Open carrying to a job interview...

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I strongly urge you NOT to open carry to this interview. If in fact you need the job. Most people, gun supporters or not, would frown on a person bringing a weapon to an interview. As an ex employer of over 70 people, I most certainly would. If I saw you in the waiting room I would probably call the police..
 
Not unless open carry is encouraged as part of the interview attire.

Ex. Business casual for men; for ladies, holster must match purse and shoes.
 
...if you hired a plumber or a cleaning crew to your house, and he was carrying, what would you think? "Oh it's ok he's just enforcing his right to carry." Personally I would think "D**n! this guys gonna rob me! ***!" Even if it is a right you gotta have some boundries and some common sense.
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Can anyone say PROJECTION?

Anyone...

Buehler? Buehler?

Seriously. If a cleaning crew came to my home and they were open carrying I would have no problem with that at all - assuming it was a legitimate business.

Sounds to me like the guy I quoted is just against open carry and because he's against it it shouldn't be OK for anyone.

Either RKBA is for real or it isn't. It's a right or it isn't. Sad that some here can't seem to make up their minds.
 
OC to an interview is simply stupid.

You are going on a job interview - asking somebody else to give you money in exchange for your services, with the employment screening likely conducted in their facility. Anyone that doesn't have the judgement to determine the 'rules of the house' before entering is NOT likely to be a welcome guest.

Anyone that shows up openly carryin' at my interviews will not make it past the lobby. That is NOT because I am afraid of them, but because I will have adjudicated their behavior to be grossly inappropriate for the circumstances and therefore them being not worthy of further screening.

You don't wear political commentary on your clothing to an interview, you don't come disheveled and unclean, and you don't come openly carryin'. Like it or not, it is simply NOT the norm and therefore is not done until sanctioned by the employer.
 
Tomorrow's ridiculously obvious question of the day:

I'm a 35 year old teacher. There's a little six year old girl that's been really flirty. Should I make an advance or should I get her parents to sign a permission slip first?
 
Ahhhh, I wondered how long this would take.

Either RKBA is for real or it isn't. It's a right or it isn't. Sad that some here can't seem to make up their minds.
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Maybe this individual is independently wealthy.

If not, I'd be interested in the number of sucessful job interviews they've had with their pistol proudly and prominently displayed.


At any rate, that's one dissenting vote in about 25.


Once again, reality rears its ugly head.
 
And there we have society's view in general on Open Carry. If most of us believe that Open Carry to a job interview is a bad idea, you can then at least understand why most of society takes a dim view of Open Carry.

To the original poster... well, shoot, I say, go ahead and open carry to the interview. Since you had to ask the question, I think we can safely assume that you're not interviewing for a position where packing heat would be smiled upon. Given that, you appear to have incredibly poor decision making skills and that will likely be obvious in the interview - meaning there's no way you're going to get a job. So why not liven up the day and Open Carry? I'd love to read your report afterwards when the cops bounced you outta there.

Remember, if you have to ask the question, you already know the answer.
 
Let´s make this more general.

Bringing anything to a job interview that does not
make a point for your seriousness or competence - is stupid.

Be it a BBQ-Grill, Baseballbat, Football-Helmet, Case of beer
or in this case a firearm.

In case this is an interview for Mall-Security-Guard job,
feel free to bring all of the above :)
 
If most of us believe that Open Carry to a job interview is a bad idea, you can then at least understand why most of society takes a dim view of Open Carry.
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Oh, don't be silly. Most of us support freedom of religion, but would also advise against carrying a Bible to a job interview.

Have we forgotten what job interviews are? They're screening devices for keeping people out.

The job market is competitive enough. Don't screen yourself out by doing something flambuoyant just to make a point.
 
So I am thinking I should open carry to the interview.
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Think again.

If you show up at an interview with other than the expected and appropriate attire you won't be getting any job. That is a simple fact that anyone interviewing should know.

If carrying a gun isn't part of the job description then you shouldn't expect to get the job any more than you would showing up wearing a thong and feather boa at a fortune 500 company or a business suite and tie at a strip joint.
 
You're serious, aren't you?

Lemme get this straight. You're flying to a strange town, to interview with someone who you are trying to impress, and convince them that you are the kind of person they can trust without constant direct supervision, who will save the company money rather than COST the company money, and hopefully be an improvement over the LAST guy who did the job, and you want to wear a GUN to the interview?

As pro 2a as I am, if a guy came in to interview with a gun, for a job other than cop, mercenary, or cowpoke, I would call security. If I were hiring a paid assassin he should be smart enough to conceal. It's judgment bordering on inflammatory.
 
everallm said:
You have a computer, do a search
If your staying in a hotel, ask the front desk
Ask the company you are interviewing with

Second, a firearm is a single tool, not some magic wand that protects you from evil. If you can't use your eyes and common sense to avoid dodgy situations and areas then you should really re-consider your reasons for CCW.
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I havent started carrying my 9mm yet, but do people get that used to some kind of magic security blanket wearing them?

