A member of the Baby Boomer generation recently commented on the absolute 100% comfort, members of the T-Ball generation appear to have developed, in dropping the F-Bomb and other choice language in and around the office.  It’s because of the time they spend on social networking sites, this Boomer suggested.  There’s something about the anonymity of those sites that seems to encourage people to write exactly what they think and feel without using any sort of filter.  Increasingly, that same unfiltered expression occurs in face-to-face conversations. 

 

Members of the T-Ball generation now entering the workforce may wish to stop and think before they use obscenities at work.  It turns out, frequent dropping of the F-Bomb and other words may constitute a firing offense.  In fact, according to a survey conducted by Ladder.com, 36% of more than 2,000 executives said they had issued a formal warning to an employee who frequently swore at work and 6% said they had fired an employee for swearing at work.

 

If you find you’re having a hard time searching for other words to use, especially when you feel emotional or frustrated, follow the lead of Jim O’Connor, an “expletive expert” and author of Cuss Control.  O’Connor suggests substituting “shoot” for “sh-t“ and saying “bungled” the next time you want to say “f--ked up.”  O’Connor reports that he even prefers to use the word “gargoyle” as a substitute for the word “a--hole.”  It makes people laugh, he says, thereby helping to defuse a potentially hostile situation.