Embiggen

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

(unless you are an historian of the Anglican Church)

Cuck

‘ask’ as a noun.

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Any slang + curse words

Moose knuckles

What if you work in slaughterhouse?

bukkake

For context, I like working with people that I am on friendly terms (like go out for drinks Friday after work) and I have the privilege to be able to avoid work environments where that’s not possible.

IMO I don’t think it’s about the words, but the meaning of what you say. You can say a coffee is hot, but say that about the new receptionist and you deserve jail time (sexual harassment is a serious issue). The worst things someone could say don’t involve any “bad” words, like a male colleague turning to the only woman in the meeting after making a remark about motherhood.

Context is always important too, once I heard someone say “the motherfucker keeps pooping allover the place” referring to a service that was particularly nasty after an update (programmer lingo).

Personally, I hate passive aggression, I am autistic I just speak my mind, and I don’t understand it when others don’t.

One would think that “hot strippers” is not acceptable in any technical professional environment. Except there are mechanical devices that strip optical fiber from the jacket/coating. The devices are called strippers. Some of those devices are heating up the coating before removing for the easiness of stripping. Those are hot strippers. And of course, MS Outlook blocks e-mails that have these words.

I recall hearing that one should never use a three letter word starting with ‘g’ and ending with ‘t’ (i.e. get, git, got, gut). Instead: obtain, stomach, ‘being unhelpful’ etc.

This was before github was a thing, of course.

Software has more than its fair share of acronyms, which we often choose to say phonetically, like SQL gets said “sequel.” We also have the TTY, and you often have to detach things from it. Depending on the context, best to spell that one out, or just substitute “terminal,” but I’ve definitely been in meetings where someone said something about a process that needs to be detached from the titty.

Thingy