I don’t think it is now or has ever been appropriate for a sales rep to use that kind of language. Other language like racial and ethnic jokes may have changed over time, but it’s just plain stupid for a sales person to use offensive language.
Trying to set language standards for a video blogger however is probably expecting too much. I have not noticed that millennials have thinner skins than the general population. I can think of a 73 year old politician who seems very thin skinned. And there are billionaire entrepreneurs who are surprised that calling someone a “pedo guy” is considered defamatory. Yes, there are millennials with thin skin, and her name is Karen. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 9:54 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] OT business decorum 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?
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