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English as a Second F*cking Language

Andy Nguyen

Andy Nguyen

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Get this book now if you want to work in the highly competitive, male-dominated world of Wall Street. :)
Amazon.com: English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear Effectively, Explained in Detail with Numerous Examples Taken From Everyday Life

From the book's description:
English as a Second F*cking Language (ESF*L) is the perfect way for nonnative speakers to learn the basics of swearing. At the same time, it also offers native speakers a wide variety of twists and new refinements. Page after page, ESF*L provides a smorgasbord of swearing synonyms designed to boost your vocabulary-everything from the conventional d*mn and sh*t to a host of more inventive terms that would make any truck driver blush. And when you're finished reading, our Final F*cking Exam is the perfect test of your swearing skills. You'll be surprised by how much you've learned!
 
GS is not the first to do this, another bank did so, and it was hilariously badly done, Bloomberg tried shit like this, didn't work either.

Their HR took control of this process, and next to IBM, they have the worst HR function of any major firm.
Apparently they commissioned a consultancy to find the rude words in all major languages, because they were so self important and 'global', that this was important to them, and anyway it wasn't their money.
They prevailed upon IT to censor bad emails, and they included the word 'joke' on the shit list.
The sanction was the email being deleted and never read, and no notification was sent.

The IT there was run by SHL who were really crap, and so complaints about it started to disappearing, including one from a senior director who referred to their latest screwup as a 'joke'.

Sales threw a fit.
If you're doing very high value, very low frequency sales, such as privatising Gazprom, big IPOs etc, you need to remain in touch, since you can't ring the assistant to a Russian minister every day and say "wanna sell your gas industry ? we can do it cheap"
So jokes are a standard part of the game, sales droids call this a 'excuse to call'.

The jokes all disappeared, extremely high value customers ceased to get communications...
 
The book is written tongue-in-cheek (as is to be expected). Too much swearing merely reveals a paucity of vocabulary, if not intelligence. And if one does have to resort to it, doing it with a foreign accent is likely to look incongruous and be hilarious in impact.

If memory serves, there was another such book published years upon years ago -- How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, by Lenny Bruce.
 
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