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Goldman Sachs to traders: No more swearing

Those of us who don't work there can still swear at Goldman Sachs, of course ... but those who are in the company's employ must clean up their language, at least when sending e-mail, instant messages and tweets.

From a story in The Wall Street Journal:

The New York company is telling employees that they will no longer be able to get away with profanity in electronic messages. That means all 34,000 traders, investment bankers and other Goldman employees must restrain themselves from using a vast vocabulary of oft-used dirty words on Wall Street, including the six-letter expletive that came back to haunt the company at a Senate hearing in April.
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