Apparently one of my co-workers is annoyed that I asked him to stop using a word in casual conversation, and is taking it to our managers because I said, "Can you please not use that word at work anymore?"

Considering the word and the people who tend to use it and their attitudes, the irony is so thick you can't cut it with a chainsaw.

I just wanted him to stop describing pretty much everyone he disagreed with as a "cuck". Is that so wrong?

...how is that a business-required word

how is

god your work place is so questoinable sometimes

it's trying to hold on to that "hey, we're a startup, we need to be transgressive!!" vibe, at the cost, sometimes, of being rude as hell.

And it's not business-required, it's me stepping on his right to express himself. See, this support thing, for him, is just a way to have money. He's really an artiste. He uses our big printers to make his sculptures. All the time.

so to him, his right to express himself is the most important.

I really really hate that word. I hate the attitudes that that word hangs off of, and the sheer arrogance of it all. I consider anybody using that word, even if they're just stupid kids using it because they think it's edgy and don't know the meaning to be, frankly, enemies.

He asked what my problem was with it, and I told him "It manages to be incredibly racist AND incredibly sexist AND incredibly classist AND abusive all in one word."

As well as sounding very sub-cultural and pretentious.

It's nearly jargon.

yeah, anyone who uses 'cuck' is not a person worth knowing

agreed

unforunately, you can't pick your co-workers.

I mean, I could, but people would wonder why I brought in the pick.

grins savagely

“Lemme guess... big Catcher in the Rye fan are ya?”