A Word About the Term A**hole
Throughout my life I have chosen not to engage in the use of profanity. It stems from my devoted faith in God and respect for others taught to me by my parents. However, in our YouTube movie series, Sid Citrus: A**hole Boss, we have purposefully adopted the term. There is no other term that properly grabs the attention and isolates the severity of the psychopathic actions of the highly toxic and abusive manager.
Although I am not completely comfortable with the use of the term in our movies and in my writings, I am even more uncomfortable with the terribly costly psychological abuse occurring every day at the hands of corporate assholes, a.k.a., jerks and bullies.
According to the Workplace Bullying Institute, prolonged exposure to workplace psychological abuse leads to debilitating anxiety, panic attacks, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), gastrointestinal diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes and even suicide. The affects of long-term psychological abuse in the workplace can set-off a tidal wave of physical and mental health conditions that can forever alter the target of the corporate a**hole’s wrath. Bottom line, the unchecked, health-harming treatment that continues with the complicit approval of company leaders is more offensive to me than the term, a**hole.
We understand there is a certain amount of resistance to the term. Realistically, when the word is used in a movie it would, at worst, provoke a PG rating.
The more important issue is not the term but our unified actions to eliminate such health-harming behavior against targets all across American workplaces.
To learn more about the high cost of these workplace deviants, read Stanford Professor Robert Sutton’s book, “The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t” and Workplace Bullying Institute Founder Dr. Gary Namie’s book, “The Bully at Work.”
Working diligently and faithfully to create a civilized workplace.
Respectfully,
Kevin Kennemer
Founder & Partner
The People Group
Certified Great Workplace
I think you’re well within your rights to use the term. Fwiw, I don’t think ‘ass hole’ is the kind of profanity that is offensive to G-d.