Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumA co-worker chastised me for saying "Fuck" today. Because it's Good fucking Friday
I'm an RN, and I work at a medical clinic for medicare patients. Today was a pretty chill day, not a lot of patients, and I was at my desk doing some administrative spread-sheety stuff and was listening to the ipod when a new hire Nurse Practitioner came in to my office. I think today rounds out her 2nd week there.
She's nice, and we chat it up often. I don't know much about her, which is fine, because I really don't care. That may be rude, but it's the truth. Kids or no kids? Don't care. Married or not? who gives a shit. I have work to do, you're kind of bothering me but we all need a distraction so please, go on telling me about walking through this scary neighborhood as you try to find the train station (which is right where I told you it was yesterday but you obviously didn't fucking listen).
So she says something and I responded and used the word "Fuck."
I want to preface by noting that cursing is not verbotten in my office. The MD's do it, the patient's do it, the RN's do it. Big deal. We all swear like sailors.
So she says something and I responded and used the word "Fuck."
Her: (kind of smiling and giving me a silly slap on the arm)"HEATHER! Watch your mouth!"
Me: seriously?
Her: It's GOOD FRIDAY, for crying out loud. Please, no cursing today
Me: :silently staring at her with a slack-jawed, vapid look of "seriously?":
Her: Do you have any idea what today means to millions of Catholics and Protestants around the world?
Me: :silently staring at her with a slack-jawed, vapid look of "seriously?":
Her: This is a very holy days. One of the holiest. Language like that....I'm sorry, but today is not the day for that
Me: Your'e being serious, aren't you?
Her: I'm being very serious. This is a very holy day for many people. I just don't think a word like that should be used on today of all days.
Me: Ya know, I'm really fuckin' busy with this fuckin' spreadsheet, and anyone who finds this to be the holiest fuckin' day of the year prolly shoulda taken the day off so they can sit at their fucking house and not have to deal with foul mouth fucks like me, right?
At that point I turn away and keep spreadsheeting away.
Holiest day? Go fuck yourself, newbie. Pray all you want, do whatever the fuck makes you happy. Leave me the fuck out of it and if you want me to not curse around you...super. I'll try my best not to. No promises. But when you don't want me to curse around you because this is a holy fucking day for you---well, dearie, you can go fuck right the fuck out of my fucking office.
My other coworker, that I share an office with, was absolutely dying. Rolling on the floor, tears streaming, tinkling herself. "Oh Heather, you have such a way with words."
I said 'So when it's Talk Like A Pirate Day, do I get to go sit in her office and be a complete shit to her and yell at her if she doesn't speak like a pirate around me? THat's very important to me, you know. So important, I think I'll condescendingly remind her of it on Pirate Day..."
what a fucking idiot.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Feel free to share that with them....
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)I am right there with you.
She had a lot of nerve.
I hope she learned her lesson...
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I hope she learned her lesson not to bother me with bullshit on a friday afternoon when I got shit to do so I can leave early
LostOne4Ever
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Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Jeff Murdoch
(168 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)Nurses have the worst fucking potty mouths out there. I have antidotes for Miss Prunella: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/how-sweary-are-you (I got 57/70)
and.....
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 19, 2014, 08:56 AM - Edit history (1)
She can take her sensitive ass back to where ever she came from.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)the alert patrol will be along shortly to alert on your thread FYI
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)I almost typed something else, but when it auto-corrected I figured screw it
Rob H.
(5,351 posts)on the day that commemorates the torture, crucifixion and death of another human being, a death which took six hours? She should be more appalled by the obscenity of that barbaric death than a simple word like "fuck."
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)by working, instead of staying home and prayerfully contemplating her savior's sacrifice?
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I was more worried about getting my work done and getting out of there early, which I did and which I did.
Rob H.
(5,351 posts)I read that as "her savior's orifice" and thought, "Wow, religion really does evolve after all."
