Not in the *&^%ing workplace too !

After reading the article from The Atlantic and watching George Carlin's rant about the acceptability (or lack thereof) of using explicit language, i found a relevant article on the Drexel database. The article is entitled "Profanity in the Workplace." It comes from a magazine called Management Review. The article briefly speaks of where to draw the line that separates practicing your freedom of speech and receiving a lawsuit. The article concludes that most explicits are forbidden in the workplace because of their heavy sex, race, and religious connotations. This article parallels the article from The Atlantic in the sense that both of them are having trouble deciding which words are truly worth censoring. How do you keep the workplace or the community clean without becoming tyrannical? Also what is to become of slip ups? such as, "Oh Shit i dropped that hammer on my foot!" or, "f*&! that TPS cover sheet is due today!?" The resolve for the management article is that the manager of this business is going to post a notice explicitly defining words not to use which will disengage the company from any possible lawsuit on an individuals behavior. Whereas, the FCC will have a harder time regulating explicit words on the air because some words are acceptable when used in different context such as, "Ow! i pricked my finger."