I'm in a sort of odd situation (at least from my standpoint) and I'm wondering if there is some way to either rectify or mitigate the situation.
I work in one of those offices where cubicles are rather close to each other, in sectional rows. Most of the folks here are elders in the sense that about 80% of the population here have 20-40 years invested here. I've been here about 4 1/2 months. The gentleman next to me (I'm at a back corner of a row, he's directly across from me) has quite a language problem (in terms of vulgarity) along with common use of condescending verbage. We often have people from other countries here training for outside shop work (ie. Indian, Chinese engineers for sub-shops overseas) and seeing as he's a PM, he's often got 2-3 guys/gals around him going over details or trainee's going over things with him.
Now, let me make this clear. I'm in no way offended by people dropping the F-bomb, or using disparaging slang. That said, it doesn't bother me outside of work whatsoever, and I in fact and very vulgar in my own home, around my own friends & family, when out drinking, etc. But not at work, not around so many people in such a public/profession place.
But this guy, literally, will sometimes just go on and on, "F" this and "F" that, those "F'in <insert derogatory term>" and so on and so forth. And it's not isolated in the least, he will do this when anyone is around. The other day, he had a Indian trainee (who's english was...meh) and he went as far as to try to explain to this guy what he meant when he was slamming his mouse on his desk and calling his PC "f'in gay" because it wouldn't send his email.
Now, I get to the point during the day where I just put my headphones on and blast my iPod to avoid his discussions/rants/etc. I'm not offended, but I'm quite put off at his lack of professionalism and constant use of such phrases and terms. My wife will call sometimes and she'll be like "WTF is that in the backround?!" and I don't know what to say. I don't really want to bring it up to anyone, but I wouldn't mind getting my cubicle moved if I could. There's a fairly dense hierarchy here in terms of management, so I wouldn't even know where would be the best place to start without starting a fuss about "who said what" and all that jazz. Anyone ever been confronted with something like this? Where you weren't offended, but more annoyed? I'm almost worried the guys gonna snap one of these days and I'm going to be the closest person to him...
Edited, Apr 27th 2009 2:18pm by Ryneguy