Bad language at work

If you were being a **** and he called you a ****, then what's the issue. I would be more concerned with the fact that your performance was obviously not up to scratch or if it was that your immediate superiors and colleagues either have an issue with your work or with you personally for this to be bought to the attention of your senior manager.

It sounds as if you have larger issue at work than the fact that your boss called you a naughty word.
 
LOL swearing at staff while giving them negative feedback is totally unprofessional imo. Any HR dept worth their salt would be receptive to a complaint if you wanted to go down that route imo.

People swear far too much these days, particularly those from The North and from London. I was always taught that swearing was indicative of a poor vocabulary and a person of low esteem.
 
Castiel said:
If you were being a **** and he called you a ****, then what's the issue. I would be more concerned with the fact that your performance was obviously not up to scratch or if it was that your immediate superiors and colleagues either have an issue with your work or with you personally for this to be bought to the attention of your senior manager.

It sounds as if you have larger issue at work than the fact that your boss called you a naughty word.
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I would have said you would have been one of the last people to think that sort of behaviour is acceptable, obviously not.

If his performance was really that bad, all it shows is the inadequecy of his managers in not managing him properly to begin with, to let it get that far that he lost control and had to start verbally abusing him just shows how poor the management is.
 
The F word is probably the most expressive word in the English language.

"I'm really angry"

"I'm ******* angry"

Which is angrier?

Sometimes I'm too liberal with my swearing, it is rather crude to overuse it.
 
Nitefly said:
The F word is probably the most expressive word in the English language.

"I'm really angry"

"I'm ******* angry"

Which is angrier?

Sometimes I'm too liberal with my swearing, it is rather crude to overuse it.
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But which is more professional and shows at least a little respect to someone who is supposed to be your colleague :p?
 
Nitefly said:
The F word is probably the most expressive word in the English language.

"I'm really angry"

"I'm ******* angry"

Which is angrier?

Sometimes I'm too liberal with my swearing, it is rather crude to overuse it.
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If 'really' was the best alternative you could come up with, perhaps you need to invest some time in expanding your vocabulary?

An inability to effectively express yourself without resorting to expletives is a ******* poor do!
 
Moothead2 said:
But which is more professional and shows at least a little respect to someone who is supposed to be your colleague :p?
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Obviously the former :)

4MIT said:
If 'really' was the best alternative you could come up with, perhaps you need to invest some time in expanding your vocabulary?
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Err...

An inability to effectively express yourself without resorting to expletives is a ******* poor do!
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Indeed, but I still think it's the most flexible and expressive word. It makes everything taken to its extreme.
 
Nitefly said:
The F word is probably the most expressive word in the English language.

"I'm really angry"

"I'm ******* angry"

Which is angrier?

Sometimes I'm too liberal with my swearing, it is rather crude to overuse it.
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I would say "I am unspeakably angry". :p
 
Nitefly said:
Sometimes I'm too liberal with my swearing, it is rather crude to overuse it.
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Just remember that it's best not to swear in open court, the court stenographer tends not to like it. ;)

I'd be rather disappointed if any boss I worked for swore at me, partly because that would normally mean I'd failed to do something adequately which is a problem but also because in most work environments it's simply not professional. In some jobs swearing is commonplace and that's fine up to a point but it's still generally not good practice to swear at someone while reprimanding them.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Just remember that it's best not to swear in open court, the court stenographer tends not to like it. ;)
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I went to court once to watch a CPS prosecutor in action (I was shadowing her). The offence was one of racially aggravated assault and she proceeded to read out in her most ridiculously pompous and over the top posh accent:

"She called the lady a ****** ******* ******* ***** and ****** ***** ****** ***** **** when ******, ******, pancakes and ***** ***** mac10"

After the hearing she came up to me and said "ooo I do love it when I get to give a great big sweary sentence in a silly accent" :D
 
Bear said:
I would have said you would have been one of the last people to think that sort of behaviour is acceptable, obviously not.

If his performance was really that bad, all it shows is the inadequecy of his managers in not managing him properly to begin with, to let it get that far that he lost control and had to start verbally abusing him just shows how poor the management is.
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I did not say it was acceptable. I do not swear at my staff for example, all that accomplishes is to put their back up and undermines your authority. I just think that he has more important issues to worry about in the workplace than the fact that he Boss thought it necessary to use profanity.
 
In a professional capacity usually only as exclamation, elaboration or when very angry.

In general conversation, the language used by my team can only be described as an incessant, self-perpetuating tirade of the most disgraceful and distasteful profanity.

For variation, medieval insults are in at the moment.

I called someone a "tottering, flea-ridden peasant slug, whose face isn't worth sunburning" today.
 
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Castiel said:
I did not say it was acceptable. I do not swear at my staff for example, all that accomplishes is to put their back up and undermines your authority. I just think that he has more important issues to worry about in the workplace than the fact that he Boss thought it necessary to use profanity.
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But this has nothing to do with anything else, it's purely about swearing in the workplace.
 
I should probably expand, this woman is quite often swearing in the office (not necessarily at anyone but just to exaggerate something etc)... This alone bugs me (it's a small London office, not a betting shop) but with it being directed at me I'm not too happy.

Additionally, we are having several new staff interviewed and she happily slags them off to her close female colleague quite openly in the office.
 
4MIT said:
Totally unacceptable, it isn't just about swearing, it is about what is suitable language for a professional setting.

I have walked out of a meeting when a manager swore, I stop him once and said "if you do not refrain from using offensive and unprofessional language, this meeting is suspended". One minute later he returned to unprofessional language, I stood up and left.

People should learn what is and isnt appropriate language, even senior managers.
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Absolutely this.
 
4MIT said:
Totally unacceptable, it isn't just about swearing, it is about what is suitable language for a professional setting.

I have walked out of a meeting when a manager swore, I stop him once and said "if you do not refrain from using offensive and unprofessional language, this meeting is suspended". One minute later he returned to unprofessional language, I stood up and left.

People should learn what is and isnt appropriate language, even senior managers.
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Agreed.
 
I don't mind swearing in the office, but you have to know when it's ok to do it. If there is some girly ****ing idiot that is likely to be offended then I wouldn't.
 
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