Loren Greiff had just closed a big executive placement, the kind of deal a recruiter celebrates. In her email to the hiring manager she let one cheerful word slip: “yippee.” A few minutes later, there was a knock on her office door.

It was her boss. Greiff, in her telling on the Bossed Up podcast, assumed she was about to be congratulated. “I’m like, wow, I’m the bee’s knees,” she recalled. Instead, her boss told her she was being placed on a performance improvement plan. The reason: that kind of language was unprofessional, and “we don’t do that around here.”

Greiff was 54, working at a prestigious executive recruiting firm, and genuinely baffled. She wondered, briefly, whether she’d somehow dropped an F-bomb without noticing. She hadn’t. The offense was “yippee.” That was Friday. By 10 a.m. Monday she had done something she says she’d never done in her........

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