Workplace etiquette: Is giving the finger ever appropriate?

[prolesunited]

Poll question: Workplace etiquette: Is giving the finger ever appropriate?

Just wondering how people felt about such a hypothetical situation.

[jpgray]

1. To coworkers? To clinets/customers?

Also depends on the work environment, the coworker, etc.

It just depends.

:P

[AZCat]

2. I thought there were...

no sex threads.

Or is this a "Gannon" thread? ;)

[miss_kitty]

3. 'hypothetical?'

[mcg]

4. Not advisable, better to be subtle about it.

In a workplace, we can be snide, insulting, contemptuous, condescending, back-stabbing, etc. as long as we do it in a subtle, "mature", and "professional" manner.

But don't raise your voice, don't cuss, and don't give the finger. Don't be overt about it. That's a no no.

But do we really want to be snide, etc.?

[steely]

5. guess I'm about to get the boot then.

One of the guys I work with is so incompetent, it drives me insane.
He's a true bs'er, and they're buyin' it.

[Blue-Jay]

6. Hey, who voted "yes"?

oh yeah...

[ornotna]

7. Depends

If you and some co-workers were just joking around. If done in anger, then no.