Millennials like cursing in the workplace.
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Young people apparently think cursing at work is effing cool. About two-thirds of millennial employees swear at work, according to a new survey of 1,500 American workers, and more than 40 percent said they prefer working in an environment where colleagues swear. About a third of millennials said cursing can even help strengthen a team, Bloomberg reports. To be fair, 58 percent of Gen Xers and Baby Boomers also admitted to dropping the occasional F-bomb while on the clock, but they were much more likely to report feeling guilty about "the taboo against bad language."

Another noteworthy finding from the study: Millennial women were the most likely demographic to let bad words slip (75 percent admitted to swearing in the workplace), and they were less bothered by foul mouths in the office than millennial men were.

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