[ngngngng]

"Fuck" and "badass" are relatively common in job postings in Utah. I assume it's because people from out of state are worried they'll join a company with a bunch of stiff Mormons so we need a signal to let them know that's not the case. Benefit #1 on the list is beer on Fridays.

Anyway, that's what scares me about this, I like language naturally evolving like it is in the above example, to address a specific communication need. I'm really not a fan of some remarkably privileged people using an insanely powerful company to coerce my language in whatever direction they see fit.

[seattle_spring]

Relatively common? Can you share links to 2 examples?

[ngngngng]

Yes but I’ll let you google search “Utah job postings badass” yourself

[CrispinS]

When I Google it, the first result is... your post, and none of the other results include the word.

Adding quotes to "badass" turns up (on the first page) a mechanics job posted in January, four hits for the same CNA job from over a month ago, and one hit for an administrative job, posted this month.

That doesn't seem like a lot of postings, certainly not enough to be considered an outlier.

Of course to verify that I'd have to do fifty Google searches and chart the data, which I don't really want to do...

I think you should, though, so next time you make such a dubious claim, you have the data to back it up. :)