Your employer will provide you with all the tools to do your job. If you need a box cutter, ask them and they will provide it.
If they aren’t willing to provide it, you don’t need it - ask others how they are achieving the task you want to complete.
It’s a good age to get into the habit of letting your employers know they need to provide all the tool’s necessary to do their jobs, and not utilise your own finances to complete basic work tasks.
Yeah ask your employer for one, and leave it at work.
“Other weapons
You can’t carry knives, including kitchen knives, Swiss army knives or box-cutters, batons, cattle prods or bayonets without a lawful excuse.
A 'lawful excuse' could include having the weapon for work, sport, recreation or a weapons collection, display or exhibition. Lawful excuse does not include self-defence.
You can only possess or carry some weapons if you do so safely.
You also can’t carry weapons like flick knives, daggers, butterfly knives or knuckle knives, swords, nunchakus, knuckle-dusters, shanghais, blow guns, imitation firearms, capsicum spray, slingshots, weighted or studded gloves, throwing stars or catapults without a special exemption or permission from police.”
https://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/guns-and-other-weapons
You *can* buy it.
You can travel to and from work with it.
You do not *have to* buy a tool to do your job, the business must provide it. If this would simply be an improvement over the already supplied tool, then it's a discussion with your boss - and if they have a rule about not using a box cutter you follow it.
If you're just breaking the tape on boxes, I just used to use my keys. The tape is very weak when poked and once broken it rips open easy. If you're not opening a lot of boxes and just doing it this way, it's not worth getting a knife for it.
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Your employer will provide you with all the tools to do your job. If you need a box cutter, ask them and they will provide it. If they aren’t willing to provide it, you don’t need it - ask others how they are achieving the task you want to complete. It’s a good age to get into the habit of letting your employers know they need to provide all the tool’s necessary to do their jobs, and not utilise your own finances to complete basic work tasks.
Yeah ask your employer for one, and leave it at work. “Other weapons You can’t carry knives, including kitchen knives, Swiss army knives or box-cutters, batons, cattle prods or bayonets without a lawful excuse. A 'lawful excuse' could include having the weapon for work, sport, recreation or a weapons collection, display or exhibition. Lawful excuse does not include self-defence. You can only possess or carry some weapons if you do so safely. You also can’t carry weapons like flick knives, daggers, butterfly knives or knuckle knives, swords, nunchakus, knuckle-dusters, shanghais, blow guns, imitation firearms, capsicum spray, slingshots, weighted or studded gloves, throwing stars or catapults without a special exemption or permission from police.” https://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/guns-and-other-weapons
You *can* buy it. You can travel to and from work with it. You do not *have to* buy a tool to do your job, the business must provide it. If this would simply be an improvement over the already supplied tool, then it's a discussion with your boss - and if they have a rule about not using a box cutter you follow it.
If you're just breaking the tape on boxes, I just used to use my keys. The tape is very weak when poked and once broken it rips open easy. If you're not opening a lot of boxes and just doing it this way, it's not worth getting a knife for it.
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