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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Graham Snowdon

How can I get my boss to tone down his bad language?

Boss Shouting at Staff
How can I get my boss to stop swearing? Photograph: Tim Garcha/Corbis

Work ethics is a fortnightly feature in Guardian Work where a reader submits a workplace dilemma and asks for your help. A selection of the best answers will appear in Saturday's paper. (And if you have a dilemma you'd like to share, anonymously, with our readers, please email us.)

This week's question

My boss is like Gordon Ramsay – not, sadly, due to his cooking skills, but for his bad language, which is blue bordering on farmyard. Occasional swearing would be fine, but I find his language beyond the pale. I want to ask him to tone it down but fear ridicule as some colleagues actually seem to enjoy it. How should I approach this?

What are your thoughts?

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