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1 minute ago, futureman said:

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

about 55 now.  slim, IBTC.  Lolz.  I don't look at coworkers that way.  Keeps me out of trouble.

1 minute ago, Iceman said:

 Lolz.  I don't look at coworkers that way.  Keeps me out of trouble.

of course you do, it’s evolutionary. you can’t control the forces of nature.   now, you can be human and choose not to act on them, but you’ve definitely thought about shooting your seed inside that loyal co-worker. 



"You can't expect us to make chicken salad out of chicken shit."   


Jester Center food services, "Hold my beer".

Got busted today for saying "No mames weyyyy." I didn't think of it as cussing, but I got voted down.

Most of it is me so...every day.

Seriously though, I usually try to keep it to myself. I used to sit by a guy who dropped continuous F-Bombs from the minute he got in until the minute he left. Sometimes it was entertaining and sometimes it got old. Just depends on the situation.

I'd say other than that, I hear a variety daily, but mostly in a joking manner and never in formal settings.

my personal favorite, but you have to do the voice.

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I work at a shit plant.  We can't talk about our work without cussing.  But not in front of the big bosses or ratepayers.  Wouldn't be prudent.

I work in probably the filthiest OR known to man. It's essentially a high school locker room. Great stuff

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Got busted today for saying "No mames weyyyy." I didn't think of it as cussing, but I got voted down.

Wait ... wtf?

I'm in technology Sales and I am a remote employee. All I do is curse, even when with others. 

50 minutes ago, next2naus said:

I'm in technology Sales and I am a remote employee. All I do is curse, even when with others. 

same. My boss is an executive director, twice removed from the CEO of the company. Our daily conversations are about 80% F bombs. 

Anyone work in the rental car industry?

 

I just want all y'all to know
The reason why I curse is because my momma and my daddy
They grew up cursin
So please respect my style, please!

The office building I work in has zero sound proofing. I would bet they tried to increase the way sound travels, not control it. The sales manager drops the most f-bombs. I don't know why he cant stay in his office to deal with his salesmen instead of walking the halls so everone can hear what is being said. The comptroller is just as bad. I have learned it is easier to go outside on call customers. It is not very professional when the customers can hear the f-bombs going off.

On 9/3/2019 at 6:24 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Got busted today for saying "No mames weyyyy." I didn't think of it as cussing, but I got voted down.

How you know I'm old...

I have since accepted it, but for the longest time, I had a problem with the common use (workplace, tv, etc.) of the word suck.  Everyone over the age of 12 (and many younger) should have guessed it was derivative of cocksucking.  So It became okay to say "you suck [cock, implied] in any given situation.

I have nothing against cocksucking, but find reference to it inappropriate in most public situations, no matter what language. You work with a lot of old farts?

Rant over.

 

I have a wierd "respect" thing where I don't swear around anyone older than me in my family or any professional setting. It doesn't bother me when others do (and working in construction it's pretty often), but I just don't feel comfortable doing it myself. 

I also prefer to keep my work life and personal life separated, so I don't do happy hours and things of that nature. When I'm with friends my language is pretty coarse. 

On 9/1/2019 at 2:03 PM, futureman said:

cursing?  do you mean cussing?

No, he means cursing.

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19 minutes ago, abuelo gringo said:

You work with a lot of old farts?

It was two teenage Mexicanitas who called it cussing. I was the only old fart in the room. They weren't deeply offended, just tagged it as vulgar in an FYI sort of way.

I am in Alabama, where the Mexicans are usually actual Mexico Mexicans who moved here, or their parents did, during the past 20 years. They live halfway inside a sort of 1990s Mexico bubble at home, are familiar with pop music from that era and the early 2000s, not so much more recent stuff. Some of them are hyper-conservative linguistically, one girl told me she had to call her mom "usted", another one (half-Guatemalan) was using turns of phrases that I had never seen until I started reading books from 200 years ago.

