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Foul-mouthing boss not grounds for firing

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

If son of a b***h is a bad term in arguments in Spain worthy of potential firing I sure hope none of them bosses work in the US as we have much better explicatives LOL

MADRID (AP) — A court in Barcelona says insulting your boss with one particularly foul obscenity is not grounds for dismissal, insisting the slight is common in arguments in Spain and not that big a deal.

The zinger in question translates as “son of a b—-,” and was used by a worker against his boss during a January 2008 money dispute in the northeastern city of Gerona. The worker, who also called his boss “crazy,” was promptly fired.

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