You should see what happened to me when I tried to send an email on my company PC to someone and refer to the wire connection box on a motor using a very common vernacular term over here; "Peckerhead". I got a call from our HR department and was told to not use that term because it was considered "vulgar" and "sexually charged" language. They suggested that I re-take my "Employee anti-harassment" on-line webinar course again. I tried to explain to them that this was not a sexually charged term, but I could not for the life of me find any definitive reference as to where it stems from, which leads me to fear that it may indeed be what it conjures up in the mind. Since I could not find that definition, it was easier to just run the webinar course again. I always refer to it as the "motor wiring enclosure" now... I'm leery of even using the word "box", because I already have this on my "permanent record" with HR.
