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By Justin
I have a wide variety of employment under my belt. And with that a range of things that I hear people talking about. At least for me, the more women that I work with - the worse the subject matter gets.  You'd think it'd primarily be guys that have questionable conversations. But not from my experience.

I assume it's because guys talk less in general, so it takes longer to get to those subjects. One could argue that men are harder workers by this statement. But others could say that we just don't have the ability to talk & work at the same time...

Whatever the reason, I overheard a fun conversation the other day. Now first keep in perspective where I currently work: IT headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So you'd expect the language to be clean - and it is! It's awesome working in a place like this. I'm not sure I've ever heard a questionable subject matter, or I'm just oblivious.

The conversation among 3 middle-aged men:
"Eh it's okay. Let the Grizzly eat a scout."
"Ya, we have 15 boys in our troop, we can spare a couple"
"I don't think you can do that, you're inside a national park, and aren't supposed to feed the Bears."
"There is no way that I'm going to get close enough to a bear to use bear spray. I want it to be like hornet spray - works 15 feet away, not 2! If I saw a bear, I'd throw my sandwich and run! I don't care."

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  1. Aaron and CourtneyAugust 7, 2012 at 8:04 AM

    I apologize for being a large contributing factor to the women initiated inappropriate conversation at work... I know it wasn't all my fault, but we were a crazy bunch!
    I'm really not apologizing, but I think you know that! :)

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  2. JustinAugust 7, 2012 at 9:24 AM

    Haha. When I wrote this, you (and Lindsay and April) never even came to mind. But it should've! But my ears had been abused long before coming to OB. So I was used to it by then, haha.

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