Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk

Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk by xanados on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @10:41PM (#3214153)

One nuance to this is that not all profanity is created equally. Essentially none of the people here that would drop the F-bomb in a presentation would utter the word "cunt" in any remotely professional environment. It connotes disrespect much more strongly and status perhaps very little, probably negatively.

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Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk by astrec on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @11:00PM (#3214193)

I've found anecdotally that acceptance of that word in a professional environment is limited to the two tails of the income distribution.

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Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk by sp4rki on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:03AM (#3215671)

Interestingly enough 10 minutes before reading this I told my boss that: "Visual studio is a fucking cunt and I will kill you if my phone starts ringing every 5 minutes like it did at 3am because you where fucking up the builds." He laughed...

I guess it just comes down to the corporate culture of where you work. I also got asked what my thoughts where on C# and .Net on my interview... I said "It fucking sucks..." got hired on the spot... and got to work on lots of VS projects!

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Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk by wgx on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @05:33AM (#3215014)

US readers might be interested to know that, while very offensive, the 'c word' is much, much less taboo in the UK. In fact, there's a well-established feminist movement to 'reclaim' the word.

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