Things appear to be changing over time, however, I don’t think it is appropriate in a business setting. I recently completed a 5 year consulting project for Wells Fargo and 3 years of work before that for Best Buy’s corporate IT group. It is definitely not common place and not looked at as acceptable, even in lower level meetings. Once you leave the office and are having drinks, knock yourself out with the salty language. From everything I have heard the things you don’t do at work are:
1. Swear 2. Lose your temper 3. Talk politics Those are above the obvious ones related to sexual harassment, stealing, etc. In my role at Wells Fargo, myself and two others interviewed and hired for 3 dozen consulting roles. Swearing in the interview, over use of the word “Like” were among the items that severely negatively impacted a person’s ability to get the role. If you can’t express an idea without swearing or misusing the word Like, you weren’t a serious candidate. Just my two cents….. 😊 Regards, David Coudron From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:04 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT business decorum I don't talk that way, so It puts me off when I'm around people that do. I'll admit that I will judge a person based on how they're speaking. Having not used that language, I will say that it seems that is becoming the 'normal' Even when visiting customers now, those words just are in their natural speech now. However, I watch TV shows/movies where the language is just a blue, and it doesn't seem to bother me. Youtube videos do bother me though. Maybe something about having a scripted reason to say it, vs just saying to to fill time? On 4/24/2020 9:53 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto: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?
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