It seems the Best Week Ever blog editors are the ones watching The View so we don’t have to. This morning, the motliest crew around discussed profanity in the workplace. Here’s a clip of the ladies trying to out-”f—" each other on national TV:
I like how Joy Behar thinks it’s okay to drop the f-bomb in the office if unexpected things occur like "you bang your hand." It’s true, "f—" is a lot of people’s default outburst for that type of s—. Sometimes I say it when I haven’t uttered anything in a few hours, just to sound disgruntled and possibly busy. Which is way inapprope, I know. I will argue strongly, however, for deliberate office cursing when it’s in the interest of making a work-related point ("I f—ing hate Private Practice.") And some workplaces almost require profanity. Like, at our news meetings, it’s not like I can sit there and say "D hyphen hyphen hyphen in a box" and be taken seriously. And I need to be taken seriously at all times.
F—, now I’m interested in the level of raunch at your offices. Rank your office’s curse quotient on a scale of 1 ("Hello.") to 100 ("What’s for f—ing lunch?"), below. And do you have a f—ing problem with it or what?
Well…I work with a Richard Pryer impersonator troup so “Muthafucka…What’s included in my muthafuckin 401-Fuckin-K plan?” ain’t all that frowned upon.
Si’d say it’s a decent 92, but if you work in a more buttoned up setting…I undastand.
http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/pictures_and_bio/1262/F–ckDaEaglesHeather.girl?src=tst129
Speaking of F***!
Remember that girl on national TV…It’s become mainstream.
Our office is definitely at 100. My boss (a 46 yr old woman who is super competent and smart) has such a potty mouth. She actually says ‘c&*(*&sucker’ at a meeting and nobody bats an eyelash. It was shocking at first but now the f* word is used as an adjective and thrown around like nobody’s business.
Very little if at all, all the fun people have left. So I’d say about a 5, but it isn’t actually stated you can’t say it.
I work at an elementary school, so our curse quotient is quite low…I’ll give it a 5, and that’s mainly because I say “cr@p” all the time. However, our curse quotient soars if you factor in the students, then it’s a 48 (but if you count the words “dangit” and “fricken” then it’s a 77).
My boss literally drops an f-bomb every other word. The rest of us know that it’s best to curse for emphasis. So I’d say my boss is about a 99 and the rest of the office is about a 40 (normally it would be lower but we all hate our jobs right now).
We’re at about a 6 or 7, I would say. There are only 6 people in our office, though, 5 women and 1 man of various ages, so we’re pretty close.
Mine is at about a 2, and that’s mostly me. My coworkers are mostly female and from other countries, so if they are cursing, it isn’t in English.
(Speaking of swearing (and pop culture), here’s my WTF moment, as provided by a coworker on our way to lunch: “There are kids who cut themselves on purpose. They’re called emo.”)
Further example: I spent most of a lunch hour trying to convince a (different) coworker that “sucker” is not a swear word.
Best. Word. Ever. I’m a litigator, my colleagues and I couldn’t possibly express ourselves without it. I’ll put it at 60, however, since we do have some control.
My office is horrible. Swearing nonstop. I’ve even used “fatherf-cker” while talking to my boss. If everyone swears, it lightens the mood.
We sound like a group of longshoremen with tourettes.
Some days it’s near 95 – but I’m self-employed and it’s not nearly as fun to say it when no one’s around! In my old corporate accounting job my boss once called a meeting specifically to tell us that we were to no longer use a “certain” word in the workplace…..Wait for it…..ANAL! LMAO – we were a bunch of effing CPAs! Hence the self-employment now.
I work with the older kids. If you count me (under my breath, of course), it’s 30. Factor the kids, it’s 62. Factor in other teachers and management, then dammit, you really shouldn’t bring your kids where I work. We’re rated R.
mine is definitely a 1 or lower. If anyone said the F word where I work they’d most likely be hauled off by security & never set foot on property again. My friend & I will whisper about “those Fs” & even that way it has to be super secretive.