The leatherman has long been the staple of the IT worker, no matter if your the tech who actually touches the hardware or the admin/programmer/etc, you always had a leatherman. I carried mine for a years and had a manager who told me he has no problem with it but took his off his belt when one of his friends was let go. He thought HR was looking for a reason to let him go and found out he carried a knife so they made that the reason.