Is it ok to swear in your workplace?

[i-need-a-martini]

I was just reading (a particularly boring article) about swearing in the workplace and was wondering what was appropriate or not?

In my office we all swear like crazy and no word is off limits but never in front of clients and never at each other.  BUt everyone is young and creative and a little hyper so it kind of goes with the territory.

Is it OK?

http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/should-you-swear-in-the-office-20130614-2o88d.html

[lobs211]

Doesn't matter whether people wear suits or work boots....it's respectful not to swear

LOL - that is in your world

Other people are different - some people don't hold swearing & disrespect together, Im not talking about swearing in public or at someone, Im talking about at work in conversation.

[*new2vintage]

%$#@&^

[lionrose.7]

I never used to swear at all, if I dropped some thing on my foot I would say Basket Balls.

When I was a on site Property manager I was sworn at many times LOL

Not once did I swear back at the tenants BUT after they had walked out of the office I would let fly and get it of my chest.

Then I would laugh, kept the stress level down.

[twinkles**stars]

my world? if respect is not an on going thing and you swear freely does that not just become a general behaviour habbit? 

[azureline**]

My sister swears, despite all efforts to change her habits..... however, she doesn't do it at my house... or around children... or at school.... or around certain friends..... so I ask... she can stop... so why doesn't she?

because she has friends who accept it and do it themselves, it's just a habit, a bad one imo.

She agrees.

[cueperkins]

I remember years back when EEO first came in and a Fire Brigade mate was telling me that they'd been stitched with a female Captain (with very little field experience)...now that might seem sexist to say that, but according to the men, she was more concerned about their 'language', than their work skills & team work, which didn't go down too well in an 'all male' work crew, who I'd reckon, might even swear in their sleep.

Bearing in mind this is the kind of job where everyone has to have each others' backs or someone could die.

I remember during the black Saturday bush fires, one regional fire captain said the 'f' word while telling his crew to get out of the path of a fire storm.......and he was stood down?...like seriously???????

I couldn't give a rats posterior how he said it, he was trying to save lives...sheesh...this society has gone PC mad when we crucify a hero for swearing....that's more like America than OZ.  Over there you can't swear but you can buy semi automatic weapons of mass destruction out of a walmart catalogue...go figure.

[i-need-a-martini]

I love a good swearing episode. 😄

My nearly 70 year old boss is a lovely, quiet, cultured and extremely intelligent man. But gees I get a kick when he goes off with the F words. He always apologises to the office cause it is so unexpected.

[cueperkins]

me too martini.....it's cathartic.....therapeutic even.......lol

[the_hawk*]

swearing is not part of my normal conversation, it only occurs under certain situations like hitting ones finger with a hammer or getting cut

[cueperkins]

really Hawk?  says who?.....e.g. blood with a 'Y', gets used all the time in this household as are many other once everyday Aussie figures of speech....though you couldn't name 'em here.

they just don't sound the same if ya says it any other way....e.g....

*Excrement for brains*; *No 2  Stirrer*; *Smart Bottom*; *Clever Richard*; *Micturate off* *Posterior Kisser* ....nup.....it just doesn't have that Aussie ring does it?

Why whitewash communication?...what's next?....thought police?...Orwell would be proud....or scared 'Shirtless'.....:^O