Knives at your workplace.

I work for a small IT company, we have some rural clients and every once in a while I'll end up on the road for a few hours, so I have a bit of an emergency kit in my car with a fixed blade Mora and some other minor stuff. As far as the office, we have a bit of a good ole boy attitude here so there's really no restrictions on what I carry, as long as I'm not stupid about it. Got a Military on me right now, although once in a while I'd bring in a ZT or my Kershaw Lahar or something else equally large. Hell, a few times I've brought my BK9, Ontario SP8 or Kershaw Camp 18 to show off, all in good fun. Had a bow here a few times cause I would go to the range after work and did not want to leave it in the car in the sun.
 
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Lets get back to the topic at hand. Really, the discussion of what is and what isn't a weapon et cetera should be saved for prac tac subforum.

Being in a family business, I carry whatever folder I want, so long as it doesn't make a noticeable print/bulge.
 
Just used my Valkyrie II to cut open a medication container and split the slip in half for a patient.
See, I need this knife:)
 
I work for a state agency in a cube farm too. I have never had a problem with blades around 3 inches long. We have a lot of hunters and fishermen in the building so many people are at ease around knives. During the in processing classes the question was brought up about knife size. The number tossed out was a 4 inch blade and we do have a lot of people who work out in the field. I suspect the agency I work for is more tolerant than some others because of so many people we have out in the field and their need for a good knife.
 
I calls 'em my Customer Relations Tools.
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I was brought before the HR department of our company and investigated because someone complained about my having knives and flicking them open and also showing them to coworkers, etc. Note that I'm in a construction job, a field position as it were, where knives and other tools are prevalent and necessary to complete our work. The company carrier various knives and other cutting tools in stores. For our use. I sharpen knives for some of my coworkers, which is one reason they were in plain view all the time, as I took them and returned them. Virtually everyone I work with carries a blade of one kind of another. My job was on the line.

The first question I was asked in the interview was, "Why do you need a knife?" I nearly threw up in my mouth. But since I didn't really do anything "wrong" or illegal, I was issued a formal warning to cease and desist from these behaviors. The whole experience was unbelievable. It was at that point that I realized that the P.C. culture in today's society had truly run amok. Sobering stuff.
 
Way back when I worked security at the hospital, the shift supervisor called me into the office.

"I hear you've been carrying a knife."
"yep.
"Well, you can't do that; leave it at home."
"Okay."

So I carried it anyway...I just dropped it to the bottom of the pocket before the supervisor (or suspected coworker rats) showed up. :)

Fast forward two months...
"We have to open all these boxes of stuff...can I borrow that knife of yours?"
"Sorry, it's at home...you said I couldn't carry it, remember?" :D (it was in my pocket, naturally)
 
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Way back when I worked security at the hospital, the shift supervisor called me into the office.

"I hear you've been carrying a knife."
"yep.
"Well, you can't do that; leave it at home."
"Okay."

So I carried it anyway...I just dropped it to the bottom of the pocket before the supervisor (or suspected coworker rats) showed up. :)

Fast forward two months...
"We have to open all these boxes of stuff...can I borrow that knife of yours?"
"Sorry, it's at home...you said I couldn't carry it, remember?" :D (it was in my pocket, naturally)
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There are no specific rules against carrying a knife at my workplace, except that at my large corporation if you work in the factory you are not allowed to use your own cutting device.

In such a case you are required to use the company supplied cutting tool.

In my case, I work in the office and I can use my own cutting device.

Interestingly (maybe), I exercise good common sense, and I use my Vic waiter when I need to cut something in the presence of someone that I am not CERTAIN will not be uneasy if I were to pull out whatever ZT I am carrying on me at the time.

By exercising the increasingly rare and unused common sense, I am able to prevent issues with my choice to carry and enjoy my knives, and life is good....for now.

best

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My workplace used to be a construction site; a knife was an unspoken necessity because contractors kept leaving doors open after hours with zip ties. Naturally, something had to be done about the contractors...;)

There are no rules about knife carry at my workplace, and carry is relatively common (I'd say between a quarter and a third of my coworkers carry knives). One of my coworkers carries a no name gas station folder on his belt that is obviously designed as a weapon, albeit a poor one if you ask me.

The folders I generally carry (and I never choose not to carry) have blades between 3.5 and 4 inches long, and are often but not always tactical in nature; sometimes I will carry a stockman, a SAK or a Buck 110 just because I feel like it.

I'd rather nobody at my workplace bring the subject up to management or supervisors, as things are just fine the way they are.

I hope my joke at the start of this post was properly understood as a joke. I really did have to cut a lot of zip ties, though. Nobody else carried at the time.
 
Three of us like knives. 1 is the boss. Company wise, knives are looked down on. Worried someone will go nuts.
 
My daily work setup is a Leatherman Wave, Bark River Bravo EDC and a Victorinox Tinker. If I know I'm going somewhere that the Bravo EDC will be frowned upon, I'll carry my PM2. I work commercial security service. Most places don't bat an eye at what I carry.
 
I worked for a government agency before retiring a few years ago. I carried a serrated Spyderco Endura daily when I first started working there and no one paid any attention or cared. As the years progressed and people became more and more paranoid--terrorism, workplace violence, etc.--"No Weapons" signs started popping up and attitudes changed. That was about the time the Security Industry was born.

By the time I retired, I kept my pocket knife out of sight. When members of the clerical staff needed to open boxes and asked around for someone with a knife, no one would admit to having one.
 
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