Swearing and inappropriate language in meeting AIBU

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AIBU to have attended a meeting with fuck, fucking, fuckers, etc? I know we need to let off steam though.

Not in full staff, not with official slt meeting, but definitely in.departments.

Depends where you work.

I'm a swearer and my current workplace is v sweaty.

I feel v comfy

I don’t think there is any need to swear. It would never be acceptable at work and never at home. Swearing doesn’t serve any purpose .

In some situations it is the universal adjective. In others not appropriate.

I think it's wrong at work. I used to work with hundreds of soldiers, so you can imagine how bad it was there. It made me hate swearing in the end. I only swear now when I'm really, really angry.

Never swear at work, completely unacceptable in staff meetings.

The only people that swear where I work are the kids. Some of the language that comes out of six year olds is appalling and in the last few years I have been called things I have never been called in real life.

I swear more at work than I do at home. I have a different relationship with my colleagues though as I work in a school. My professionalism is mostly in front of the children and we all relax when it’s just adults about. Swearing also keeps us sane.

Totally depends on the environment, I swear all day at work, NHS office. We're all sweary Mary's yep often "a what the fucking fuck 'blue sky' policy are they instigating now"

I lose professional respect for people who swear frequently in the workplace. It is inappropriate and offensive and they instantly go down in my estimation.

Bella2020 interesting, I had to work with a group of roughnecks (rig workers) for a few days, and they were very careful of their language around me - I'm female and looked about 15 at the time (though I was in my 20's). It was quite sweet!

I used to work in local government, which seems to be very sweary. When I moved out of London to a shire county, I was the first woman to work in that role in that authority.

They were fucking delighted the first time they heard me swear, they thought they'd have to stop once they had a woman on the team.

Our chief officer was generally referred to as That Cunt, or TC. When word got back to him that he was known as TC, he was delighted.

He thought it stood for Top Cat.

Not appropriate at all.

It’s too in crowd.

@LakieLady

Our senior management team are all
Sweaty Marys.. I don't even notice it now.
Our MD told me give someone a "root in the balls" yesterday in an open plan office which did raise a few eyebrows!

I think it depends on whether it’s swearing used as punctuation - “then the fuckity fucker did fucking this and I said fuck all and left them to fuck it up” - or swearing targeted aggressively - “what the fuck did you fucking say you fucking fuck“ - or used to shut people down - “that’s a fucking stupid idea.”

My office was very much a showcase for imaginative use of swearing in general conversation but if anyone became aggressive or bullying they’d get what for.

@bathorshower I once worked in retail in the back office of a store and my desk was outside the security office. The number of shoplifters you’d hear effing and blinding and then they’d be brought out and it would be installed shamefaced expression and “Sorry about the language miss, didn’t see you there.”

At work you have to talk so everyone is comfortable and professional. Swearing is neither.

I work in a very corporate public sector. It's all ultra PC, professional and polite. No one swears.

I used to work in a team providing care to vulnerable families. The whole team swore every other word.

I really miss it!

I work in City law. My current firm is mostly non-sweary. My last firm was never sweary. The place where I started my career was full of people who swore like sailors. I grew up in a working class area of London and was no stranger to swearing but this was quite impressive.

There is nothing impressive about swearing. At work an employee would find their promotion prospects restricted and informed that swearing wasn’t acceptable.

I used to work in the private sector, a multinational company in financial services. Maybe a few people who knew each other well might drop a 'b' or 'f' word but it certainly wasn't the norm and no-one in wider meetings would have dreamed of swearing. It's really not professional.

Normal in our senior team. We try to restrain ourselves when the meeting involves our direct reports though. We're public sector.

I no longer working in the UK, but before I left (2011) swearing was become less acceptable in working environments. I remember someone telling me something was fucking redicilous, then emailing 10 minutes later to apologise (large insurance company).

I would have thought swearing bin the work place was becoming increasingly unacceptable since then.

We used to be able to swear (out of earshot, of course) in my profession.
Kept people in the job and allowed them to let off steam.
Millenials have put an end to it though :(
Could any millenials on here please have a fucking word with themselves.