OTOH, I had one kid yell "Cabron!" at me because that is what his Spanish-speaking dad used to say to people he liked. He thought it was being friendly. So he said.

My company has very strict policy against it.  Its lazy speech that people use when they cannot effectively make a point.  I can curse with the best of them outside of work, but at work i make a conscience effort to avoid it, as it is disrespectful and shows a general lack of self control.

1 hour ago, immamac said:

Your company sounds like it fucking sucks and you do too. 

Its pretty stuffy, I agree. But fuck it, I like what I do so i assimilate.

I work in the sporting goods industry, so there is a bunch of cursing. I would say at least 25% of the conference calls that I am on have at least one curse word. Most of the time the curse word is used to voice displeasure at someone fucking up.

3 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

Its pretty stuffy, I agree. But fuck it, I like what I do so i assimilate.

I assimilate your mom, and she cusses alot when your not around FYI.

5 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

My company has very strict policy against it.  Its lazy speech that people use when they cannot effectively make a point.  I can curse with the best of them outside of work, but at work i make a conscience effort to avoid it, as it is disrespectful and shows a general lack of self control.

It placates the pussies . it preserves their illusion of civility.

 

That being said, you can dress down the fuck out of someone without profanity.  Cussing just lubes it up a little.

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Thread was promptly abandoned by Tahoe after its initial creation

8 hours ago, abuelo gringo said:

I have nothing against cocksucking, but find reference to it inappropriate in most public situations, no matter what language.

 

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  • 3 years later...

I was present when a friend/ peer screamed fuck you at a reservoir engineer manager in a planning meeting. It remains my most shocking work moment.  We drilled drinks after work because we were certain he’d be canned the next day. He lasted another 2 years. A remarkable testament to the bizarre work culture. 

At home I’ll usually yell fuck at an upsetting email. At the office it’s non-verbal. I’ll punch my desk. Y’all will suggest counseling, but it works. Just don’t break your hand or punch a monitor. 

3 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

An odd bump.

Yeah, no shit. 

There are a lot of phrases throughout this thread that are amusing to assume that Bill must have been searching for. 

Leader in the clubhouse for me is "I assimilate your mom." 

Edited by Prepuce of Doom

In the office we cuss all the time. When we leave and deal with the client it's professional conduct.

When I worked at Uber, the team I was on was mainly young millennials… being a Gen Xer and coming from a more mature tech company I was shocked at how much everyone cussed at work. 

8 hours ago, RPM said:

In the office we cuss all the time. When we leave and deal with the client it's professional conduct.

This. Our internal meetings would make sailors blush. Granted, those are the meetings with my Denver team where I think I’m the oldest at 34 

I'm in construction. Cussing is our lingua franca.

Personally I am not much of a user of cuss words but in my industry it is abundant in use in everyday affairs.  It also depends on what level of meetings you are in as to what cuss words may or may not be used.  If women are around it is toned down a "bit".

I did call a guy out on a flight once to shut up because he went on a F-bomb tirade because someone slid his carry-on bag about a foot forward in the overhead compartment.  There were a lot of women and some kids on the flight.  He shut up quickly.

Edited by mininghorn88

Dude I know from the UK had to be counseled about the use of "cunt" in meetings.

2 hours ago, G650 said:

I'm in construction. Cussing is our lingua franca.

Same for drilling departments at O&G companies. Rig contractors take it to another level.

1 hour ago, baboso said:

Dude I know from the UK had to be counseled about the use of "cunt" in meetings.

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Not any cussing but my god the amount of dark humor and gallows humor directed at patients, situations, families. I had to cut back. At some point you feel the humanity leaving you.

On 7/7/2023 at 8:26 AM, G650 said:

I'm in construction. Cussing is our lingua franca.

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2 of our operations VPs cuss like...  well construction workers.

So does our division president. He gets a pass because it's good to be the king.

 

I'll throw in a few fucks to emphasize a point, but never direct it at anyone.

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