Horrible National Knife Day for Me

[ValueKnifeLover]

A guy I work with is just now getting into knives. He got a Kershaw Skyline a while back and we were talking about him getting a Tenacious or something in that price range for his first Spydie.

Anyways, this guy who is new to knives was apparently not paying attention when he was opening something small today... slipped (I'm assuming) and sliced his finger pretty good (4 stitches worth).

He is ok thankfully. But now the owner has pretty much banned all knives except small slipjoints (even that was a stretch) because of the event. They kept referring to our HUGE HUNTING knives we bring to work and how unnecessary they are for anything really. They forget how many boxes and packages and stuff we open and break down daily. They also have box cutters... which are 50 cent plastic pieces of crap that fall apart and are rusted almost completely through. So we will see how stupid well build knives are when someone really hurts themselves with those infections waiting to happen. I just hate when the tool is blamed for some mistake a person has made and now everyone is inconvenienced.

Anyways, needless to say my day of celebrating knives wasn't so great. And in case you were wondering... My HUGE HUNTING KNIFE today... was my Green Delica FFG (luckily I left my Manix2 at home or all **** might have broken loose).

[BDNX]

I understand your pain..used to work for FedEx...and beingat an airport you weren't allowed to bring in ANY knives at all. Worked there for eight years....soooooo glad I don't anymore...and that is one of the main reasons....

[ValueKnifeLover]

I understand your pain..used to work for FedEx...and beingat an airport you weren't allowed to bring in ANY knives at all. Worked there for eight years....soooooo glad I don't anymore...and that is one of the main reasons....

Yeah I can't imagine working at an airport. Especially within the past decade of insanity called TSA :eek: . I feel so naked whenever I can't have a blade on me. It's just a weird feeling.

[Halfneck]

Use to be I could carry what I wanted at work. Right pocket would be a Spyderco/Emerson/Kershaw and the left would be my Victorinox Compact. Then a new employee was found to be bringing her Concealed Carry Pistol into the office in her purse. I'm all for CCW rights, but company policy does state no firearms allowed. Thanks to her screw-up a e-mail was sent banning all weapons in the office. I love how we are a law office and the wording of the e-mail was so vague.

So my Work EDC is now my Victorinox Compact. Human Resources semi OK'ed it, but never officially came out an said it or sent an e-mail. Told them that if I decided to snap I'd kill someone with the Scissors or Letter Opener they gave me rather than my SAK.

[jackknifeh]

Sometimes people in management feel when something bad happens, especially something safety related a "management" action needs to happen. It helps justify their place in a company. That last statement is only 10% true. The place in a company is needed. But to put a policy in effect that will not help is pretty dumb. But, they may think doing nothing is anti-productive. I think a good safety briefing policy would be a better action. Just a reminder to be careful. Sometimes those briefings are laughed at but those are the ones that are remembered.

Jack

[v8r]

I recently had a fellow coworker tell me "I was reading the employee handbook and it said that weapons are not allowed, and your knife might be considered a weapon." I told him my knife is not a weapon unless I choose to use it as such, and a knife is simply a tool to me. I then said should they tell me my mind is not allowed. Then I explained to him what I meant, and how many common objects laying around could be used as a weapon just as easily. I told him a common ball point pen,scissors, letter opener, clip board, and even a chair could be quite dangerous when used as a weapon.

[On Edge]

Careful there, v8r, they'll have you sitting on the floor soon!

[jackknifeh]

I recently had a fellow coworker tell me "I was reading the employee handbook and it said that weapons are not allowed, and your knife might be considered a weapon." I told him my knife is not a weapon unless I choose to use it as such, and a knife is simply a tool to me. I then said should they tell me my mind is not allowed. Then I explained to him what I meant, and how many common objects laying around could be used as a weapon just as easily. I told him a common ball point pen,scissors, letter opener, clip board, and even a chair could be quite dangerous when used as a weapon.

Careful there, v8r, they'll have you sitting on the floor soon!

I've heard v8r sits down a lot at work anyway. The floor is no big deal. :D

Sorry v8, just kidding.

Jack

[dcrutch8]

At the power company I work for the "offical company knife" is the cable splicer's knife. I use a Klien model 44200. There have been untold numbers of safety bullitiens about knife saftey and that this is the only type of knife you can use. I still carry a Delica but I have to be very careful where and when I use it. The company still hasn't forrbidden you to carry any other knife yet, but I wouldn't be suprised if it did happen.

