It's not just the business world or a physical area, I noticed that a small but vocal percentage of the population, often young, has started to use the F-word excessively in a few contexts, trying to be "edgy" or showing that they don't care about others' opinions. When I've commented on it the responses have been "I say what I want" or "I'm not trying to offend you so [buzz] off".
It's a small group of people but in that group the evaporation of respect / mature conversation is worrying. On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 9:54 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Had a vendor make a visit to my company a while back and during the visit > he was dropping the F bomb left and right. I would have thought he would > have toned it down as my wife was in the meeting. After he left I told a > manufacturer’s rep about it and he contacted the guys boss and the next > thing I know the guy is apologizing. Was not trying to cause him problems > as work, just asking for a sanity check. > > I have been in probably thousands of board and business meetings over the > years, and don’t recall anyone ever being gratuitous in the use of the F > word. I do recall one of the big bosses at Harris Broadcast in Quincy Il > complaining about their director of sales being too salty for high end > businesses meetings. > > Then yesterday I was taken to task by a video blogger which had done a > pretty good job in his Tesla review except for the F bomb every other > sentence. I told him it was about as welcome as a fart in an elevator. He > thinks I am too old to have a valid opinion. I guess he is one of those > thin skinned millennials... > > TV shows it all the time, but I don’t think it is common in the business > world. Perhaps Utah is in a bubble? > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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