Cursing at Work

[TahoeHorn 107]

In a week, how often would you guess that you hear a colleague utter a curse word?

A. In a formal work setting in a group  (e.g. project leader addressing team)

B.  In a work setting with one person (e.g. your office mate snarling about spilled coffee)

C. Not in a formal work setting (e.g. happy hour after work)

Forty years ago there were environments where cursing was just plain not done and others where it occurred a mile a minute.  I knew which was which.  Today I have no clue.

Edited September 1, 2019 by TahoeHorn

[miguelito 11266]

All the fucking time.

We sell and manufacture curses.

[immortal13 4059]

Fuck you

[TexArcher 37985]

Fun fact: your clean-cut, smooth-talking, family-friendly financial advisor loosens his tie and cusses like a fucking sailor when there are no clients in the office.  And if your financial advisor is a woman, it's even worse.

[phdhorn 6224]

"General [Patton] do you read your Bible?"
"Every God damn day."

[FartingMonk 3608]

Being in the military and then now in oil and gas.  There is a fair amount of cussing.  I mean I just told everyone how I love Five Guys in my mouth. 

[Bigbend1812 12927]

[futureman 22494]

cursing?  do you mean cussing?

[HornOnTheBayou 8937]

You tell that son of a bitch no Yankee is ever comin' to Houston. Not as long as you bastards are running things.

[Girdwood 118]

Upstream O&G office setting. Prob hear 5+ f bombs per day. Pretty common. 

[ernest_t_bass 1196]

I'm in education.  So as much as humanly fucking possible. 

Edited September 1, 2019 by ernest_t_bass

[GreenspointTexas 9662]

I cuss and people (surgeons, techs, nurses) cuss all the fucking time in the OR. However, i never cuss in front of my patients

[Armybrat 40851]

7 minutes ago, ernest_t_bass said:

I'm in education.  So as much as humanly fucking possible. 

I was too 40+ years ago, but it was mainly the junior high students.

[ernest_t_bass 1196]

I have a co worker who is past the age of retirement.  He still does a fine job, and is still very valuable to the district.  But he can retire yesterday if he wanted.  When he swears, he often does so loudly, regardless of how many kids are around.  lol

[Kavinsky 417]

I work in software/elec engineering. I hear frequent nasally "goddammits" and "ah fucks" mixed with some shit in hindi that I can only interpret as vulgar

 

Meanwhile I'm in my cubicle...

 

Edited September 1, 2019 by Kavinsky

[futureman 22494]

15 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

I cuss and people (surgeons, techs, nurses) cuss all the fucking time in the OR. However, i never cuss in front of my patients

just because you clean their bedpans doesn’t make them your “patients”.

[The Dude 1246]

[Royalfan5 2354]

I try to limit myself to no more than three consecutive generally considered profane words in a row 

[fattyflattie 4639]

This is something I am actively working on. Because, yes.  Offshore construction has lots of field to office types, and lots of cussing.  It’s the vulgarities I find more cringy than cussing tho. 

[Call 393]

 

Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat! Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot! Hooray! Lizard shit! 

Edited September 1, 2019 by Call

[Armybrat 40851]

12 minutes ago, futureman said:

just because you clean their bedpans doesn’t make them your “patients”.

Careful, or your next bedpan will be straight out of the freezer.

[Fudge Nuggets 19208]

53 minutes ago, Girdwood said:

Upstream O&G office setting. Prob hear 5+ f bombs per day. Pretty common. 

You’re doing it wrong if that doesn’t happen before the first cup of coffee is finished.

[Aqua Buddha 14598]

I work is retail/finance, wife works in construction/real estate.

We both curse all the motherfucking time, cocksucker.....

[futureman 22494]

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

You’re doing it wrong if that doesn’t happen before the first cup of coffee is finished.

no shit.  I bet a fucking pastor hears five f-bombs a day 

[Guest Lobo]

At the end of the day, a net-net fuck you to you and your team.  But we took it off-line, so it's okay.  

[MrPhlegm 3413]

Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Shit! Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse!Balls, balls...fuckity, shit, shit, fuck and willy. Willy, shit and fuck and... tits.

[mulletpelini 5214]

I work at home so cussing is allowed and welcomed.  

CSB  Best friend growing up had 6 brothers, who were like my brothers.  Playing a "family" basketball game in the driveway, everyone is there...Mom, Dad etc.  Oldest sibling was the one and only spoiled piece of shit backstabbing girl, and her husband was there, the outcast.  Now "family" games generally meant fouls were not called, hacking was mandatory, and blood was going to be drawn.  Outcast was calling fouls constantly so he was subsequently getting hacked harder and more often until he snapped and threw the ball across the street and yelled "FUCK THIS SHIT".  Silence.  Mom and Dad are aghast.  3rd oldest brother (toughest mfer of all) sticks his finger right in outcasts face and says "Don't you EVER FUCKING cuss in front of my FUCKING mother and father ever FUCKING again you FUCKING GOT THAT?"