I've lasted 49 yrs walking the streets and parks of Manhattan, the Bronx, & Seattle. It's much more about attitude, demeanor, knowing how to handle yourself, keeping your eyes open. Never had a gun. Sure, it's great to have that extra protection, but the odds, safety-wise....?

As everallm said, check out your routes ahead of time, do some research so you can feel more comfortable and stay in safer areas.
 
mljdeckard said:
As pro 2a as I am, if a guy came in to interview with a gun, for a job other than cop, mercenary, or cowpoke, I would call security.
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Assuming open carry is perfectly legal where you are and your place of business isn't posted then I am forced to ask -why? As a pro-2A guy why would that put you off? Why would you call security? What are you so afraid of?

If carry, concealed or otherwise is prohibited by the company, it is simple enough to explain the policy to the prospective employee and ask, "Will that be a problem?". It's the prospects answer that counts.

I am 100% aware of the practical arguments against oc'ng to a job interview but those arguments only exist because we, meaning almost 100% of those here, including myself at times, treat our rights like privelidges. We hide the fact that we are gun owners. We're ashamed to let anyone we're not 100% sure of know we like firearms for fun and self defense. We're in the closet so to speak.

My workplace has a no weapons policy. BUT everyone there in my office, about 50 people, know I'm an RKBA guy. That I own lots of guns and shoot them regularly. I wear a Smith and Wesson logo hat to work on casual Fridays. Hell, once when a VP from LA came in and needed a knife to open a box he asked my, "You have your knife on you today?". Of course I did and before you ask, no I am not a maintenance guy that would need one; I am a financial analyst that sits behind a PC generating statistics for Directors and VP's all over the company. Granted, carrying that knife is not quite the same as OC (illegal in Oklahoma anyway) but it's a start.

So we either come out or we live with being considered paranoid whack jobs. Certainly its not easy but exercising rights never has been when those in power wish to restrict them.

Sometimes I wonder if the US would ever have been born if the founders had been like us? I fear that we as pro-2a folk are our own worst enemies.
 
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I have to say,even if the time has passed for the interview, that this is one of the silliest things i've ever read as a post topic. I would never, ever, in a million years, open carry a weapon into an interview. A large company would have you arrested as soon as you got into the parking lot.
 
You have the right to OC, and they have the right to not hire you. The specific arguments against it have been well covered by others already.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Prudence.
 
You may the right to open carry, but common sense would say this is not the time or place to do so. And like it or not, if you showed up to a company OC'ing you are going to get shown the door at the very least, and arrested at the worst.

We should all do our part to support the RKBA, but as in all things. Use some common sense...
 
I'm still not sure what the problem is. I thought that as fellow gunowners you would support my decision to prepare my self for the worst. For all those who say that I should lock it up or not carry, then why carry at all if not to protect myself?

As rbernie and others pointed out that I should check the rules of the house, does this apply to every place I go? Does it apply to concealed carry? Everytime I enter a McDonalds should I call ahead to make sure that they allow carry of a firearm either openly or concealed?

My question still stands, why should I not carry? Isn't open carry a normal everyday thing? It is legal and my right, so why should I disarm for their sensibilities? I am an American and I am exercising my Constituitional rights. I would think that many of you would be glad to see your fellow employees and countrymen exercising thier rights at work and in life.

As Werewolf pointed out either RKBA is real or it isn't. Nobody has given a good reason why they would not hire someone who carried a defensive pistol to the interview. I assume that many here CCW so how is it any different when I explain that this is my only legal option right now in regards to carrying a pistol? I need to carry a pistol to protect myself, but I cannot conceal it right now. I am sure they would understand? Are you guys saying that you would not understand that?
 
Where I live, it is legal to wear only clothes that cover your tush crack and your male organ. It is also legal to carry a rifle.

Thus, I suggest wearing a flesh colored thong (a guy used to do this and then bicycle up and down the fancy neighborhood :neener:) and carry an AR-15 to the interview. Exercise your rights.

Also, get some tatoos of skulls, blood and chainsawed torsos! :evil:
 
Are you really serious in asking this, or are you trying to provoke discussion? I can't seriously believe that if you really desired landing this job, you would not see how things operate in the real world. This is not academia. You do not have tenure protecting your job.

I'm reminded of those who would wear a mohawk to a job interview for the purpose of not getting a job and still meeting the requirements of the Unemployment Office of putting in a certain nunber of applications to remain eligible for benefits. Your method has the added advantage of an attempted nose tweak to the rest of us pro-RKBA believers.
Unbelievable.

DD
 
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