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Employee using in-appropriate word in daily conversations with his colleagues

Shweta Thorat

I am HR Manager of a small organisation (500 employees globally and approximately 100 in UK/EMEA). We are IT cloud-based organisation and one of our employees in Marketing constantly uses 'F*ck' word. Its putting me at discomfort as that employee sits quite near to me. Can I stop that employee to use that word? Please, can anyone out there help me? Thanks a bunch in advance. 

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  • Hi Shweta,

    This is one of those situations where being the target gets in the way of objective thought.

    If another employee came to you with this concern you would have no hesitation in asking the offending employee to tone it down - after all the company has an obligation to provide a working environment that is not hostile and the language being used can still be reasonably considered 'hostile' even if it's use is increasing.

    Can you raise this with the employee's manager and ask them to deal with it? You don't have to reveal that it is you that is raising the complaint. You could simply say that a complaint has been raised.

    If you don't get any joy with that approach could your manager support you?

    If this person know their language was causing offence they may be horrified and stop using it - or at least pull themselves up and apologise when they do.

    If it really is intolerable and the informal approach fails you could consider raising a grievance which would force the issue due to the obligation to provide a working environment that is not hostile, etc.

    I wish you luck

    Debi
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  • Hi Shweta,

    This is one of those situations where being the target gets in the way of objective thought.

    If another employee came to you with this concern you would have no hesitation in asking the offending employee to tone it down - after all the company has an obligation to provide a working environment that is not hostile and the language being used can still be reasonably considered 'hostile' even if it's use is increasing.

    Can you raise this with the employee's manager and ask them to deal with it? You don't have to reveal that it is you that is raising the complaint. You could simply say that a complaint has been raised.

    If you don't get any joy with that approach could your manager support you?

    If this person know their language was causing offence they may be horrified and stop using it - or at least pull themselves up and apologise when they do.

    If it really is intolerable and the informal approach fails you could consider raising a grievance which would force the issue due to the obligation to provide a working environment that is not hostile, etc.

    I wish you luck

    Debi
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