Appropriate swearing ?

[shoestring]

Delicate position here so I won't reveal identies but have any of you experienced a female boss that drops f -bombs repeatedly?
Moreso within the "backroom" bunch. But I don't get to see her out of this element so I don't know if this is revalent or prevelant or not.
I do have to cover my phone -"speaker into thingy"
when she comes into my fairly open back room where I am talking to customers.
Can she express herself this way? At work? Is this now a proper or accepted new law?
I am disgusted and disgruntled by this sort of behavior and feel that I should leave.

I am not a prude but then I never ever swore .
Well! Except in anger okay. But always in a sentence.
The word does add weight to certain arguments.
But not for the sake of shocking, at work, we are talking about.
Never at work with employees.

Am I right about this or after 20 + years in my own businesses am I the ignorant one?

[Deelow]

Since when are females allowed to be bosses?

[shoestring]

Originally Posted by Deelow

Since when are females allowed to be bosses?

Mess wouldn't do this.lol

[Vulcan]

I agree with you Shoestring. It kind of makes me cringe to hear someone using the f bomb with no thought. It has a time and a place. I like to only use it when I really mean it. I think it has more power that way. How the f did she get to be a boss?

[rockstar]

There's always a time when it becomes less effective and more just plain obnoxious. Sounds like your boss has crossed that line.

Anyone higher up than her that you could mention it to? If not, try talking to her your-****ing-self.

[shoestring]

She has been with the company through thick and thin.
She knows more about and within the company than virtually anybody. Maybe I exaggerate because she is in the retail area exclusively. But for a younger manager she has already put in a lot of years.
Maybe I am biased because she is new to me and my sense.
But can you walk into a room and say f ,f f,.?

Hey, if my people weren't working with me they could see my anger rise but we would get back to work.
I would rarely drop the f bomb,there had to be a couple times but I can't recall them.
i take managing seriously. People are quite important.

You think I should just confront her?

[BlackArcher101]

Is she hot?

F-Bombs belong in a shop, not in an office.
Confront her and ask her politely to tone it down.

[Bobblehead]

If part of your job is to speak with customers and you are worried that the customers may overhear, then let he know about your concern. While I have been known to swear I would definitely be shocked to hear it in a business context.

[Eddie Bronze]

Originally Posted by shoestring

You think I should just confront her?

If all she says is "****, ****, ****, ****" then maybe she's trying to send you a message, shoe.

Should you confront her? Definitely. Hey, you know Byron would! lol

[greyshep]

I had the same situation here at my work.

One of my co-workers was constantly dropping f bombs. It was just part of his language. I am pretty sure he didnt realize it half the time it became so routine for him.

He was spoken to by mgmt but slowly (quickly actually) it came back.

He recently left the company so I guess the problem has just moved to another building, but it was pretty annoying to have to sit through that.

Very unprofessional and ****ing annoying.

I think you should speak with her about it. Just make sure it is when she is on her own so you dont embarass her in front of others. Save that as a last resort.

[LGA]

Personally I think, in a professional environment the f-bomb should only be reserved for really, really bad situations, otherwise keep it to yourself or make up something creative you can mutter to yourself.

Curses are such a tight rope, I know personally when I'm out with the guys I'll curse without even realizing it, when I play hockey, or any other sport the mouth is churning out swears before I even realize it. But I tone it down when around family and what not. Just not appropriate sometimes.

I also agree with everyone on this board, just confront her (politely of course), she might just accept it as creative critcism and work on that, or she'll throw you on the desk and you'll get her message...

[Tower]

CP loves to use the fudge / mother fudger / Holy mounds of runny fudge! / Hey you're hot! want to fudge! / Fudge they scored/ I fudging scored!

I'm banned... fudge

[Rhettzky]

I don't see the big deal. If she swears a lot and no one has said anything to her yet than what do you expect? Her to just stop one day? Grow a pair and call her on it right away. Getting ****ed off about it and bottling up anger about it is just going to make that confrontation with her that much harder. If the first time she swore in front of you and you said "Yo Bitch, shut your mouth before I knock you the f*** out!" or something along those lines (preferably less vulgar), then she would have understood that you didn't appreciate that type of talk in the office.

[mykalberta]

What type of office/work environment are you in. If you work with "managers" that were former Rig workers etc then most likely they dont know its wrong. I work in an office that has about 60% sales persons in the O&G industry and swaring and "non-appropriate" movies are emailed between each other and watched.

Because I work on the IT side of things I dont bother mentioning it to anyone unless it ustilizes IT resources (because of the emailing of movie files I have had to restrict inter-company attachments to 3.5 Mb for the default user) - the usual suspects (managers, VP, Pres, IT) are excluded of course because movie and joke files have a tgendancy to pin an Exchange Server.

MYK

[shoestring]

Well it doesn't matter now anyway.I was fired.
A customer of ours was desperately waiting for our warehouse to ship a product to them. I found out the warehouse was also waiting for that product.
I volunteered to take enough product to last them a day or two and deliver it personally.
I was told under no uncertain terms that we do not do that kind of thing because it would require extra effort and time and we don't do exemplary service.
It was the end of the day so I purchased the product with my own money and dropped it off at an office beside the clients. Wrote a note to the client and realized that I should research where I want to work a little more thoroughly.
I guess I shouldn't have spent countless hours putting together a marketing plan for the company in my spare time. Nor should I have met clients after hours to help them with their company marketing plans or create a synergy between the two companies that would benefit both.
What am I saying! I will always do exactly that.

Might be the last time I ever work as an employee,though.

[4X4]

Well, now that you've got no strings attached, you might as well start a cp boycott against your ex employer... Give it up! Who is the villain?

[shoestring]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Well, now that you've got no strings attached, you might as well start a cp boycott against your ex employer... Give it up! Who is the villain?

I'm not sure that would be the proper thing to do.
Well maybe it would be,lol.
I think first I will go right over her head and see if I can sell myself/my company to the H.O. I did create some terrific ideas and maybe I can refocus this company that seems to be without focus or passion.
But hey if they reject me too,the first volley has been tossed and all is fair.
Where is my SunTzu book of war,....?

[JiriHrdina]

That sucks dude. Companies should admire that type of service. The fact that they would fire you for going above and beyond is horrible. Some of the most progressive companies out there have rewarded employees for exhibiting just that type of initiative.

Sounds like you worked for a bunch o' chumps. Chumps suck.

[Tron_fdc]

I just hired a new guy, and he's getting a quick intro to Alberta Trucker Mouth. He's all proper english 'n sh*t, so it's effin funny.

We need a swear jar I think.