Science Teacher Has A Swear Jar

I was a team leader for a youth volunteer corps. We traveled around the country in a van doing service projects.

A few of my team had really foul mouths, which is whatever, people have different backgrounds growing up. But we really had to work on not swearing while we were working with other volunteers and whatnot.

So we established the van as a swearing zone. You could swear all you wanted in the van. And we established a ritual before we got out of the van to swear as much as we could for 10 seconds to get it out of our system. It worked pretty well, and it became kind of a fun thing that really built team cohesion. We'd pull up to a worksite, and Id turn off the van and say "Alright, 10 seconds. Go!" And everyone would just start swearing at the top of their lungs and then we'd stop and get out of the van and get to work.

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