Knives at work

[Shawn_Jewell]

I am currently working for my step father and he knows I have a small knife obsession so I could probably get away with just about any knife as long as it does not prevent me from doing my job. I work on a feedlot. Opening boxes of medicine for livestock, wood chipping containers, and other utility tasks are just a daily thing. Two of my co workers both carry pocket knives with a blade length of around two inches. I carry my Cold Steel Ak-47 because its just so tough and does any job I throw at it. Anything longer than my four inch bladed knife seems somewhat unnecessary to me. At least for what I do haha. Glad things worked out for you!

 

[richard thurman]

I know that some folks like larger knives, but I think that 4" is the blade-limit for folders here in Florida, and that's not too bad. I think that rules that include "intent" make more sense that rigid limitations on blade-length.

a co-worker and I did a bet on the size law. I said there is not one and he says that there is. we had a DA lawyer friend of his to look it up and he could not find any statue saying one way or the other. now your city may have one.

 

[getout87]

My knives are a topic of discussion at work. A few guys always ask which one I am carrying for the day, and the sharpness of my sebenza is something guys are always amazed at. Heck, my boss frequently sells guns at work and carries a ruger lcr in his briefcase

 

[quigibo]

Nice work, Allen R. :thumbup:

The owner of the company I work for, our production manager and our software guys are all complete gear-heads. I could get away with a carrying a tomahawk so long as I let them play with it for a bit.

 

[Allen R.]

My boss carries a switch blade, and uses it in front of customers no one cares down south.

I haft to disagree with you there, I'm down south and "most" people will tolerate a knife, but it depends where you are, The company I work for has over 5,000 employees and just so happens that the V.P. really likes me, I worked my way up from a line worker to a production supervisor, I see all walks of life now, Like I said most people down here are tolerant of knives, but in this day in age there are also the people that you could pull out a key chain knife and people would run for the hills thinking you were going to kill them, Especially in the bigger cities...

 

[Allen R.]

That's quite a back-pedal from no knives to a 4" blade allowed. There are quite a few really aggressive looking blades that don't exceed 4". Heck, in Oklahoma, that's the legal carry limit, so I don't even usually buy anything larger.

Getting the boss to approve a 4" blade will let the folks there carry MOST any folder. Good job. And good job for not just being a bobble head and agreeing with everything the boss says without any discussion. I have always told my employees that they should NEVER be "YES" people. Just because I pay their wages, doesn't give me a lock on being right all the time.

Like I said there is a no weapons policy, but knives were the exception, as we need them to do our jobs, well like I said a few guys were carrying those big 5+ inch folders and that was pushing it , and I tried to let them know that if the wrong person saw it that something like that was gonna happen, but being young , I guess the guys thought it was the cool thing to do to have the biggest knife they could find. My boss carries a knife as do all the other department managers, (and most employees as well), The V.P. was hesitant to enforce the policy, but a few bad apples can ruin it for everybody. Like I said I just showed him my endura and he said that he liked it, and asked how long the blade was , and I told him. That's when he said , there will be a 4 inch limit (I'm not gonna lie most of my knives are about 4 inches in length so thats why I pushed the issue, but last night I carried a dragonfly in ZDP-189 just to prove to a few people that that little knife would do everything a huge knife would, then I told them about the new policy and that to put their knives in their vehicle if they had a blade over 4 inches, and a few guys went a did it, after that I gave them those stupid little box cutters and they used them last night and they realized 1. how bad those safety razor knives were and 2. They realized how bad they really needed a knife at work and I asked if they had knives smaller than 4 inches and 3 did and 1 didn't, So I'm going to be taking him a Kershaw needs work tonight so he can still have a knife.

 

[Confederate]

I worked in an office full of women and once I was asked to go see the boss. Seems one of the women in the outer office had seen me open a large package with my 5-inch Cold Steel Voyager. So the boss asked me not to bring knives to work as they weren't necessary for my job.

I argued that I'd always carried a knife to work and that I used it frequently. She asked to see my knife and I was prepared. I dug into my pocket and produced my 3-inch CS Voyager, which looks an awful lot like the 5-inch, just smaller.

Bottom line...I got to keep my knives, although discretion was now called for. Because I walked home in the afternoon and was recently set upon by two dogs who worked in tandem to try to try to bring me down, ever since I've routinely carried a 5- or 6-inch Voyager, but for work carried the 5-incher. That's the knife they saw, and the 3-incher I also carried was the knife they thought they saw! Strange how the mind works.

Anyway, I asked, why do the secretaries use scissors with 7-9-inch blades and it's not an issue, while if I carry a smaller pocket knife it is? Pull the things apart and you've got two knives, both bigger than mine.

You know what? Women don't think in logical terms like that. So I resorted to trickery and outright deception. In my previous office full of men, there were no issues. Imagine that.

 

[MadMullet]

Im the owner of a smaller construction company and my knife policy is you better have one. You will get harassed all day if you forget your Pocket knife or flashlight. We do alot of residential work and have not sacred off the timed house wife yet. I do ask my guys to lock up their pistols in the truck while on the jib site. Dont need a gun falling out when climbing around such. I even went as far as ordering 6 custom griptilains from Benchmade for my company's 50th year anniversary last year and gave them out to select long term employes

 

[Allen R.]

Im the owner of a smaller construction company and my knife policy is you better have one. You will get harassed all day if you forget your Pocket knife or flashlight. We do alot of residential work and have not sacred off the timed house wife yet. I do ask my guys to lock up their pistols in the truck while on the jib site. Dont need a gun falling out when climbing around such. I even went as far as ordering 6 custom griptilains from Benchmade for my company's 50th year anniversary last year and gave them out to select long term employes

Good for you Sir, As knife nuts we need to stand up for our beliefs that knives are tools not weapons , and show just how valuable they are in everyday tasks, If we sit quietly and do nothing then people will just strip away our right to carry a cutting tool, I feel It's kind of like my duty to stand up and say no knives are tools and are very useful, yes they can be used as weapons, but responsible knife owners need to stand up for what they believe in and show just how much of an asset a good cutting tool is , otherwise our right to carry a cutting tool may just be stripped away from us...

 

[Daniel Dorn]

As a gov't worker, the limit is 2.5" for employees, and 0" for guests. I get away with larger, as it's considered a tool-of-the-trade and is used for opening boxes, cubitainers and cutting the occasional wire or pallet tape. Largest I regularly carry is a Benchmade 790LFTi @ 4"

I also know the security guards quite well, and will bring in my newest aquisistions to show off, no matter the size. But the big 'uns usually go back home.

 

[stabman]

Canada does have a no weapons policy, but it also has a knives are tools policy. All knives are tools no matter what size, the only factor that changes is user intent. I carry a Manix 2 xl at work but I'm a telecom tech and don't have a boss over my shoulder but I'm sure if he saw my knife he would be more interested in it than afraid of it.

:thumbup:
Earlier in the week my Emerson CQC-12 did solid duty as a "science knife" in the lab.
One of the vacuum hoses in the lab got an elbow joint busted off in it, so the head lab tech said "You have that big knife with you right? That should work."
I normally hate combo edges, but as the hose was so old it had gone to extreme hardness, the sawing action was the only way through.
Turned out the hose had lost all elasticity and we could not get a new connector into it, but the knife made finding that out quick rather than wasting all sorts of time.