wonder what the overlap is between people who are cool with this guy at work vs people who want to see ppl who use slurs on anon accounts fired, and vice versa ha ha do i really wonder (no)https://twitter.com/InaneDragon/status/1492706230489518086 …
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the stable compromise point is "actually dont take your whole self to work. at work you adopt the same bland and inoffensive work persona as everyone else because your job is not a vehicle for political expression. keep that shit off-hours and we pretend that self doesnt exist"
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ugh as a ~creative~ I find this really difficult. good advice though...
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hmmm whats a case where this fails for you? trying to make the objection a bit more concrete to myself
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a really anodyne example is that I swear about 5x more than any of my colleagues
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lmao i explicitly asked our common link person what the optimal amount of swearing is at $CurrentWorkplace to optimize my persona
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this feels like such a class thing to me which is weird because I "should" be part of the swearing-not-so-much class, and sort of want to be, but actually am not
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swearing, and taboos against swearing are good, but only when they come in that pairing they are good because they provide an opportunity for someone to demonstrate their ability to (a) understand contextual clues (b) engage in extremely mild self censorship >>>
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if someone can not moderate their swearing in a professional situation, if they are an outlier and swear much more than others, it proves that they are defective in either understanding contexts, or in very mild self censorship in service to business goals this is excellent info
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it's notable that every single culture has tabooed words it seems insanely unlikely that this would happen unless where was a Very Good Reason
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I'll bet you that it was context dependent; that they did it amongst themselves, but not in front of the group X or Yhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1492961006229671936 …
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one common use of cussing is to mildly violate norms to establish a deeper social bond
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I have a very limited frame of reference in this because swearing is so ingrained in the military it's present to a very high degree even amongst the more seasoned individuals you'd expect more propriety from. Or perhaps it's their August nature that makes it more effective.
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im not sure its necessarily about class, maybe more about subculture?
i once went out with some C-level executives from a Huge firm and they cussed nonstop