Home Depot employees can't have knives?

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Swedge said:
The company's policy is quite rational. Every day, we see posts here about sheeple reacting badly to what we consider to be useful tools. Why should a company let its employees decide how the customers will react to the employee's choice of cutting implement?
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Uhm, since a certain incident in 2001, box cutters have a more negative image than pocket knives for many folks.
Their policy is idiotic and unsupportable.
 
Swedge said:
I disagree with your opinion, and I'm a troll? I have 300 posts here. Look at them and see how often I have baited people. Impugning my motives does not improve your argument.

I certainly agree that Leatherman tools would be useful to workers, but that doesn't mean requiring employees to use only utility knives is a bad policy.

Instead of reacting emotionally to a policy you disagree with, how about looking at it from the other guy's perspective? What reasons might there be to have such a policy?

I have mentioned one, customer reaction.

How about worker's comp claims? An employee is less likely to cut himself with a utility knife than with a folder. Again, looking just at this forum, there are numerous posts of people injuring themselves, sometimes severely, with knives. Often the original poster himself will say, "Boy that was stupid what I did." But with worker's comp, the employer pays whether or not what the employee did was stupid or negligent.
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I agree with all the points that Swedge makes.
I was even surprised how his answer could have been interpreted as trolling.

Now, in the end it's mainly HD's problem. If they don't change the blades of the cutters, then its staff loses time (as happened in the OP's original post) and work less efficiently.
 
What exactly does this thread have to do with the discussion of knives.
 
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