 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

12 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

I cuss and people (surgeons, techs, nurses) cuss all the fucking time in the OR. However, i never cuss in front of my patients

I cuss all the time when I'm on the International Space Station

[DigglerontheHoof 21204]

Only cunts like OP don’t cuss at work.  

[Fat Bastard 600]

All the fucking time. Especially in the Cath lab. I just increase the Versed whenever I do

[pearlandhorn 3274]

I work in the boat business. Every sentence typically has either “fuck”, “shit”, “motherfucker”, or “fucking pussy” in it.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

I work with my dad and a full time mechanic. Plenty of fucking cuss words. Usually sensor when women are present tho

[MrPhlegm 3413]

I cuss all the time when I'm on the International Space Station

[MrPhlegm 3413]

I work with my dad and a full time mechanic. Plenty of fucking cuss words. Usually sensor when women are present tho

Like an O2 sensor?

[scottsins 1968]

Wrong board. Deleted.

[Macanudo 12990]

Fuck you.  Fuck you.  Fuck you. You're cool.  And fuck you.

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

16 hours ago, MrPhlegm said:

Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Shit! Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse!Balls, balls...fuckity, shit, shit, fuck and willy. Willy, shit and fuck and... tits.

Well done Berty. 

[RDCanecutter 26454]

When I work out of the home office, the dogs don't say cuss-words out loud, but they think them.

When I teach language class in a church, no cussing.

At the college break room, the wimmen cuss up a streak. I call it the Spittin and Cussin Club. Then back out where the students can hear them, they are sweet as sugah.

[RDCanecutter 26454]

And this one time? At Natl Guard camp? I got called out by the tac officers for cussing too much. They made me write a 500-word paper about cussing. Yes, a fucking paper.

I think they wanted the paper to be ANTI-cussing, but they didn't specify. So I wrote that bitch with the thesis that US Army cussing was weak, repetitive, and badly needed a shot in the arm, maybe from our Nato allies. I gave examples and suggested improvements. The Greeks really stood out, those vile shit-in-your-grandmother's-cunt wankers-unto-oblivion. I turned it in and prepared to low-crawl to the chow hall. What happened was they quit fucking with me, and at the end of training I got it back with "HELL YES" scrawled across it.

tldr fuck you.

[Beau Vine 54276]

18 hours ago, ernest_t_bass said:

I'm in education.  So as much as humanly fucking possible. 

Yep.  Fuck these fucking lazy fucking students.

[RDCanecutter 26454]

14 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Yep.  Fuck these fucking lazy fucking students.

And their gotdam jittery parents, more worthless the more money they have to throw at shit.

[HornsOverIthaca 2335]

I wonder what it’s like working with Sydney Carton.

[RDCanecutter 26454]

19 hours ago, Armybrat said:

I was too 40+ years ago, but it was mainly the junior high students.

Junior High service should count as Dog Years when figuring retirement.

[swraith 347]

Every fucking day at work...unless I am at the quarterly Board of Directors meeting. For whatever reason... that is still a no fly zone. At least until dinner/drinks after the BOD meeting.

[wood 11227]

[Beau Vine 54276]

I was in a curriculum meeting last week and told the associate dean: "You can't expect us to make chicken salad out of chicken shit."  Not sure how many people actually heard the end, because half the room was already laughing before I finished.  

[Armybrat 40851]

I always wanted to say that in a faculty meeting but didn’t have the cojones.

 

[Surly Bevo 25073]

Kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss your ass, Happy Hanukkah

[Iceman 2720]

I try not to cuss when employees or customers are around.  One day I went out on one of our loading docks and just let a wicked blue streak go.  It was following a couple of customer issues and a particularly long( and useless) conference call.

I turned to walk back towards the main building and there is one of my female, mid 30's with kids, and very, very polite employees. I just start apologizing bigtime while I am completely embarassed. She says, "Oh we're adults.  It's not that big of a deal."  I reply that I really try to never cuss around co-workers or customers and that I really feel like there are only 2 offensive cusswords  in "G-D" or "J-C"

She deadpans, "Well that was obvious, because those were the only two you didn't use."

 

I sent this in to Reader's Digest.  Still waiting for my $25...

[futureman 22494]

2 minutes ago, Iceman said:

I try not to cuss when employees or customers are around.  One day I went out on one of our loading docks and just let a wicked blue streak go.  It was following a couple of customer issues and a particularly long( and useless) conference call.

I turned to walk back towards the main building and there is one of my female, mid 30's with kids, and very, very polite employees. I just start apologizing bigtime while I am completely embarassed. She says, "Oh we're adults.  It's not that big of a deal."  I reply that I really try to never cuss around co-workers or customers and that I really feel like there are only 2 offensive cusswords  in "G-D" or "J-C"

She deadpans, "Well that was obvious, because those were the only two you didn't use."

 

I sent this in to Reader's Digest.  Still waiting for my $25...

how does she look?  big up-tops?  pics?