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My job has always had a "no weapons policy", and knives while in that policy were always tolerated, or have been since I've been with my company, So we are having our startup meeting before we go talk to the other associates when The V.P. drops a bombshell on me , He says no more knives are allowed here. So I spoke up and I said Sir, may I ask why???, He referred to the no weapons policy, but said they had always tolerated a pocket knife, because we need a cutting tool to do our job, sometimes, So I ask again what caused this, and he said that associates used to carry these, and he pulled out a little kershaw scallion I believe it was, but he said that he had seen a few associates with knives with at least 5 inch+ blades on them and that was unacceptable, ( The knives he saw were a cold XL voyager,Cold Steel Xl Recon 1 , then a cold steel Large Espada), I know because I told the guys not to bring those knives into work anymore, or something like this was going to happen.
So he hands all of us these little yellow box cutters and you can see the blade inside but it has plastic over the blade itself and you haft to push the plastic against whatever you want to cut to allow the blade to come out. So in my head I'm thinking of hell no I gotta do something, So again I say Sir, What if we just put a blade limit on the knives, and explained that the company providing box cutters to associates is eventually gonna get pretty expensive as the type he had only had one blade in them and you were to throw them away after they got dull,Well he asked me how much blade is too much ??? I said sir, I carry a knife about this size daily, yesterdays carry was a Spyderco endura ZDP-189, and I show it to him, he liked the knife and I said this size is about the average size of knives that I see on the floor. So he asks me whats the blades length and I told him 4 inches , So he said O.K, Knives are still allowed but with 4 inch limit , If anybody is caught with a knife and the blade measures over 4 inches the weapons policy is to be followed, which is automatic termination. Out of 15 managers at that meeting, all of us carry knives, and not 1 person besides myself stood up and asked why? I'm not bragging on myself or anything, but just wanted to share this with the community, I mean none of the guys carrying those big blades broke our state law, We can even carry autos here. Anyways what do you guys feel is too big to carry on your job? The biggest knife I've carried to work was an Emerson Super cqc-8, and I didn't want to pull it out at work as I knew that knife was too big to be carrying to work. Anyways how didn't mean to run on and on but your guys opinions would be appreciated.
So he hands all of us these little yellow box cutters and you can see the blade inside but it has plastic over the blade itself and you haft to push the plastic against whatever you want to cut to allow the blade to come out. So in my head I'm thinking of hell no I gotta do something, So again I say Sir, What if we just put a blade limit on the knives, and explained that the company providing box cutters to associates is eventually gonna get pretty expensive as the type he had only had one blade in them and you were to throw them away after they got dull,Well he asked me how much blade is too much ??? I said sir, I carry a knife about this size daily, yesterdays carry was a Spyderco endura ZDP-189, and I show it to him, he liked the knife and I said this size is about the average size of knives that I see on the floor. So he asks me whats the blades length and I told him 4 inches , So he said O.K, Knives are still allowed but with 4 inch limit , If anybody is caught with a knife and the blade measures over 4 inches the weapons policy is to be followed, which is automatic termination. Out of 15 managers at that meeting, all of us carry knives, and not 1 person besides myself stood up and asked why? I'm not bragging on myself or anything, but just wanted to share this with the community, I mean none of the guys carrying those big blades broke our state law, We can even carry autos here. Anyways what do you guys feel is too big to carry on your job? The biggest knife I've carried to work was an Emerson Super cqc-8, and I didn't want to pull it out at work as I knew that knife was too big to be carrying to work. Anyways how didn't mean to run on and on but your guys opinions would be appreciated.
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