What knife can you get away with carring at work?

My department allows any "folder with a blade capable of being locked in the open position." Blade length is not specified. That being said, I carry a Cold Steel X2 Voyager in my sap pocket and a Spyderco Harpy in my right back pocket.

BTW, thanks to the OP and at least one other responder to this thread for using the correct phrase, "I couldn't care less." I get so tired of people saying "I could care less." Sorry, I just had to vent a little.......
 
riversidedep said:
My department allows any "folder with a blade capable of being locked in the open position." Blade length is not specified. That being said, I carry a Cold Steel X2 Voyager in my sap pocket and a Spyderco Harpy in my right back pocket.

BTW, thanks to the OP and at least one other responder to this thread for using the correct phrase, "I couldn't care less." I get so tired of people saying "I could care less." Sorry, I just had to vent a little.......
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I could care less about your venting.



(since tone is impossible to convey online, this is my clumsy way of agreeing with you.)
 
Caried many
SAK, Delica, Persistence, Tenacious, UKPK, Leatherman Juice, Buck vantage, Kershaw Chill, skyline, Benchmade griptillian, mini-grip, RAT 1

I don't know about regulations, but I don't care either. Since I'm in an office environment I carry preferably under 4" / gents folders and keep it low profile. Once had a colleague freaking out because I wanted to cut a birthday cake with my SAK ("you got a knife, why? that's a weapon, its dangerous, it's illegal" --> "Why; to cut cake and prepare lunch... Weapon; everything can be used as weapon if you have bad intentions. The chemicals we have in our lab are more dangerous"). He got the point and felt a bit stupid after.

Other time I had a nice discussion with a good colleague and tried to explain her about safety orange (when I showed my UKPK), she didn't care I was carrying a knife, but didn't get the point about the safety orange.
So sometimes I wonder does safety orange actually work or is it just in our mind. Actually it sometimes seems it triggers more question when I'm using my UKPK in safery orange.
 
This will make you laugh. I work at a military base and the new rule is that no knife can have a blade over 1.5". Yup an inch and a half. So working at a dive school technicaly we are not aloowed to have our dive knives. I still carry a spyderco H1 and RAT-3.
 
I can carry anything where I work luckily! So since I usually work with cardboard a lot I have my Para Military 2 most of the time. My Gayle Bradley and Benchmade 950 Rift get some pocket time too though.
 
I can carry what ever I want where I work. Sometimes I will carry my bk11 in a sheath that I made on my belt. But mostly I carry a slipjoint and a modern folder also carry my pistol sometimes to. My boss doesn't mind at all, he even give me a Rock River Iron Hide Fighter as a gift of appreciation. Oh and I work in a doctors office.
 
I wait tables for a living. I find myself still using a knife about every other day. For cutting open boxes, using the handle to smash through syrup container openings, and a couple other things.

One time all I had was a Benchmade Barrage on me with black coating when my Boss said "Your a smart fella, open this." It was a cutting board with plastic around it. So i discreetly opened it and palmed most the knife while I gave it one long cut then put it up. All he said was " I didn't know you carried a knife."

So there seems to be no problem, even though this one kid likes to say "easy killer" any time I use a knife. He prefers to use pens for all his cutting duties.

I carry a back up blade, but typically because of speed I use my main folders for everything. Just so much quicker.

In order of frequency of carry- Military, Para 2, Griptilian(black), Barrage, 551H2O(orange).
 
I'm a quasi-corporate worker (engineer), and work really doesn't have a knife policy. I alternate between a Leathermen Micra and a Vic Deluxe Tinker depending on what I've got planned for the day.
 
I saw a SF guy carrying around a shot ninja sword once. That being said, i don't have any limitations on what i can carry (blade wise). I have been carrying this one on my belt when im out working.

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Being that im a minimalist, i keep it simple.
Horizontal izula on the belt, Falkniven U2 in my left cargo pocket, opinel 8 in my right cargo pocket, endura wave in my front left pocket, and my orange millie in my front right pocket.

All day, every day. I work road construction, ive only had my superintendant negatively comment on my millie once, then his buck 110 went duller than a butter knife, suddenly my 'pocket machete' as he called it made sense to him. Silt fence would dull a vorpal blade in minutes.
 
