I don't claim to be pure as the driven snow, but I also don't generally use that kind of language. It sure does affect my judgement of a person who talks that way. You have to admit, that the F-word is a pretty universal word. It can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, you name it. None-the-less I think it devalues someone like a sales person or anyone for that matter when it's overused.
I know that when I, or an associate encounters someone with the
affliction, it tends to be notable in a not-positive way.
I also recall when I was little (as in a pre-teen boy), my family
went to a fishing resort for several years. The guy who owned the
resort was Gilbert Norman (he has got to be long gone by now).
Gilbert was (apparently, as I learned this after I was "adult")
quite a "flowery" talker. Sprinkled little F-bombs and other NSFW
words when he talked. All except when children were present. He
was apparently very aware of children and the disapproval he would
get when speaking that way in front of children. So when kids were
around all his swear words were changed to "by jeepers creepers"
or an abbreviation of same. All of us kids just called him
"Jeepers". We all loved him.
bp
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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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