Word: epithets
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...Stanford, introduced the rule in 2005 in the Harvard Business Review. He's hardly the first to reveal the disruptive damage wrought by workplace bullies, as shown by the depth of scholarly literature he cites. But something about Sutton's message hits a nerve. Maybe it's the epithet, which he defines helpfully as someone who persistently belittles and abuses those of inferior power or status. (As if we needed it spelled out.) Or maybe it's his argument that jerks exact a cost to the bottom line as they single-handedly corrode an organization's cohesion. An IT company...
...week I could watch the Interstate 65 complexes of superiority and inferiority play out on South Beach. Bears fans were the in-your-face, we're-a-real-city crowd whenever they spotted the softer, royal blue clusters of Colts backers. I even heard one Chicagoan hurl the "redneck" epithet. (Miamians, meanwhile, just got a good laugh watching pale, overweight Midwesterners trying to swagger on Ocean Drive...
Taking Aim at an Epithet...
...Good with the 'N' Word" [Dec. 11] disregarded the word's legacy of dehumanizing black people. The mere utterance triggers a mental videotape of hatred, violence and oppression. It's not just "mollycoddles" who oppose it. Employment discrimination based on race and color was pervasive. The epithet nigger was directed daily against black workers. Despite the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's successes in combating discrimination, this practice persists. The N word is so clearly poisonous that even nonblack employees file lawsuits when their co-workers or employers use the term against them. Some white employees charge hostility when blacks...
...brutally graphic bite into raw, dripping tapir testes, and I was caught somewhere between a grimace and a giggle. It was only a few minutes into Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto,” and never before had the epithet “ball-breath” been used quite so literally...