Having worked for twenty years as a dock foreman and manager of a small delivery and a large union trucking company I am no stranger to the generous use of profanity. Those were the days when an “F” word was spelled out and enunciated in full; the days before political correctness ruled the land.
But the word spelled out is now F***, %$*&, or F**k if you are really bold. It is also spoken as frigging. fricken’ or just plain F as in WTF.
Thankfully there are still books in states where censorship does not thrive and cable and streaming stations where actual, real-life scenarios are depicted. Although it has been over 30 years since I set foot on a loading dock I can’t imagine its language has changed. But HR Departments have stepped up their game so perhaps a modern day dock foreman may sound more like this:
“You effing’ lazy mother-fathers better get off your blankety-blank you-know-whats before I perform a rectal insertion of my lower appendage!”