Wow, that felt good. 

Researchers at University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K., conducting a leadership study found the use of “taboo language” made the workplace more tolerable, according to Australia’s Daily Telegraph.

Get the $%&*^ out!

Wow, that really felt good.

Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University of East Anglia, and graduate Stuart Jenkins studied the use of profanity in the workplace and assessed its implications for managers.  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 to blind eye.

OK, first by a show of hands, who the !&#*% has ever heard of Anglia, let alone East Anglia?  Is there a West Anglia as well?  To show you the strange little things I remember from my high school days, Anglia means England in Latin.  Yes, Latin.  The dead language.  The dead language I was forced to learn from seventh through tenth grade.  The dead language I studied again as a Freshman and Sophomore in college.  The dead language that forced me to translate Virgil’s Aeneid before I realized that you could go to the library and get the stupid thing already translated.  You know it, “E Pluribus Unum” the motto carried by the American Eagle (out of many, one is what the Latin translates into).  OK, back to the #$^%* study.

OK, I’m sensing I’m going a little overboard on the cussin’, I’ll try to watch my $%&@^  language.

The pair said 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.

Yea, dropping the f-bomb in front of the CEO or a top customer may not be the best use of flowery language.  “Hey Bob, we appreciate your business, but can you do something about your &*$^@! finance department and get them to cut us a &^!#@ check?” Or… “Boss, I really do appreciate your constant criticism of my performance, but do you realize what a holy $*&^! you are?”

Now I need to try to be serious for a second.  There is an underlying fact in the study that bears itself out in my own company’s research on employee engagement.  Getting along well with co-workers, feeling like part of the family, having a personal/psychological connection with the company, and having a good relationship with the boss are all critical aspects of an employee’s relationship with their employer.

Managers who don’t understand this simple fact will wind up Going to Hell in a Handbasket. 

Whew, I think I got away with one that time.  Have a nice &*@#^ day.