swearing at work
NaeNae55
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A few years ago I was at a seminar in NY and the speaker said he was just going to use the F word because you hear it everywhere you go anyway. I rarely hear it in public here. There are a few exceptions (like sports bars), but generally you do not hear swear words in public here.
I just read an article on swearing at work, and wondered how many of you find it is a problem, or just common? How is it where you work and live?
I just read an article on swearing at work, and wondered how many of you find it is a problem, or just common? How is it where you work and live?
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Some words like "hell" or "damn" seem to have lost some of their "cuss". A boss that says "you did a hell of a job on that report, Nae" is probably in the clear.
The other thing that would concern me is that allowing cussing to go unchecked could lead to other verbal issues: racial epithets, sexist language, ect. I think its fair to say that cussing is generally not considered "professional" speech so by allowing it, an organization is lowering their overall standards of decorum.
Has Eddie Murphy hit the lecture circuit?
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I did have a small adjustment curve, but since he didn't drop the F bomb very often, and since I think his main reason was to push us out of our comfort zones, I was ok with it.
In the past few years I have only heard the bomb dropped in a store once (and it was the most frequent word of that person's vocabulary), and not at all in a business setting. OUTSIDE of my regional area (and in large cities) it has been a different matter.
The article made me wonder if we are that far behind the times (or perhaps it could be said we are that far ahead of the times), or if the writer was a little off the mark.
I couldn't help it. Bad @#$%#@ day - someone has to pay.
We do have an ee who gets on the phone with his ex-wife and will curse - I have had to shut his door many times. It cost him money, everytime he was up for a review his boss wouldn't give him one because he didn't want to confront this issue. He finally talked to him about it and things calmed down. I love my job
I think it would depend on the structure of the company whether it be conservative or more lenient in language and behavior.
Ok, this post is a set up for ACU Frank to say we'd all be better off if Cheney was allowed to drop F bombs instead of real bombs.
I've been on this @#$@$ forum too long.
Ok, I just hurt myself from laughing too hard...
I would now insert an emoticon if I could find one.
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I hope he cleans the restroom while he's there.
As far as Cheney goes, all I can say is... What a Dick!
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I hope he cleans the restroom while he's there.
As far as Cheney goes, all I can say is... What a Dick!
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Go, Frank!! **==
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Maybe it's just that we're all so friendly and polite down here in TN, but I've never encountered a really remarkable amount of swearing at work in any job I've held.
I tend to think of the issue similarly to that of dress codes, in that it's really going to depend a lot on the company's culture, the type of image the company wishes to promote and, sometimes, how much interaction the employees have with customers and clients. I might feel that I was a victim of false advertising if I went to a biker bar or a tattoo shop and didn't hear an f-bomb or two!
Further, I think (and hope) that disagreeing with the article referenced isn't a "behind the times" matter, either. I'm right on the Gen X/Gen Y cusp and I don't know of a single of my peers or friends who would think it should be okay to spew forth a stream of F-bombs at work. They might still slip up now and then, but they wouldn't argue that it's "just the way things are now." I am laughing at the idea of an F-Bomb Friday to accompany casual dress days, though.
If anything, I think that that most of my peers are extremely careful about the use of foul language at work because many of us were learning what those words meant at around the same time that the Anita Hill hearings were raising tensions about and awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace.
I'm not a big swearer, personally, because I like to maintain the appearance that I always have things under control.
I really don't think so. I grew up in rural Tennessee with a father who uttered one swear word for every two words he spoke and my grandfather was almost as bad as he was. My mother tried very hard to keep us from hearing too much of that and strictly forbid my brother and sisters and me to say even one foul word. She could, however, if she was mad enough, say quite a right few swear words herself.
One of my least favorite childhood memories is getting my mouth washed out with soap for swearing. As I recall, it was a string of expletives. I think I was about 9 years old and was trying to put together a doll house that I'd received for Christmas. My mom told me several times to leave it until my father had time to assemble it, but being the impatient lass I was and it being three days after Christmas already, I decided to go ahead and give it a try. About thirty minutes into it I got so frustrated because I just couldn't figure out the instructions, then I got angry because when I finally did figure out part of it (I thought) it still wouldn't go together correctly. Then I let loose with just about every word I'd ever heard my father or grandfather say.
Faster than you can say, Sharon is in big trouble, my mom grabbed me by the ear and marched me out to the back porch and told me not to move. She came out a couple of minutes later with a pan of water, a washcloth, and a bar of soap. Well, the rest is just too gruesome to discuss but I will say that the worst part was knowing my older brother was running around the yard laughing his head off.
To this day, I hate putting together anything. It doesn't matter what it is, furniture, toys, you name it, if it requires assembly, I don't want any part of it. It's also taken me about 40 years to be able to stand the smell of Dove soap. But, the big question is, do I ever swear? The answer is, only on special occasions.
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To answer the first question - we are the buckle. To answer the second question - see above comments.
I have been called a 'thread killer', that hurts *sniff sniff*. Please, someone post after me....
Now that I'm an adult, that's odd to be because his character was not very ethical. :-/
But I also think that when someone says "like" more than, like, you know, two or three times in one, like, sentence.