paranoia in the workplace

coursr i live in wv, but where i work is a job corps center, the student are not allowed anything that could be easiliy used as a weapon including ratatil combs, well it is well known by te stude pop that i like edged tools etc., so this kid shows me his blades, i have to report him because he won't let me hold them for him we discuss it and he will get them back when he goes home for a pass, anyway he could have been terminated from the program but since he was cool and gave them up volutary that won't happen. The Center dir then asked about knives , she knows i carry several and i pulled out the 2i had tat day and the other staff piulledout 1 or 2 and she went looking for her folder in te drawer of her desk, I guess its just a wv thing, but we felt bad about taking his blade even though one was definatly designed as aconsealed weapon 9double edged dagger in a kubaton, and we have a zero tolerence policy on weapons

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I guess I'm one of the fortunate ones. I work in a 300,000 sq. ft. Kitchen cutlery warehouse, so I "blend" a little better.

I've yet to have anyone freak out about my 2 Balisongs, or my SIFU, or my Bear Claw, or my 710 Axis, or my "Q", or.........

I DO get a strange look every now and then from my boss though, Hmmmmmmmm......... coincidence??



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When people make stupid comments about my knives I all ways say "And you don't have one single knife in your kitchen?" They then say something like of course but thats different. To which I say "Is it? explain it to me I'm listening.". Some of the things then said are quite laughable except they are to sad.
Bob

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OH MY GOD Brian, I can only pray that I'm never put into a similar situation. That guy would have hit the floor about half a second after my knife if that had been me! And then he has the nerve to tell your boss that you're the potential threat?! Who's the one showing violent tendencies here? Man, I'm sorry that you or anyone else has to deal with a work environment like that. I'm a 16 year old male (seen by many as 'gangbanging menace to society') and after working at Wal-Mart for 6 months the only comments I've had on my knives have been positive. One of the people greeters mentioned how it was nice to be "well prepared" when she noticed me cutting apart some bags that had melted together with a small stockman. I try to keep them low key of course, more along the lines of CRKT PECK than Sifu, but I do carry a Buck Odyssey pretty regularly. Even loaned it once to a customer who was having trouble opening up a package. Overall though I have only good things to say, thank God. And not to sound repetitive, but Brian, you must have some SERIOUS willpower and I commend you for not doing what I would have.
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Just because I talk to myself does not make me crazy. Now, when I listen to myself, that makes me crazy.
 
I guess I've been fortunate! I've worked in corporate offices in downtown LA and now in another corporate building in Torrance, but have never gotten any grief about my knives, from my gents folders to the large Sebenza I carry on casual days. I've gotten a few remarks, but I'd call them more amused than disparaging. I get more of a reaction from my computer wallpaper (same as my sig file) than I do from my knives!
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I work on a farm right now so of course knives are well accepted. The new guy that was hired last summer didn't carry one and he was deemed the nickname worthless. That was for several reasons though- he was a city boy who thought he knew how to run a farm and wouldn't shut his mouth.He didn't carry a knife or multi tool and asked to borrow ours regularly (1 or 2 times a day), then when I asked him why he didn't have a knife of his own he said" I don't need one" And for a lot of other stupid things he did, like insisting that the hay wagons we had weren't really hay wagons because they didn't have racks on the side, begging us to let him go in the hayloft and work where it ws 120 degrees and he had proven he couldn't handle it, and bragging about how tough he was.
There have been times when people gave me strange looks though. And my daily carry is only a delica half serrated and a gerber multi tool. I think the worst was when was at a horse show and a woman asked me if I had a knife. She wanted to cut some of that plastic disposable table cloth. Knowing she would need something scary sharp to cut that without it tearing, I gave her the delica instead of the gerber. Then came the "look at that wicked thing", "what do you need THAT for"," If I'm ever in a pinch I want you on my side".She took it and cut the table cloth though.It slid through it like paper and she held the knife by the very butt of the handle with 2 fingers to hand it back to me. What the hell lady, you asked to borrrow it. What do I need it for? Didn't you just use it to cut a table cloth? Theres just way to many idiots in the world.

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I work as a forklift driver in a Costco warehouse in California. I've never had any problems about my knives, and I normally use one instead of a boxcutter. The worst I've ever heard was the "wouldn't want to run into you in a dark alley" comment. There are a few of us who carry knives there, and I can happily say that I got a couple of them started. Neither customers nor coworkers have ever had any knid of complaint. I suppose I'm lucky.
Dave

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As far as academic types, probably the most tolerant of knives and such are geology professors. Them and archeologists. Both spend inordinate amounts of time in the field mucking around and know damn well that you better come prepared. (All the geologists I've known/heard about are all hard-core partiers in the field, so they know to bring multitools with bottle openers. :-)

Funny, the workplace was what first led me to get a good knife. I did an internship for a summer with the engineering department and a power plant. One of the engineers I worked with said, "You gotta get a good knife." He sure was right. Since I was working all over the place at that gigantic plant, if I didn't remember to bring the utility knife, I was screwed since it was a ten minute kawasaki Mule ride back to the office to get it.

My technique for dampening the "eek" reaction is to be utterly causal/purposeful about using my knife, and say as little as possible when I get it out. I don't say, "Need a knife?" Just say, "Here, I'll do it," and then quickly and quietly put the knife away afterwards. That technique seems to work. The less I make of it, the less inclined others seem to be about getting excited about it. They may still think, "Oh my," to themselves, but at least they don't feel compelled to say it and start a stupid conversation.
 
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