If it's not going to help you make the sale then don't say it.
Ken Hohhof wrote:
I don’t think it is now or has ever been appropriate for a sales rep to use
that kind of language. Other language like racial and ethnic jokes may have
changed over time, but it’s just plain stupid for a sales person to use
offensive language.
Trying to set language standards for a video blogger however is probably
expecting too much.
I have not noticed that millennials have thinner skins than the general
population. I can think of a 73 year old politician who seems very thin
skinned. And there are billionaire entrepreneurs who are surprised that
calling someone a “pedo guy” is considered defamatory. Yes, there are
millennials with thin skin, and her name is Karen.
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Had a vendor make a visit to my company a while back and during the visit he
was dropping the F bomb left and right. I would have thought he would have
toned it down as my wife was in the meeting. After he left I told a
manufacturer’s rep about it and he contacted the guys boss and the next thing I
know the guy is apologizing. Was not trying to cause him problems as work,
just asking for a sanity check.
I have been in probably thousands of board and business meetings over the
years, and don’t recall anyone ever being gratuitous in the use of the F word.
I do recall one of the big bosses at Harris Broadcast in Quincy Il complaining
about their director of sales being too salty for high end businesses meetings.
Then yesterday I was taken to task by a video blogger which had done a pretty
good job in his Tesla review except for the F bomb every other sentence. I
told him it was about as welcome as a fart in an elevator. He thinks I am too
old to have a valid opinion. I guess he is one of those thin skinned
millennials...
TV shows it all the time, but I don’t think it is common in the business world.
Perhaps Utah is in a bubble?
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