Swear words are usually considered workplace taboos -- yet the debate continues over whether these words are inappropriate, or examples of free speech. Learn more about using swear words at work in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
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that sounds like it can only mean one thing: today's topic of choice is swearing at work, a good thing, John, you seem to be
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you remember my where you're hawaiian shirt to work campaign. The whole thing was Justin.
I get everybody loosen up and get to know each other? Well, it didn't take as well, as I had hoped
or non starting a swear. It worked campaign. Ah you can. I knew exactly where they came from this article. You I caught his swearing at work, a good thing, yeah yeah. This is based on actual sunny we're not just like tossing onwards for fun. Here. This came out. I have great, but-
the University of EAST Anglia, where essentially, some researchers looked at what happens to people whose
or in the workplace. Jelly hung on a mail order where yeah and they re looking to see if swearing at work, alienated, coworker,
or is it actually brought them closer together with an enormous salty language and people really shine their true colours? Yours, you, I can see a lot of cheap Brits running around the mail order, warehouse just pursuit of the storm. You know he had to have been a really fun stuff.
Do you imagine, for, I think, scientist pretty successful through because a hypothesis wise correct it really did establish better relationships among employees because they could feel like they were really expressing them.
And really communicating with everyone and nothin tick way. Short answer is pretty much basic social bonding theory. The more you share of yourself, the more you can establish social bonds. Like trust, I mean, how can you truly trusted coworker if they ve never heard you swear?
We think about how much closer you- and I are thanks to the word curve- someone you know that kind of thing-
it is every time you turn article two may but interesting, especially about the study? Is that
tat. The mailroom workers like you, are referring to the sort of lower level employees yeah. They really let it read all the time you back when they examined how the executors behaved and spoke to each other. No one really has thought. Might
a little bit more reserved and refined way. Will the study
authors were saying that,
They hope that while management might not swear they they want.
To see, hr directors, maybe look the other way or even encourage it, because it does develop social bond.
You know that you thank a study. Really didn't you know, put the whole thing. The is a pretty.
Whether or not we should allow swearing in our culture, whether beyond worker television, radio is a pretty big ongoing battle every day, and I now, for instance, I was looking at the sea, and
the rules that they had about wearing on the
the idea of a fleeting export have, which is essentially, when you say, like a hot Pisa,
that's not really in contacts with anything relating to sexual
tat are a bathroom humor, sometimes as they feel that networks get away with that, but when you're talkin about and there's a toilet, the same sentence that night.
Y know. I agree in the Ets. He sees actually as strict as you might think, their standards are there not strict enough for some people. Have you heard of
There is television council, yes anymore, ok, well, that they actually view may be upset about it. They went after
Producers of one of your favorite shows gossip girl,
they had a year, they were you
beginning to hang the swearing or campaign higher take out like a lion, sir and mine is to answer that?
the gossip girl, for this kind of
Let me add, promo campaign that they came up with. They also didn't like gum, thirty rock, no violent episode. Did you see that one unless it was a good one, but the appearance, television council they might get? And actually these people are pretty scientific? They buy
studies of how much of an increase in
vanity, there's been on television overset number of years, so, for instance, and this during the family, our which is eight to nine p m. There is a twenty two percent increase from.
Two thousand and the two thousand six in
vanity right
Found a hundred and fifteen foul words in a hundred media is a programme which is four point. Five three swears an hour
The most amazing thing is it. Somebody actually sat there and watch the hundred and eighty hours of television programming counted. Everyone swears clearly I'm in the ground business, but if you want to check out more of our researchers, Josh's article on swearing at work, a good thing that works with the more or less and thousands of other topics as it has suffered a com. What is now what you think the name out upon cast it has to Fort Stopcock brought to buy the reinvented two thousand twelve Camry. It's ready are you the future is closer than you think, and it all starts in the palm of your hand, you may have heard the news five g is coming in this new. I hot series this time tomorrow, presented by team above a business, join me as well,
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