We all do it from time to time no matter how moral or upright we think we are. Let’s face it. I feels damn good when we do it. There is just something about dropping the “F bomb” that releases a lot of tension and pent up emotions. In fact, i just did it as I’m sitting at the keyboard writing this: just spilled coffee all over the desk because my cat jumped up and scared the s*&@# out of me. Damn that felt good…I swear! 
Anyway….what I was getting at was that swearing does release a lot of frustration and anger usually within one word. Amazing how that works. Research has been done at New Zealand’s Victoria University that basicaly said that ‘letting it rip’ wont change or improve the situation but it is a useful emotional release.
So, the question is, do you as a manager let your employee or employees swear around the office? My answer to that would be ABSOLUTELY! However, a word of caution. It has to be in context. What I mean by that is that a person shouldn’t go around the workplace just uttering curse words for the sake of it. It might offend an employee or a customer. It is also bad manners to do that. I never saw anything wrong with my team while they were in the office and talking amongst themselves to swear every now and then. I’m certainly not condoning the idea of every second word a person utters to be a swear word. That just shows a lack of vocabulary if nothing else. And an employee should NEVER EVER swear in front or at a customer. In my early days at managing I told one customer that he was a f%^& idiot and to get out of my store! That did not go down well at all with upper management and I nearly got the boot.
Believe it or not but the same study also concluded that staff members who have a bitch and a moan to each other improves morale around the workplace too. The F word is the most commonly used swear word but in the context of a close knit team, it could not be considered offensive. To me, that makes perfect sense. If it doesn’t to you, please let me know what you think about this.
There are enough pressures at the work place these days and by letting your staff swear around each other to release the tensions of a bad day, let them do it. It costs nothing and the less you have to do to maintain their motivation and morale the better.
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Hi Travis
thanks for those words of encouragement. I haven’t been posting as much as I should here but I will in the future. I have had quite a few issues with my web hosts of late and that’s meant the sites been off line on and off for awhile now thus affecting traffic etc. Hopefully all of that’s a thing of the past now and it’s time to push forward again.
Cheers
Andrew B.
I’m normally not the guy to post my opinion on other’s sites, but for your post I simply needed to do it. I have been browsing around your website a lot nowadays and I am really impressed, I think you could potentially become a main voices for your niche. Not sure what your workload is like in life, but if you started devoting more time to writing here, I would bet you would start seeing a lot of traffic eventually. With ads, it might become a nice reserve income stream. Just an idea to ponder. Good luck!
hope everything goes your way
Thanks for this brilliant article. I am delighted after reading this. Thank you!
Great. It’s the same here in New Zealand. Can be very amusing, but that’s how it is in the 21st century.
OK! I don’t mind an educational article once in a while! They don’t all need tobe so serious ;-P … I sit all day at work in front of a computer and I need something to keep me awake and entertained, lol. Thanks again. Cheers
K. Littler
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