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Brett can we start using industrial language? :)
for promoting relationships at work
It surely differs from culture to culture. Have you been able to watch the movie "The kingdom", when the arab guy promises the other he will be washing his mouth with a soap if he kept on swearing.
Warning: It doesn't promote everywhere :)
[edited by: lawman at 4:07 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2007]
Then one day I was walking a new important buyer around when he came in unexpectedly and I had to introduce him as "our Chairman Chris surname not mentioned here". Chris looked the buyer in the eye and said "How the <snip> are you? Is this <snip> looking after you OK?" The buyer laughed thinking that he was making some sort of crude joke and Chris walked away slightly bemused. After he'd gone Chris took me to one side and said I'd watch that <snip> if I were you, did you see the <snip> openly laughing at me that's no <snip> business-like way to behave."
Still as the Bee Gees sang "It's only words..."
[edited by: lawman at 4:08 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2007]
He was a really nice guy and a church member who would do no one any harm. He worked as an electrical supervisor and on one infamous occasion he was asked by the minister of the church if he would do some electrical work in the church on the side.
He volunteered to do the job for nothing and went to see what was involved with another guy (who later told me this story). They met the minister who pointed out some of the lighting fittings that had to be replaced.
Kenny said, "No <snip> problem minister! We'll strip these <snip> fittings out and remove the old <snip> wiring. We can then rewire the <snip> and replace them with the new <snip> fittings."
The minister just smiled and shook his head. :)
[edited by: lawman at 4:11 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2007]
I am at a different company now with a nice corner office and I don't really have to deal with it. However, my office is near the ping-pong table and sometimes the expletives fly when a point is made. Great for phone calls to people.
In the places where I work, swearing creates animosity between myself and the people who use it. Also, I generally tend to think of people who have to use profanity as having a limited vocabulary and not able to come up with anything else. I'm not a prude though, every now and again a situation deserves a good F bomb.
