{"id":34258,"date":"2012-07-26T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=34258"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:46:48","slug":"profanity-is-unprofessional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/profanity-is-unprofessional\/","title":{"rendered":"Profanity Is Unprofessional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>David Mielach, “How Swearing at Work Could Ruin Your Career<\/a>,” Business News Daily, 26 July 2012<\/p>\n

“New research has found that 64 percent of employers think less of employees who swear at work and 57 percent said they would be less likely to promote a worker who swears in the office.\u00a0A majority of bosses said that cursing at work brought an employee’s professionalism, control, maturity and intelligence\u00a0into question.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that! People are coming to realize that lacking control of one’s mouth reflects a lack of control elsewhere. “For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body<\/em>” (James 3:2).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0David Mielach, “How Swearing at Work Could Ruin Your Career,” Business News Daily, 26 July 2012 “New research has found that 64 percent of employers think less of employees who swear at work and 57 percent said they would be less likely to promote a worker who swears in the office.\u00a0A majority of bosses said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-34258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-profanity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35752,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-you-stop-saying-bad-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":34258,"position":0},"title":"How do you stop saying bad words?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Okay, I read\u00a0Careful What You Say, and I have to ask: what do we say when we can't say any of those words? 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