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REAL LIFE NEWS: TRIPLE H! SWEARING AT WORK IS GOOD FOR YOU

by Hazed

It seems our invention of some new Fed swears a few weeks ago in the Top Ten was very timely, because a new study shows that swearing at work is a good thing. It can help boost team spirit among staff, allow them to express their feelings better, and help develop social relationships.

That's the conclusion of Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University of East Anglia, and graduate Stuart Jenkins. They studied the use of profanity in the workplace and assessed its implications for managers.

Obviously they are from the Department of Stating the Bleeding Obvious, because they assessed that swearing would become more common as traditional taboos are broken down, but the key appeared to be knowing when such language was appropriate and when to turn a blind eye.

For slithy's sake, I think we could have worked that out ourselves!

They said that swearing in front of senior staff or customers should be seriously discouraged or banned, but in other circumstances it helped foster solidarity among employees and express frustration, stress or other feelings.

Find out more by reading this BBC news story.

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