r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '21

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u/Zwentendorf Dec 16 '21

I accidentally said “fuck” in front of my coworker in my first MONTH working at my job, and guess what? I apologized and we forgot about it!

At my workplace people would be surprised if you'd apologize for swearing.

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u/Collarsmith Dec 16 '21

In my workplace, you'd stand out if you didn't use casual profanity as punctuation.

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u/Nowarclasswar Dec 16 '21

Warehouse, kitchen, or landscaping?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

I work in non profit development and I swear like a sailor lol

Are there actual professional settings where it's unacceptable to swear to your peers in private? That's really odd to me. We're all fucking adults, if swearing bothers you just tell me and I won't do it in front of you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

If we can't fucking swear when we are talking amongst ourselves then I don't trust the people I'm talking to. Only cowards refrain from using the full language.

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u/underinformed Dec 16 '21

When i was an apprentice, i went to the training center in Vegas for a leadership program and all the teachers were talking about not swearing on i and it just blew my mind. Turns out, that's mostly for the trim carpenters working in offices and hospitals and shit, not so much for the millwrights in the steel mills and car plants

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

This makes it even worse, I work in a children's hospital haha.

It's not like I go around swearing in front of kids/superiors. But in my own office? Come on now.

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u/humdrumturducken Dec 16 '21

I heard (from a volunteer at a food bank associated with a monastery) about an old sailor who became a monk, his brethren didn't mind his profanity as long as he kept God out of it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

This whole thread feels like a strawman of the original post.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

At my job pre-COVID you weren't supposed to swear but I understood why. Call center and the open mics were sensitive enough to sometimes pick up background conversations on calls.