Research Finds Four-Letter Words Build Workplace Comraderie

I guess Cafe Pharma is onto something... Researchers at two U.K. universities have disclosed research which suggests that obscenities in the workplace build morale and teamwork. Their work has been published in the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Development. For more, read on. Too bad Monty Python couldn't have satirized this study. For my part, I say: Bull----!  At a time when teenagers and preteenagers casually refer to their girlfriends as b----es, I think we need to build up everyday communications, not all sink to the lowest common denominator, enjoying the camaraderie as we go down.  But then, that's just preachy old me. If this research is correct, then Cafe Pharma is the industry's single most valuable web site, and will remain so for some time to come. AMS