester or Dragonfly. That way you can keep the 710 in your car or in deep carry mode on your person. If you take this route though...be prepared for abrupt unemployment at any moment. :mad:

I'm pretty lucky at my job. I can carry anything from a Spyderco mini-Persian to a Spyderco Manix and everything is cool. I always have a serrated Spyderco Jester in my pocket too regardless of what else I'm carrying to hand off to co-workers who need to use a knife though. For example, I'd hate to see some moron I work with trying to do something stupid with my small classic Sebenza. It's amazing what non-knife people will do with a fine blade.

"It's for cutting! Not scrapping off concrete spatter, prying or removing industrial staples with the fine edge tip of my flat-ground G-10 Spyderco Police!" :D

Been there, said that. Now the co-workers get handed the Jester. Which by the way has been popular enough on the job that about a half-dozen co-workers have had me help purchase them for their own use. I've even turned a few on to serious cutlery like the Spyderco Chinook, Manix, Military & Police. It always helps to articulate the positive uses of knives to the uninformed. "It's not a weapon, it's a practical tool for practical uses." Spyderco's made more then a dozen sales at my job site through my "missionary" efforts. :thumbup:

Good luck on which ever decision you reach.
 
What about hot rodding that company boxcutter. At the hardware store the other day I saw utility knife razor blades, the edges had been treated with that yellow/orange (titanium oxide?nitride?) like some drill bits. Didnt pick them up and couldnt post the picture even if I had, but I remember wondering if they had a longer working life than normal rozor blades
 
Since 9/11 I can no longer carry my knife at work. At the guard shack I pass through now they have installed a metal detector. If that goes off they wand you with a Garrett. A no weapons policy is inplace. Which could basically cover every and anything. This includes the parking lot. If you forget and leave your deer rifle in your truck and a guard spots it, your terminated. One employee was terminated for a rusted up Red Rider BB gun that his young boy had found. He placed it in the bed of his truck and forgot about it till the guards spotted it. You would think I work at a prison but far from it.
Although I dont follow the rules and keep a concealed firearm in my vehicle. I have little choice or option on leaving the blades at home or in the car. I sure do miss carrying. :(
 
At my job I've edc'd at least one of thees at one time:
Ka-bar impact warthog
Ka-bar impact spear point
Fallkniven F1
Spyderco Native I
Boker Magnum AK74
I've goten the odd coment but now my co-workers are very accepting and even politely ask for help cutting things,stripping wire,ect.
 
Uncle Sam might say that blades under 2" are okay to be carried at work, but the security contractors say nothing is allowed in the building. Outside of work I carry a Buck Cadet and a SOG Twitch II now, and alternate between my Spyderco Manix and my Benchmade 551 Griptilian. Hoping to get a BM 705, 556 or Spyderco Native III for smaller regular EDC carry.
 
I take exception with anyone here who is turning this matter into a debate on knife laws, gun laws, and freedom. Before I go into this let me say that I was raised by a father and mother who both served in the US Air Force. I believe in the freedoms of this country and I voted for George Bush in the last election. I am against the government making laws that restrict our freedoms. That being said, RTTR is not being restricted from carrying that knife by a law or the government. The freedoms in this country belong to the companies that employ us as well as the individual citizens. The company he works for has every right to set the rules of their workplace as they wish, and RTTR has every right to not work their anymore. The truth is that this has nothing to do with how dangerous the knife is but how dangerous that 710 could appear to the customers. If they honestly feel that him having and using that knife at work could turn customers away and make them lose business then they every reason to ban the knife from the workplace. That stands even if it only costs them one customer with a $20 purchase.
 
That sucks.

However, if you haven't already this might be a good excuse to discover the joys of a traditional slipjoint. The main reaction when you pull out a four inch stockman with bone or stag handles is "Hey that's cool".

I work in an office and my main EDC is a Case Mini Copperlock with chrome vVanadium (carbon steel) blades. It actually locks, and it will make short work of any carboard box. It's also much more of a pleasure to handle and use than a utility knife.
 
TCU is so strange in regards to knives. I often find myself and my friends (including some girls) pulling out our knives--substantial knives--and comparing them at the lunch table in a crowded cafeteria--I was extremely hesitant of this sort of behavior when I first attended (though my friends apparently knew the policy and acted like that sort of thing wasn't unusual in the least)--I still don't think it's a smart thing to do, but to their credit, no one even blinks. No one notices. These are knives like my D`allara drop point and my friend's full sized D2 Griptillian. We were sitting in a quiznos right off of campus and my girlfriend pulls out her minigrip and starts flicking it for fun...then hands it off to our other (female) friend and she's flicking it...no one notices.

I feel like I live in the ultimate knife okayness area.

I'm still pretty cautious though and stick to 3 inch and smaller blades for 99% of EDC.
 
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