# How much inappropriate banter goes on at your work? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576 "2013-12-05T15:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/41 "2013-12-07T01:10:11Z")
A sexual harassment training person would have fainted in my office. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/42 "2013-12-07T01:45:40Z")
I’m now using a speech recognition program, so the quantity and volume of my swearing has gone up by orders of magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/43 "2013-12-07T02:18:43Z")
Global 50 company. Some swearing but have a top exec that finds it offensive. Plus decades of HR. I don’t even think about sexual innuendo. I previously worked on trading floors in Asia. Which was about as extreme as anything. I miss those days but it ain’t the end of the world. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/44 "2013-12-07T02:37:50Z")
None. At any place I’ve worked at this millennium. Except that time two men stood up from the conference table to make pumping motions from their groins. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/45 "2013-12-07T03:10:56Z")
> [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > I’m now using a speech recognition program, so the quantity and volume of my swearing has gone up by orders of magnitude. Nice username/post combo. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/46 "2013-12-08T06:18:58Z")
When I first started at the large-ish law firm 20 years ago, the average age skewed young and booming business made it a high-stress place. Language and behavior skewed filthy and even occasionally scandalous. (I will say, though, that when the big-company client rep visiting from out of town offered his hotel room key to our 19-year-old IT clerk and thereby freaked her out, the partner on that matter made a few calls and got us a new client rep). Now that I’m so much older and working for the government, the office climate is squeaky clean. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/47 "2013-12-08T06:29:44Z")
\<8 people in our office and all I do is sell to plumbers on da nortwest sida Chicago so, yeah, about as inappropriate as you’d imagine. ---
**Author:** ![InappropriateHumor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/48 "2013-12-08T07:41:03Z")
I work in an office with 8 other women, all between 35 and 50. We talk about everything from breast augmentation to what kind of batteries are longest lasting in a personal massager. “That’s what she said” jokes are constantly floating around. When the CFO comes by he often leaves in a hurry. Guess he embarrasses easily. No racism, but plenty of other inappropriate banter. I love those ladies! ---
**Author:** ![James\_Toothpaste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/49 "2013-12-08T16:51:55Z")
Oh, a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/50 "2013-12-08T17:04:50Z")
None at all allowed. We have 3 full days of brainwashing, I mean training, every year in the proper language and responses. The words we are allowed to use resemble the English language but have different meanings. It is a very PC, very stifling environment. Many common words are unacceptable to use. For instance you cannot call anyone a liar. The correct term to use for “liar” is “inaccurate reporter.” I shit you not. ---
**Author:** ![InappropriateHumor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@InappropriateHumor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InappropriateHumor)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/51 "2013-12-08T17:09:51Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > I work in Medicare product management and the first of the year is almost upon us. If you were at my work place, you’d hear a lot of f-bombs this time of year. That and hysterical laughter. I’m a Medicare biller right now and before that I sold Medicare products. I bet the hysterical laughter is reaching epic proportions. My sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/52 "2013-12-09T03:13:52Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > It is a very PC, very stifling environment. Many common words are unacceptable to use. For instance you cannot call anyone a liar. The correct term to use for “liar” is “inaccurate reporter.” How often is it the case that, in a work setting, it is necessary to accuse someone of being a liar? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/53 "2013-12-09T03:55:03Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > How often is it the case that, in a work setting, it is necessary to accuse someone of being a liar? When dealing with rebellious students, I would say often. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/54 "2013-12-09T03:58:41Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > It is a very PC, very stifling environment. Many common words are unacceptable to use. For instance you cannot call anyone a liar. The correct term to use for “liar” is “inaccurate reporter.” Inaccurate reporter, inaccurate reporter, breeches conflagration. ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576/55 "2013-12-09T18:34:47Z")
Well, the other night I walked in on one guy telling another a story about his run in with a woman, whom he thinks was actually the devil, telling him to eat her pussy. So, yeah, I would say there is at least some. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-inappropriate-banter-goes-on-at-your-work/675576.md?page=2)