System Programmer Gets Written-Up For Using Words His Boss Doesn't Understand

When u/clrlmiller took a stand against his idiot boss she looked for every excuse to take offense to anything that she possibly could. 

She was clearly grasping at straws as she decided that her best play was to accuse u/clrlmiller of "obscene" language over their use of the word "impetus". 

Really, she had just confused impetus with impotent, neither of which is inherently sexual or obscene. Clearly, this bad boss needs to work on her vocabulary. 

For more tech stories check out this tech support guy who had to tell a customer that his computer being literally on fire was not a feature. 

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