Workplace Misadventures with knives?

[VampyreWolf]

seeing lots of these out there. The times your coworker saw your knife, your boss, your supervisor... and the attempted reprimand.

I'll start... After 9/11, my boss(I worked at Burger King) came up to me. I was working my night shift, using my Cricket on boxes. She told me calmly I was not to have knives on the BK property, and was on grounds for termination. I spent the next week or so asking for the xacto in the office every time I wanted to cut open a box. I still carried the Cricket or Delica to work... Well, about early Oct some idiot was taking our $5 kitchen knives(those never-sharp ones), and everyone was forced to use pens and screwdrivers to open boxes and packages.
Mid-October, a month or so since I was told to leave my knives at home, They needed prep done, and had nothing to cut the onions with, as the knife they had at lunch was gone at 6pm. Who do you think they came to? My location boss came up an asked me sheepishly if I still had my knife at work. I saw them looking around for the kitchen one, and swearing load enough the customers probably heard them... I just smiled and went back to my meal. Ended up getting the Regional boss(just about 5minutes to her location from ours) in to ask me. I finished my meal, got her word IN WRITTING AND WITH 2 WITNESSES SIGNING(my location boss and her top manager), saying I was allowed to carry a knife for my work(Maintanance). The I took out the Delica and cut up the onions.

My manager wasn't too happy with me for taking so long, but I refused to do anything without written consent from the highest up I could reach(the regional one could also fire my boss for going against her word).

EDIT: I walked out of BK on November 16th, 10:55pm, my shift started at 11pm.

 

[Sticky]

People have been fully and successfully brainwashed into believing small metal inantimate objects are the cause of all evil. It is amazing. A knife is a tool?! who woulda thunkit!
BTW, my work used to really frown on knives as well, but I have since left that company(largest IC chip maker, rhymes with inhell) for various reasons. Companies shift policies with whatever the pc climate is at the time, unfortunately, common sense is thrown out the window. I couldn't take anymore at work, where if you are a man and you have a boyfriend, your "lifemate" gets full benefits. If you are a guy and has a girlfriend, she is out of luck. Carry a tiny knife and you are obviously a killer. We're in bizzaro world.

btw, nice work vamp!

 

[Manwe]

this thread is gonna grow fast!

 

[Charlie Mike]

While I was in college, I had a job with the campus PD as a surveillance camera operator and an assitant to dispatch. I carried a M16-14 and a 2 blade SAK stockman. The officers all carried knves as well, mostly Spydies and an Autostryker. When I discovered BFC, I bought a Buck Strider and it never occured to me to hold onto the M16. One of the cops was a Navy reservist in a Specwar unit. He liked the M16 and bought it from me. Pretty cool huh? I thought so, at the time. The next semester had a different schedule so I had to quit my job at the PD. A month later I got arrested because someone who was not a dorm or even a student said I was showing him a handgun in my dorm room. They found no gun but I did have my SB1. CSUF allows folders up to 5". Penal code 626.10(b) says you can't have a fixed blade on campus larger than 2.5". Well, the officers on duty said that when it is opened, it becomes a fixed blade... and therefore is illegal. The fact that I had it in plain site, closed in a belt case meant nothing. I got booked into jail and bailed out. I had about 6 months of waiting for court dates. It ended up getting thrown out by the judge, who said no laws were broken. I got my knife back and said good riddance to the CSUF PD.

$hit happens and it really pisses you off, but when you can do nothing about it, it really pisses you off.

 

[mtnbkr]

No problems at all here. I'm a contractor working on a govt IT project. Most people know I collect knives and carry one daily. I don't hide it, I don't apologize for it.

Chris

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Working for the Goverment my tools are supplied for me, in my maintenace tool kit was a cheap Colonial Electricians knife, I gave it away as soon as I got the kit,(I'll probably have to replace it when I leave/retire and working for the goverment it'll cost me $200 at the price they pay).

Now my EDC's are BM 730, and BM AFCK, along with what ever I grab from my knife drawer, usually a 2 blade slip joit and a smaller lock back. My boss asked once why I'd carry $200-$300 worth of knives when the County provided me with a knife, and made sure I understood that if I lost or broke my personal blades they would not replace them. But I said I'll carry them anyway, you know what everytime someone needs a sharp knife guess who the come to?

Once I was cutting some excess electrical tape of of a splice and the tip of the knife slid through the tape and barely touched my finger resulting in a nice clean slice, my boss said if that had been a county issued knife that never would happened, I laughed and said yea all I would have got was a bad bruise.