My day to day language is admittedly pretty salty, especially when tired or after a few beverages. Must be my inner grumpy redneck. But you have to be able to flip that switch when you're in a professional setting unless you've bonded with someone of a like mind. The new sales reps are surprised when they get on a client call for the first time or two with me and I kick into what I call "customer voice". The circle back afterwards is always a good time.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:54 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > > 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? > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
