In the immortal words of Curly in response to the question “do you solemnly swear”……. “No, but I know all the woids”.
About 25 years ago I was working for a large company as a network engineer and was training a new guy that we had hired for one of the plants out east. He was at our main facility and I sent him up on a man-lift to make some changes to a switch out in the factory. As he got up there, he let loose with an extended string of F bombs. When he came back down I said something to the effect of “whoa…. That was different” and his response was “sorry about that man, it was the sailor in me coming back out”. He had spent about 10 years in the Navy before starting work for us. Aside from that, I don’t recall him ever letting loose like that again in the few years I worked with him (if not daily contact, at least a few times every single week) before I left the company. From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:21 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT business decorum Ive noticed this trend, not just from the young. I dont sit in a whole lot of board meetings given my nobody status, but i have found myself dragged into them periodically. Im always somewhat floored when a profession drops an fbomb in particular. Im a lowlife, so in my regular life i swear alot, but in my professional life i always gauge the company im in and make decisions on the communication type, usually edging toward playing it safe and not using curse words. but anymore it just seems no matter who you meet, theyre cussing. Ive seen it a whole lot from salesmen. Im not sure if its a sales tool to break ice or if society is just generally foul mouthed. maybe its actually always been this way and it is the age that makes you notice it more On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:10 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: On a tech type you tube video, I normally feel safe enough having them on when my grandkids are around. Normally... From: Nate Burke Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 9:04 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 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? ________________________________ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ________________________________ Total Control Panel Login<https://asp.reflexion.net/login?domain=litewire.net> To: ja...@litewire.net<https://asp.reflexion.net/address-properties?aID=242260993&domain=litewire.net> From: af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> You received this message because the domain afmug.com is on your allow list.
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