Any thing i want i am currently laid off but when i go back i will finish my tomahawk i have been working on.They provided the hunk of S7,i am a tool and die maker and can make anything i want. Yay for me
 
tempey said:
I am an assistant manager at a pool so I am not supposed to carry anything, you know knives around kids and all. That being said I do carry a tinker, my bosses weren't super happy about it until I started fixing stuff with it, now they don't care about it as long as that is all I bring.
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I'm an Aquatics supervisor. We have a weapons policy of under 3" I carry and use a knife all day every day on boxes/zip ties/rope etc. Kids should never be near my stuff but you can always use it as an teachable moment if they see you using it in a safe manner.


I usually carry my SOG twitch II or a CRKT APCII but I have been known to bring my Eskabar.
 
I work at a high school. I carry a small traditional slipjoint (either a Case peanut or GEC #25), which looks elegant and unfrightening. I also keep a Vic Spirit multitool in my bag. I have had penty of occasions to use them over the years, and have only once heard a negative comment.
 
I carry a Buck 303 in my front pocket.I also carry a Opinel #9 in my back pocket along side my wallet.
 
Anything that's legal, soooo....
Anything but balis and autos, and I can get away with those with a CCW.
I love my state.
Crafty- It was invented for hunters. We have to wear blaze/safety orange vests and hats to comply with the gov'ment. It was invented so that hunters could see each other easily, and know what they were looking at, so they didn't think we were animals and shoot us. In my state it has decreased accidental shootings by 90% last time I checked.
 
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Foilist said:
I work at a high school. I carry a small traditional slipjoint (either a Case peanut or GEC #25), which looks elegant and unfrightening. I also keep a Vic Spirit multitool in my bag. I have had penty of occasions to use them over the years, and have only once heard a negative comment.
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Yeah I'm a high school teacher so I'm always skating the line. I think about it this way: it needs to be small and look the least scary/like a weapon. With that in mind, I've got a little Buck Scholar (a very unimposing little guy) in my pocket and my Leatherman Charge TTI in my bag. It's vacation so I've got my Izula in my bag too, but I definitely need to remove that before we go back to school as that would obviously not go over well at all. When I was student teaching I got some snarky comments from my supervising teacher about my Scholar (and he was a former Marine -- go figure), and my students always say something when I take one of them out... until I use the Leatherman to tighten a nut on a desk or the Scholar to remove a staple. Students clearly aren't allowed to have any knives, and I'd imagine I could technically get some flack for having any of them, but I think I could justify their use.

I've got an eye out for a Dragonfly G10 since I think it fits my small, not scary/"weaponish".
 
Foilist said:
I work at a high school. I carry a small traditional slipjoint (either a Case peanut or GEC #25), which looks elegant and unfrightening. I also keep a Vic Spirit multitool in my bag. I have had penty of occasions to use them over the years, and have only once heard a negative comment.
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Yeah I'm a high school teacher so I'm always skating the line. I think about it this way: it needs to be small and look the least scary/like a weapon. With that in mind, I've got a little Buck Scholar (a very unimposing little guy) in my pocket and my Leatherman Charge TTI in my bag. It's vacation so I've got my Izula in my bag too, but I definitely need to remove that before we go back to school as that would obviously not go over well at all. When I was student teaching I got some snarky comments from my supervising teacher about my Scholar (and he was a former Marine -- go figure), and my students always say something when I take one of them out... until I use the Leatherman to tighten a nut on a desk or the Scholar to remove a staple. Students clearly aren't allowed to have any knives, and I'd imagine I could technically get some flack for having any of them, but I think I could justify their use.

I've got an eye out for a Dragonfly G10 since I think it fits my small, not scary/"weaponish".
 
my job requires a folding knife,fixed blade,machetes and multi tool.so I carry all of those in my work truck at all times and the folding knife in my pocket....I work as a supervisor/manager for a landscaping company.
 
i'm a cook, and even tho we're around knives all the time, some of my co-workers are a bit sensitive to the idea of me having a blade on my person. i usually EDC my tenacious or blue delica 4 ffg. the delica seems to unanimously be the least threatening of the knives i've brought in.
 
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