Those of you that work in the corporate world outside of the LDS bubble...

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Sep 17, 2014
1:35:42pm

yorksama

Those of you that work in the corporate world outside of the LDS bubble...

How common is swearing in the workplace? I'm not talking about blue-collar jobs. You hear cursing all the time with those jobs no matter where you live.

I want to know how often you hear a CEO-type drop the bomb in a conference room setting.

My wife thinks it's not common outside of the Mormon bubble. I think it's more common than she believes. Back me up here.

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Those of you that work in the corporate world outside of the LDS bubble...

yorksama

9/17/14 1:35pm

Very common. Depends on the audience in any given setting

BlackBart

9/17/14 1:36pm

Very common.

vacougfan

9/17/14 1:37pm

Very blankety-blank-blank common.

9/17/14 1:38pm

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Dread Pirate Westley

9/17/14 2:02pm

It depends on the person you are interacting with but I would say I usually

Mikey

9/17/14 1:38pm

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Tyler

9/17/14 1:41pm

unfortunately all the time and when you don't join in

OU Cougar

9/17/14 1:39pm

I don't agree with this

Sea Chicken

9/17/14 1:41pm

Yes and no. My LDS boss told me that I should swear more to show passion at work

CougsOrDeath

9/17/14 2:16pm

Dumb! You can be passionate without swearing. My brother once told off

ByuImaginesDragons

9/17/14 9:10pm

I fully agree.

CougsOrDeath

9/18/14 9:24am

Huh? Are you a professional teenager.

Byron McNertney

9/17/14 1:42pm

worse...a lawyer

OU Cougar

9/17/14 1:45pm

RE: worse...a lawyer

CATXCoug

9/17/14 1:47pm

Agreed- lawyers speaking with other lawyers- some lang. is almost mandatory.

SwampCougar

9/17/14 2:13pm

Just started working at my first job in DC and hear it once an hour at least...

9/17/14 1:39pm

my friend non lds was chief of staff to an lds congressman who said no cussing

OU Cougar

9/17/14 1:43pm

I had a friend that told the same story

Sea Chicken

9/17/14 1:48pm

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kunarcougar

9/17/14 2:00pm

It's very common. I started my career at the Church. It was a bit of a cultural

hessrp

9/17/14 1:39pm

At least 1 f-bomb when I attend global sales meeting. 2-3 other.

refunder

9/17/14 1:39pm

I work in SLC area for a company that people think of as an "LDS" type business

CougsOrDeath

9/17/14 1:40pm

Essential oils???

Mister P

9/17/14 1:41pm

Haha, good guess. I work for a company that is discussed on here frequently

CougsOrDeath

9/17/14 2:15pm

Same.

BYUtka

9/17/14 1:53pm

Very common

Biyamiti

9/17/14 1:40pm

I've known high level execs who cuss like stevedores, but most try to keep it

Byron McNertney

9/17/14 1:40pm

very common

nashty

9/17/14 1:40pm

Common, but infrequent and mostly PG/PG-13 in nature

Indy Coug

9/17/14 1:40pm

it's common.

Mayor of Cougartown

9/17/14 1:40pm

Extremely uncommon.

Illegal Jimmergrant

9/17/14 1:41pm

In my office, inside the "bubble" it is very common.

fredgarvin

9/17/14 1:41pm

My boss is a very conservative, etiquette aware partner, but I hear him

UNLVcougar

9/17/14 1:41pm

Very common.

Ackman

9/17/14 1:41pm

We have a strict no swearing policy

2FarGone

9/17/14 1:41pm

I work in law - not corporate, but close - and, yeah, it's constant.

jayriggity

9/17/14 1:41pm

Didn't hear it a lot in 10 years in Tennessee....

Hawk in the 303

9/17/14 1:42pm

Its very common here in the bubble so I'd assume its common outside

joehayes

9/17/14 1:43pm

sorry, what is swearing again? (I live in "the bubble")

Garn

9/17/14 1:43pm

I heard way more cussing by active LDS in utah than non-mbrs outside utah.

9/17/14 1:43pm

My CEO drops F-Bombs all the time, even in front of the whole company

workindev

9/17/14 1:44pm

I certainly think it's unprofessional...

CATXCoug

9/17/14 1:45pm

I'm in the bay area, it's not all the time in my division, but it's definitely

flavordave

9/17/14 1:45pm

happens 15-20 times per day.

thebruce

9/17/14 1:48pm

Very common. Phoenix AZ fortune 500 type company.

Thrill

9/17/14 1:50pm

One large, multi-billion company that I worked for in a previous professional

buzzard

9/17/14 1:51pm

Every other bleeping word in the military....some units it's every third word.

Cougar2000

9/17/14 1:55pm

Fairly infrequent in my board room

maizecoug

9/17/14 1:55pm

Watch The Wolf if Wall Street...that gives a fairly accurate of the work place

kotacoug

9/17/14 2:01pm

I worked in Davis County with mostly non-members in a setting where you'd think

CrackerJack

9/17/14 2:01pm

Depends on your org

cougarblue

9/17/14 2:02pm

I work in a law firm and swearing is constant. I like salty language, so it

CDV

9/17/14 2:02pm

Never in a conference or large meeting. But often in private, informal meetings.

garyfan

9/17/14 2:04pm

Very common

SoCalCoug

9/17/14 2:04pm

had a female audit manager that would use the f-bomb every other sentence

JONBOY

9/17/14 2:05pm

What ever happened to this former miss VA....

9/17/14 2:11pm

Reminds me of George Costanza:

monteburns

9/17/14 2:12pm

Swearing: The Great Equalizer

badodo

9/17/14 2:12pm

Very common, I hear pretty much every word you could ever imagine

JOPE

9/17/14 2:16pm

Everywhere that I have worked

HiLife

9/17/14 2:17pm

I have heard it very rarely in professional jobs. If I do hear it, is is

Banjo Blues

9/17/14 2:23pm

I have never heard a single F bomb in a meeting working for Domino's, Wal-mart

JAGA97

9/17/14 2:25pm

Has become more common, unfortunately.

9/17/14 2:26pm

No just common, more like constant

citizen16

9/17/14 2:50pm

My atheist, scientist, highly educated best friend rarely uses the f-word and

ByuImaginesDragons

9/17/14 9:17pm

Every day, all day. Not too often w/ the directors though

ocmyhome

9/17/14 4:09pm

My consulting firm's c-suite drops F-bombs quite frequently, especially on calls

P-Widdy

9/17/14 4:26pm

Sounds like your wife has lived a very sheltered life

SBJ

9/17/14 5:23pm

And that's not a bad thing at all.

Dread Pirate Westley

9/17/14 6:57pm

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