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You know, you are just digging yourself a deeper hole here...

Ok, so you didn't mean to offend the half dozen or so PC techs that read the forum. What you really meant was the 1000 or so PC USERS that read the forum!

NcongruNt wrote: Please don't put words into my mouth by implying that when I said blue collar, I meant dumb and uneducated. I most certainly did not.

I am SO sorry to imply that you said I was dumb and uneducated. What you actually said was INCOMPETENT and STUPID.

NcongruNt wrote: You always have to deal with incompetence and stupidity in the tech industry, it just gets a little better as you move up in skill sets.

Thanks. I feel better now.

NcongruNt wrote: Well, it gets better as you go up. Tech support is pretty much the low rung of the ladder in what is becoming a blue-collar industry. Well, there's field service techs, which are about even on that ladder, IMO - though that depends on who you work for and what you do. I do sysadmin work now. You always have to deal with incompetence and stupidity in the tech industry, it just gets a little better as you move up in skill sets. There's also the BOFH indulgences you get to offset the annoyances with sysamdin work.

WOW!
Ya know, if I wasn't just a dumb, uneducated blue-collar worker field service tech, I might be smart enough to be offended by that.

Right2Carry wrote:I don't think all companies issue pictured ID's, although it is becoming more the norm. Actually I think that from now on I will ask what the policy of the company is before I decide to give them my business, that way I know up front what to expect. My guess is that 95% of companies prohibit carrying into a home owners house.

I don't know what kind of shady companies you deal with that send their employees out to represent them without giving them proper ID. OH WAIT! You only deal with companies that also strip their employees of their constitutional rights!

Because evidently, the "Right2Carry" only applies to YOU.

Anyone who wants to come into my house to perform any service is gonna have a company ID, and I am gonna ask to see it.

If you don't have a company issued picture ID, or if you don't look like the picture on your ID badge, then you aren't invited in.

I don't teach on Sundays, thank you. That's when I duck into a nearby phone booth and put on my 3rd costume - church organist.

Yes, I am just your typical gun toting, PC/network technician, church organ playing, red blooded American.

BrassMonkey wrote:I guess I am a bad bad man huh...

Well... YEAH, but that has nothing to do with this particular discussion!

I do PC, laptop, network, and printer service. Occasionally, I visit homes and home businesses.

I would NEVER, NOT ONCE, NOT EVER, enter someone's home for a service call without carrying my personal protection device (AKA, Glock). You just never know what kind of situation you are getting into when you go into someone's home.

Now that we have established that, I believe the original question was "how to carry?".

It is really, really difficult to stay concealed and comfortable while crawling around on the floor, under desks, etc. I seldom carry "on body" in that situation. I just drop it into my laptop bag or tool bag. The velcro holster that came with my Coronado Leather purse works just as well in the tool bag as in the purse. And the bag is never out of my reach when I am working.

Brass Monkey, if that makes you uncomfortable, then you have to figure out how you are going to handle that. Personally, if you answer the door armed when I come to your house for a service call, I am probably going to make a hasty excuse to be somewhere else.