Swearing in workplace

DKLS

asajj wrote: »

They are your clients not the drinking buddies so not sure how it would be acceptable to tell this to them at all.

They are not mutually exclusive, I have had some epic and legendary nights out with customers and suppliers. Some of the best deals and business relationships I have been involved with have been sealed over a good session and a number have evolved into friendships.

Business isn't always done over the phone or in a crappy office, sometimes deals are done at 4am in a nightclub. :beer: in fact some cultures insist on building relationships and getting to know you before deals are signed.

Op play the game, apologise profusely, tug your forelock promise it will never happen again and you should get away with it.

BlueEyedGirl

It is most unprofessional to use that term in the workplace / office.

gettingtheresometime

Are your phone calls recorded?

(and lets face it you know and I know what you meant!)

if they are then the trying to argue that BS stands for business service maybe spitting into the wind

d70cw6

lol i work in internal audit at tarmac which operates a vaste number of quarries / cement plants / rmx concrete sites etc.

i hear jolly good profanities from the lads quite often. the damn plebs!

shopbot

Lostboy99 wrote: »

Thanks for your feedback, now for the legal question, BS could stand for a manner of things, Bill suspension business service, etc it could be interperated as something different as the term itself is actually an attempt at self censorship, I feel if the matter gets taken further I could win a tribunal case against the company, the client was actually swearing like a trooper at me as he normally does! Again how can you prove how it is interpreted?

Honestly? Trying that line makes you sound like you are completely clutching at straws. Tribunals should be for the really serious stuff like harassment or bullying. Not for someone who has been caught out and wants to win on a technicality. You'll also have the issue of taking an employer to a tribunal which maybe viewed in different lights by future employers.

xapprenticex

d70cw6 wrote: »

lol i work in internal audit at tarmac which operates a vaste number of quarries / cement plants / rmx concrete sites etc.

i hear jolly good profanities from the lads quite often. the damn plebs!

Yes in the kind of environment where you're around manual labour workers, you'll hear all sorts as I did when I was younger doing warehouse work.

Now that im in a professional environment.... I still hear it ...... but not around clients, thats just a no.

I remember once upon a time I did some xmas work in an airport cleaning aircraft for a short period... the foul language and bragging about cheating on wives was astonishing, thought I was on another planet. Not my sort of environment.

Lostboy99

Interesting views on this subject, maybe a slap on the wrist is required, I've seen people do worse and get away with it, i take all points of view, a simple ticking off would suffice, after all I have worked there for 6 years with a clean record.

DandelionPatrol

shopbot wrote: »

I think the point is not about the swearing but the fact you are speaking negatively about your employer to a client. Of course they are going to have an issue with that.

Where do you get that 'fact' from? OP certainly did not say he did that.

andygb

Lostboy99 wrote: »

If it did go legal, would it not be how it was interpreted as stating when I said BS it stood for business service and that's how I interpret it. I'm guessing this is a huge grey area in terms of how a lawyer would defend my case.

Clutching at straws I think;)

Andypandyboy

I think it is less a matter of what you said but the fact that there was a negative connotation about your employer to a client.