When I worked at a Toyota dealership as a salesman, they hired a mechanic who came to work on his first day, started unloading his tools, lit a cigarette, was told there was no smoking in the facility, loaded his tools back on his truck and left.

When I went to work at a Native American casino here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they supplied us with uniforms that had all the pockets sewn up. I slit all the pockets open, told my boss I was a HVAC-R technician that depended on his pockets regularly and was not going to wear uniforms with sewn pockets. I was allowed to keep my job and all subsequent maintenance mechanics (Not the slot and gambling machine repairmen.) were allowed to use their pockets or not.

It was not my stand alone (The great Frenchman Charles DeGaulle was quoted as saying that "Graveyards are full of indispensible individuals".) that allowed a variance in policy, but the fact that it made sense to my boss who sided with my view.

It all depends on what you will put up with. An employer that does not trust me with a reasonable (3" minimum.) knife on my person is not worried about it falling into the wrong hands, he just does not trust me.

As for cutting fruit and cake with a 2" bladed knife, having a knife that small is a good reason to give the fruit to the other guy and eat the whole cake while apologizing for not being able to cut and share the cake because your knife is too small. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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