There is a different standard for language that would be considered vulgar or profane. I think there is a difference in language being used by today s society. And business is not different from other environments. I believe it occurs across the board in different degrees. Furthermore, what may be a word considered vulgar by one person may not be considered vulgar by another.
Today there is a great deal of information being pushed upon society through a variety of media.
There are things reported in news, radio, movies and television. If you take a conversation from the movies into the workplace, suddenly it becomes a potentially offensive statement by an individual in the workplace. Several had language of this sort. In the Marine Corps and in a foundry where I worked, some of these words that many now consider vulgar were considered normal because they didn t have another word handy to use. These people were male so there is a gender issue.