So I took out a small GEC congress to cut a piece of tape at work yesterday ...

VorpelSword said:
In the 1990s, I transitioned from doing oil field related fgield work to doing diagnostic imaging in hospitals. I found that my Buck 110 was just too much kn ife for EDC in that employment context. My EDC became a Leatherman (original) and later on a Wave. Far more versatile.

And yet at least one of my female co-workers daily carried a sizable folder for self-defense clipped to the3 waistband of her scrubs.
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Double standard problem, won't get after a woman for it, but men are ogres and aggressive, therefore we have nothing but life ending "weapons" on us, in their heads anyway
 
ShaiHulud said:
Double standard problem, won't get after a woman for it, but men are ogres and aggressive, therefore we have nothing but life ending "weapons" on us, in their heads anyway
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My wife never used to carry a knife in her purse. There was a potential active shooter lockdown in the facility she works at. That evening she asked for something to carry, she now has a RAT2 in her work bag.
 
I use to carry a stainless steel police with a plain edge when I worked for a security company that provided asset protection for grocery stores way back in the day, after a series of events unrelated to it I had to leave the job and one of my friends told me that a lot of people made comments about the knife and called me violent for carrying it.
I will say this
(I never took the knife out even once)
but I've still been roped in with all the other violent criminals who prowl the streets all the same. People are extremely thick-headed these days.
 
I am a construction PM, and am constantly surprised by how few folks carry a knife. Personally I usually have some flavor of large SHF in my pocket, a Leatherman in my work bag, knives in the cars etc. I have carried a knife of some sort since I was a kid, and feel naked without one.
 
I normally carry my kershaw leek to work, never seems to get a 2nd glance,

but the other day I had my spydy gb2, and got looks when I used it to open a large computer box...

I just made a snide comment about the efficiency of using a key to try hack all the tape, and I should be commended for doing it 3x faster, you know efficiency & productivity & all that
 
norcalAF said:
My wife never used to carry a knife in her purse. There was a potential active shooter lockdown in the facility she works at. That evening she asked for something to carry, she now has a RAT2 in her work bag.
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Yeah, a RAT2, or any folder isn't my preferred option in an active killer situation. My Sig P365x is a far better choice, and is always on me at work. I work in an office environment where our leadership has a brain, and offers a class that allows us to carry at work.
 
WedgeAntilles said:
Yeah, a RAT2, or any folder isn't my preferred option in an active killer situation. My Sig P365x is a far better choice, and is always on me at work. I work in an office environment where our leadership has a brain, and offers a class that allows us to carry at work.
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My wife works on a military base, no CCW and a fixed blade would raise a lot of eyebrows in the clinic
 
ShaiHulud said:
People are extremely thick-headed these days.
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That is definitely true.
It is really hard to understand why someone would be afraid of a small traditional folder. There is something wrong in their minds and they have probably been watching the wrong kind of TV. I would ask that person if they have any knives in their kitchen that aren't larger than that. I'm sure in our break room at work there are larger kitchen knives in the drawers, and when we used to bring in a cake each month to celebrate the birthdays that month they would cut the cake with a full size chef knife. I normally carry a PM2 or Manix 2 and I've cut open packages and sliced apples with nobody paying any attention to me.
 
I often think the great divide in this country is not Republican/Democrat but rather urban/rural. Round here most of the women carry knives too.

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What is normal every day tools round here is dangerous weapons other places.
 
catspa said:
Why would you continue to work at a place where they clearly don’t deserve you?

Parker
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If that was directed at me, what makes you think I continued to work there? I waited outside HR for my manager, told him I would not work with that *#$@/!. I was off for the next two weeks so he had that long to get me transferred to a facility we were in the process of merging with...and told him where I was going if there wasn't a spot for me at that place.

I didn't see any reason to point out to any of the involved parties that I always carried a folder (including during my HR meeting).
 
Lansky1 said:
Let me preface by saying ... I work an office job in NJ. I heard one of the ladies behind me talking to her friend saying "I don't feel safe". I've had a pocket knife with me every day since I was 11 years old when my dad got me my first (circa 1975) ... such a messed up state of affairs we live in today. I wouldn't be surprised if I get an invitation to the H-R office any day now ...
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In my humble opinion, you should have pulled out a Busse instead.
 
ShaiHulud said:
Double standard problem, won't get after a woman for it, but men are ogres and aggressive, therefore we have nothing but life ending "weapons" on us, in their heads anyway
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Interestingly, I was with a Resident ( a "new" medical doctor) who was attending a patient I was imaging with isotope. There arose a need to disconnect his oxygen feed from a small tank and connect him to the wall O2 supply. To do this I had to connect a new tube to the existing one to make it reach cross the room. This is properly done with a little fiddly fitting that is always somewhere else. So I cut one end at an angle and jammed it into the other tube. This always worked but is inelegant and a bush-fix.

The Resident objected to the procedure insisting on doing it the "right" way, but I kept on getting set up to do it. Acquiescing on the grounds of expediency, he began fumbling for his bandage scissors . . .and was horrified when I pulled out that Buck 110. did a one hand open on the edge of my pocket, cut the Nagelian tubing in one motion and pocketed the folded knife in another. He actually spluttered in indignation at this unprofessional display of macho-ism. . . . then too, there was my accompanying remark that scissors were a "girly tool".

And so, eventually I did move to a multi-tool which was perceived as being more professional in the context of my daily work.
 
Lansky1 said:
Let me preface by saying ... I work an office job in NJ. I heard one of the ladies behind me talking to her friend saying "I don't feel safe". I've had a pocket knife with me every day since I was 11 years old when my dad got me my first (circa 1975) ... such a messed up state of affairs we live in today. I wouldn't be surprised if I get an invitation to the H-R office any day now ...
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Approach the lady and say, "I overheard that you don't feel safe. (Pull out your knife and brandish it) Well, I'll protect you."
 
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