Comment by smcl

This is a great point, but it's a good idea to be cautious about anything you write in a work context - like in IMs, commit messages or emails. I've been working by the principle that I won't write out things that I would be uncomfortable being confronted with out of context - say if a newspaper got hold of some leaks, or some court case caused a company to have to turn over emails etc. This doesn't mean I don't swear or joke ever, but it means that I don't send stupid one-off throway dumb things. So "The fucking $foo-service is down again, I've no idea what caused it" is fine, but "Well $foo-service is down, hope our idiot customers don't figure it out before we fix it lol" is obviously a no-no (not least because that's not actually how I joke or talk anyway).