I learned the hard way not to carry my Victorinox SwissTool in the pouch on my belt in my office. And ours is a casual workplace, where jeans are the norm, so a belt sheath shouldn't have looked out of place. I was summoned into my manager's office and told that when I walked into the lunchroom earlier in the day, that one of the women felt threatened when she thought I had a knife on my belt. Never mind that I didn't approach this woman or even get within 100 feet of her and the tool was covered up in the nylon sheath. I had to sit in my manager's office and talk to human resources and explain why I was carrying a 'weapon' at work. I thought I was going to be fired. After assuring my manager that this was a tool that happened to have a knife blade in it, they told me if I would take it home and not bring it back, I would be in compliance with the 'no weapon policy' of our workplace and there would be no further problem. I did so, but only after explaining that several other employees had similar multitools on their belts or desks, but to no avail. I was a 'threatening' employee! I learned several months later that this was a personal vendetta from another employee that had prompted this woman to complain about me -- this person was trying to get me fired but was unsuccessful. And all during that several month period that my multitool sat at home, I still noticed other employees having theirs with no problem or complaint. I asked one of them why he was allowed to have one and I got in trouble -- he explained that he carries it in his pocket and not in the sheath, if it's not seen, someone can't complain about it. So that is the procedure I use now, no sheath, and nobody knows I have it. Never mind that your basic cell phone case looks just like a nylon sheath for a multitool and most employees have those, oh well. Such is life in the corporate world.