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)at work today....one who is offended by the word "fuck" any day. She didn't say a word, but she did what she always does---she flinched. But this one knows me too well to have brought up the "holy day". I had already laughed at someone who told me to have a nice holiday----what holiday? I had to work today, have to work Monday, so it is just another Sunday. I suppose that I should be grateful to the Christians for Sunday.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,369 posts)deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)so she ought to be perfectly amenable to talking like a pirate on the holiest of days for Pastafarians. If you look at a graph of pirates vs. global warming, it's clear that the demise of pirates caused global warming. It is the word of the starchy Lord. It is known. Ramen.
CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)At least you didn't say that!
My grandmother was like this with my grandfather on Sundays. I've never understood the idea that it's ok to swear on some days but not others.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)So, see, it makes perfect sense.
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... what's "fuck" in Aramaic?
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)..."Amen"
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Maybe "Hosanna" or "Alleluia" 'cause, what the hell do they mean?
rexcat
(3,622 posts)I work remote and have a home office. My pets don't care if I swear on any given day. When I am at my clinical sites I don't swear but many a Study Coordinator, usually an RN, will let the "F" bomb fly!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Sanctimonious, preachy shits are vile
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Fuckity Fuck Fuck.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)onager
(9,356 posts)A woman and her little girl were stuck in a typical Los Angeles traffic jam.
Little girl asked: "Mommy, where are all the bastards?"
The woman wrote that she almost jumped all over the kid. Until she remembered where the kid no doubt heard it.
So Mom just said: "They only come out when your Dad's driving."
I have to say that Heddi is a first-class cusser. She amazes me sometimes, and I did a tour as a Marine Corps drill instructor. Where "fuck" was often used as all 8 parts of speech, plus. She's awesome.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I had a patient a few years ago. Was flown into my hospital because of our world-renowned Dr's and associated university medical school. He had some kind of brain fever/meningitis/encephalitis....he was in the ER (that's where all new transfers go) waiting for an admission bed, and this guy in his prior life was either a preacher or just really really not the type of person who would curse. He was 60-70 and his poor wife was just beside herself with embarrassment from the pure filth that was flowing from this guy's mouth. It was all infection and fever and swelling related. Something was going on in his brain> He was from Alaska but it was like something someone in the jungle would get, you know, when a wormy thing laid eggs in the ear or something.....
She was horrified every time he said something because it was more rude and more vulgar than the last thing he said.
Us RN's were like "oh, that's a good one!"
So Ed was this RN dude I worked with. Late 50's, been an RN forever, and totally unflappable. I've seen someone vomit bloody pill fragments all over him and he's like "well, guess I'll have to wash this when I get home..." and doesn't even give a shit.
So anyways, this poor patient is just out of his mind with brain fever.
He calls out to Ed "Hey, you, get over here you stupid nigger!" and Ed says "Hey! You can't call me that. We don't use that language here. Besides...I'm a white guy!!" The patient says "Oh...oh my. Oh wow. I'm real sorry about that, motherfucker" ha ha. We were DYING. Just fucking dying. It was awesome. Especially Ed's deadpan way of dealing with it. The dude's wife was turning green and about to vomit.
So later on I'm walking in the bay and I go by the patient's little....curtained section in this big room of like 10 beds, and he yells out "HEy...Hey you! Get over here, you rusty cuntbucket!!!" I fucking DIED. oh my god I about peed myself I was laughing so hard. Thankfully the rest of the beds were empty. I was just like WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN and how can I incorporate that into my repertoire of filth?
onager
(9,356 posts)From back in the Deep South. The nurse is a good friend and married to one of my oldest friends. Though she's a native like me, this woman has never tolerated any of the good old traditional Southern bigotry.
So anyway, she's checking this old guy's wife into the hospital and says: "Your wife's doctor is Dr. Patel. He's very good...
"WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR IS HE?"
"He's a gastroentologist. That's what she nee..."
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!"
"I know what you meant. Sounds like you're trying to interfere with your wife's treatment, which we don't allow here. Keep it up and you can wait for your wife outside the hospital. She shouldn't be here more than 2 or 3 days."
That did the trick and the old coot didn't mention the doctor again.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)You Can't Control a Wild Flower