I will say that the klien is a great knife for stripping fiber , cat 5 and phone cable. It doesn't seem to keep a sharp edge that i like and I have to sharpen it frequently.

[Evil D]

You can cut yourself just as bad with a cheap razor knife as you can a HUGE HUNTING KNIFE lol.

[v8r]

I've heard v8r sits down a lot at work anyway. The floor is no big deal. :D

Sorry v8, just kidding.

Jack

Bahahaha! Actually I stand most of the day. it would be nice to sit every once in a while.

[ChapmanPreferred]

I get more cuts from cardboard than I do knives.

[v8r]

Maybe they should ban Cardboard? Wouldn't want anyone to get cut. Maybe they should put us all in a padded room with every object in it blunted so as not to hurt ourselves.

[Evil D]

I get more cuts from cardboard than I do knives.

Man, you should work in a corrugation factory sometime. When sheets of corrugated (cardboard to the general public) come off the machine that makes them (the corrugator lol) it slices the sheets from one huge sheet that's about 12 feet wide, and that slice leaves the paper literally razor sharp. I've never seen paper so sharp that it would actually cut printer paper but some of it was rigid enough to cut paper with paper. When you work on box machines that handle the blank sheets after they've been made, you get cut all the time. The worst part is, you're feeding in handfuls of blank sheets, as many as you can pick up at once, so when you do get cut you get 20 or so paper cuts in the palm of your hand all at the same time. You're also not allowed to wear gloves because they increase the risk of being pulled into machines.

Of the 3 years i spent working in that industry, i never once got cut by my knife, but i was cut by paper 100s of times and once by a screw sticking out of a machine that cost me 14 stitches.

[Zendemic]

Sad to hear about your misfortune ValueKnifeLover. It seems like that day in age where outright banning these "weapons" looks good to most people, then they are stuck with attempting to open their clam shell packages with their keys! Personally i never really understood this whole "better safety through management" deal. If people just took responsibility for their own actions and stopped to think every now and again there would be a lot less accidents. None the less we all mess up sometimes and rather then freaking out at a cut, we should use such accidents as learning experiences ( I bet that guy won't play with his "HUGE HUNTING KNIFE" like that again).

Thankfully i'm in the line of work where i use my knife every day and am encouraged to. Unless i'm around a patient, no one ever looks at me like I'm a psychopath if i use my Military to open a letter or box.

[Ankerson]

I get more cuts from cardboard than I do knives.

Same here....

Cardboard will lay open your skin in a real hurry if ones not careful.

[D1omedes]

Same here....

Cardboard will lay open your skin in a real hurry if ones not careful.

Very true. I used to work in retail and unload the trucks. Opening and moving cardboard boxes is rough on your hands and leaves you with dirty, jagged cuts. A good sharp blade is a needed in that environment. Luckily, my supervisor at the time was cool and let me use my :spyder: 's. :D

[Simple Man]

Yup, and it it has to be, I'd rather get cut by a knife than cardboard, as it tends to hurt like the dickens. Anytime I nick myself with a knife, it is painless and usually blood is the only sigh of a problem.

(although the last decent cut I got, I somehow managed to do it on pasta....)

[Ankerson]

Very true. I used to work in retail and unload the trucks. Opening and moving cardboard boxes is rough on your hands and leaves you with dirty, jagged cuts. A good sharp blade is a needed in that environment. Luckily, my supervisor at the time was cool and let me use my :spyder: 's. :D

I use both my Box cutter and a knife depending on what it is and what I need to do. Some stuff is a real PITA with a box cutter and I use the knife for those things. Really though these days I cut more plastic than cardboard because cutting open boxes is slower than popping them open.

[D1omedes]

I use both my Box cutter and a knife depending on what it is and what I need to do. Some stuff is a real PITA with a box cutter and I use the knife for those things. Really though these days I cut more plastic than cardboard because cutting open boxes is slower than popping them open.

I hear ya. We were never given box cutters. I know, very ghetto. I guess they wanted us to buy our own but I wasn't going to do that since I had some good pocket knives. Most of my cutting was done on the plastic tape that kept the boxes closed. Not too much resistance. Just left a lot of residue on the blade.

Every so often, I needed to cut through the cardboard. That was true of the washers/dryers that were sold. The Spydies worked great. :D