Man of Honour
At our place we call them "users".
Swearing at work
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Man of Honour
I think this is a good take on it.
Man of Honour
Many swearies are used when the users are having an extra special day
Soldato
Some level of swearing is normal I think; depends on the background of who you work with I guess. I tend to use silly words in anger when things go wrong.
Soldato
To be honest, I'm seriously thinking about having a 'For ****'s sake' tattoo as it's the phrase you hear hundreds of times per shift.
Caporegime
The industry plays the biggest part. You’re never gonna work around the likes of builders, brickies, market traders, dustmen etc without hearing the choicest of language
It’s more common these days but I find it uncouth.
Man of Honour
Depends on the industry too I think.
Soldato
I loath continuos swearing. Just no need for it. To swear occasionally for me is ok, ish. But some people i know cant string a sentence together without putting in several F bombs!
Soldato
I support installers of our equipment and they sometimes but rarely, swear for reasons. In my role, I see myself as a Jeeves character. Polite and slightly detached, but friendly and helpful. You have to maintain a certain level of professionalism and curtesy. Swearing just shows a lack of decorum, intelligence and class.
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True, I have a lot of Murican friends and they just don't get it.It’s the UK, and the c word is a term of endearment
But at work, all I hear is ******* Citroen, ******* Renault, ******* Peugeot, **** those pieces of ****.
All day every day without fail.
Well deserved as well, ******* heaps of ****
Soldato
Can’t trust a person who doesn’t swear at all though.
Soldato
My office consists of 3 men and one woman. We'd swear between eachother jovially but the female is a church going goodie two shoes. When she came back from a leadership meeting she said that the top table were a bunch of *****, we collectively ****** ourselves laughing. She was also correct
No. Well - actually yes but in terms of support. "Don't let the ****ers get you down" etc to people I care about 1:1 but usually I don't and I don't expect my team to either.
I've had it more in sales teams and once when a polish project manager said you have to talk to the polish team like brickies (his dad was a brickie).. No you don't.. even then.
Chances are with ever more sensitive generations in the work force you're likely to get flagged up.
There are cases/times when it works.. but that's more expected as a general consolidation like calling the leadership team a load of ***** because of their own behaviour.
I've had it more in sales teams and once when a polish project manager said you have to talk to the polish team like brickies (his dad was a brickie).. No you don't.. even then.
Chances are with ever more sensitive generations in the work force you're likely to get flagged up.
There are cases/times when it works.. but that's more expected as a general consolidation like calling the leadership team a load of ***** because of their own behaviour.
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I work in the water industry, surrounded by engineers and road/rail workers.
If you're not constantly swearing at everything and everyone, it means you're the **** who's not doing their job right... so everyone then swears at you!
Worked at a small company for a few years where we’d deploy upgrades/features etc into live environments out of hours.
One particular client wouldn’t let us start until 11pm, with doing those releases the level of profanities being used by all involved quickly ramped up to extremes. One chap in particular who is a real stand up guy during office hours, but at this time of night with tiredness working against him, verbal hell broke loose! C-Bombs left right and centre.
Obviously it was gruelling at the time but I look back on it with fond memories, it was absolutely hilarious!
One particular client wouldn’t let us start until 11pm, with doing those releases the level of profanities being used by all involved quickly ramped up to extremes. One chap in particular who is a real stand up guy during office hours, but at this time of night with tiredness working against him, verbal hell broke loose! C-Bombs left right and centre.
Obviously it was gruelling at the time but I look back on it with fond memories, it was absolutely hilarious!
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Thinking back, I've never worked anywhere in the UK without a decent amount of swearing, but it's all up North which probably doesn't help.
I've worked abroad and found no swearing, but there may have been an element of unusual formality in front of the foreigner.
I try to minimise it and think a low level is fine - if nothing else it loses potency with overuse, so when you *really* need to call someone a **** you're missing out on the impact
I've worked abroad and found no swearing, but there may have been an element of unusual formality in front of the foreigner.
I try to minimise it and think a low level is fine - if nothing else it loses potency with overuse, so when you *really* need to call someone a **** you're missing out on the impact