Deleting expletives at work

--Take repeat offenders aside, privately, and remind them of no-profanity expectations in the office.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

/takes a deep breath

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Had a friend who substituted "oh fudge" for the "F" word :)

This is absolutely ridiculous! This is just a big advertisement for Jim O'Connor's class using statistics that don't even justify it existing!

40% of business OWNERS. What about the employees!?
The other study suggested swearing was a GOOD thing???? Why curb it!?

I had a couple of cute little nieces who came up with a unique euphemism: "Aw, shut the ffffffront door!"

They're still too cute for words. Just no so little now.

I'm no prude, but I don't believe foul language has a place in the business world. If you mutter it under your breath, that's one thing. Spewing swear words loud enough for the whole office to hear is not appropriate, IMO.

Agree with Gotta Disagree--this reads like an advertisement for the workshops. Lame.

If I ever hear a co-worker yell brother trucker I will probably be fired shortly thereafter for punching them in the face...

It probably shows how much of a geek I am but I started using the replacement words from "Battle Star Galactica" and "Firefly"
Frack = F word
Gorram = G dam
respectively. I never could understand the chinese curses they use in Firefly.

I blame the former VP, ever since he told Pat Leahy to go F himself the cat's been out of the bag.

No question about it, profanity has its time and place. The office is not one of them. A bar room is.

Have you heard the 4 and 5 years old kids at the store and playground? Start with them and their parents.

Geez, how about taking the toxicity out of the workplace in the 1st place, pay people the benefits and pensions you've stolen from them so they aren't so browned off in the 1st place?

Just asking....

MWeb wrote:

I'm no prude, but I don't believe foul language has a place in the business world. If you mutter it under your breath, that's one thing. Spewing swear words loud enough for the whole office to hear is not appropriate, IMO.
Agree with Gotta Disagree--this reads like an advertisement for the workshops. Lame.

Agreed.

The thing that gets me is the majority of people who do swear have enough education so they can use words longer than 4 letters.

I guess they don't know how to access that part of their brain yet.

I'm a woman who swears a lot, mostly in the car when I'm faced with idiots behind the wheel of three ton killing machines who are yapping on the phone or applying lipstick. I try to curb myself around kids,(usually subsituting "fudge jumbles") but sometimes I wonder whats the point. Last week in the store i heard a ten year old call his mother an incredibly foul word (starts with C) and to shut him up she bought him a candy bar.

Raeven wrote:

It probably shows how much of a geek I am but I started using the replacement words from "Battle Star Galactica" and "Firefly"
Frack = F word
Gorram = G dam
respectively. I never could understand the chinese curses they use in Firefly.

The Firefly curses were the most eloquent I've ever heard. I loved it when my former coworker cursed in his accented English. There's just something about a person cursing with a foreign accent that makes it hang in the air longer.

Who gives a rodents hairy posterior?(sorry, the devil made me do it)

People should also try being nicer to each other and employers should actually care about their employees and not how much more they can add to the bottome line because Wall St tells them to.

Good luck with trying to get people to swear less. We are all fed up with being effed over and over and over again by the government, wall st, and corporate America

Dont forget me I can swear like a truck driver.No insult to truck drivers just white trash women

I worked for a company in which the "F-Word" could be used as a noun, adjective and verb all in the same sentence and was done so on a regular basis. And this was in the office!

I didn't think much about it, until my wife brought up the fact that when I switched jobs, my language had cleaned up 1000%.

I guess the moral of the story is that profanity in the workplace can spill into private life.

Agreed wrote:

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Agreed.
The thing that gets me is the majority of people who do swear have enough education so they can use words longer than 4 letters.
I guess they don't know how to access that part of their brain yet.

nononono.... you guys have this all wrong. I was pointing out that the statistics in this article are incomplete and misleading. The statistics used don't even "back up" the idea that people don't like the swearing the workplace.

This article is ridiculous. It takes random stats and poorly tries to link them to this dude's class. I've seen late-night TV ads do a better job of advertising

Cursing is a symptom, not the disease. This article and most of these comments miss the point.