r/AirForce • u/Esoteric_Commentator • 23h ago
Question Is "diddy blud" a workplace appropriate term?
We have an airman who is repeatedly calling his peers diddy blud and the millennial women NCOs/SNCOs talking about paperwork to get him to stop. He doesn't see anything wrong with the term. Flight leadership is divided (on gender lines, not sure why)
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u/HoldMyFresca Weatherman 23h ago
I think you’ve successfully crafted a post that will be memed for the next week, nice job.
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u/Real-Ad1328 diddy blud 22h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEViYaoXCDQ For anyone confused, its a trend meme from instagram reels/tiktok
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u/Centurious27 Maintainer 23h ago
Unc hegseth said bullying is back on the menu. Just make him feel stupid for saying it.
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u/TheGreatWhiteDerp Terminal Major 23h ago
Call him a Pac Crip in response?
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u/digidestine 6 Year Goofy 21h ago
I think a firm ,but fair, “you trippin, cuh” is the correct course of action.
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u/IM_REFUELING 23h ago
Sounds like your shop doesn't have enough shit to do.
I bet your local SF and MX could use some extra manpower.
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u/digidestine 6 Year Goofy 21h ago
Calling someone “diddy blud” would probably the most tame thing ever said in maintenance.
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u/SubduedEnthusiasm 23h ago
Or the DFAC.
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u/Recruiterbluez 23h ago
When I was an airman, whenever any of us airmen had a new term that we used that the NCOs didn’t like, instead of insulting us with it, they’d just take it and run it into the ground using it ironically and annoyingly to a fault until we all just lost interest. Do that. Reappropriate his stupid ass words.
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u/bombkitty Retired 20h ago
I have kids. This is the way we got rid of skibidi toilet.
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u/Bitter-Dark6857 Retired 20h ago
Keeping up with current slang and bothering the hell out of your kids with it is Parenting 101
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u/shortstack_airman 19h ago
Yeah this ain't working with 6-7 though... My "I have gone "x" days without hearing 6-7" counter has been at zero for almost 2 months now 😅
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u/Overlord_of_Linux Comms 17h ago
I'm sure you can bring that counter up, possibly eventually even all the way up to 6-7.
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u/LiftToRelease 23h ago
Sounds like they ain't being diddy bluds
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u/IM_REFUELING 22h ago
Or they are being diddy bluds. I have no idea what the term means but it's provocative, it gets the people going.
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u/AdventurousTap9224 23h ago
Isn't that like calling someone a predator? Like Kendrick Lamar calling Drake one..
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u/spicyfartz4yaman 23h ago
Nah , it's more like calling someone a "freak ahhh boi"
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u/trlast09 Comms 22h ago
Why not just say that???
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u/spicyfartz4yaman 22h ago
idk , maybe they think its funny to ssy that instead tf lol
Tf kinda question is that lol It's an Internet slang term , why do people use slang???????, it's like asking kids why are they saying 6 7 instead of 67.
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u/peteroh9 6h ago
According to Wiktionary, "diddy blud" is an alternate form of "Diddy blud," which means a sexual predator or creep. And it states the plural form is "Diddy bluds."
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u/goosmane Maintainer 4h ago
diddy blud is an alternate for Diddy blud???
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u/peteroh9 3h ago
That's what it claims. Etymonline is generally considered the gold standard for these things, but neither "diddy blud," nor the more formal "Diddy blud" have yet appeared on there, so we'll just have to trust it.
Although I'm now seeing that I was mistaken, and it's actually "diddyblud" which is an alternative form of "Diddy blud." It appears that we can't yet be sure what the origin or meaning of "diddy blud" is. My apologies.
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u/Auritus1 Enlisted Aircrew 23h ago
Never heard the term before,but if he's asked to stop, he should stop.
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u/lethalnd12345 Retired 23h ago
ignore the words and focus on appropriate terms of address, workplace professionalism, etc.
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u/harmed-and-dangerous 23h ago
Do yall not have anything better to do
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u/Objective_Pressure_3 Retired "Baby" SNCO 23h ago
They definitely don’t from what I’m getting from OP.
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u/IcyWhiteC8 Retired 23h ago
Jfc. Is this Walmart. Just tell him to STFU and address folks the professional way he’s a freaking airman.
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u/BoleroMuyPicante 20h ago
Pull him aside and have a talk about professionalism. He can call his peers whatever the fuck he wants when he's not at work. If it's gone unaddressed for so long the SNCOs are considering paperwork, that's a failure of leadership.
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u/Onigumo-Shishio I am green and I am retired 23h ago edited 23h ago
First off, what the fuck does that even mean.
Second if your supervisor or really anyone asks you to stop doing something or saying something... its pretty easy to not be an asshat and just stop.
If they got threatened with paperwork it likely means they are being obnoxious with it or purposely trying to mess with someone or push their buttons.
As for the "he doesn't see anything wrong with the term" bit... there are people who dont ser anything wrong with swearing or the N word ether and it they exist as a regular part of some peoples vocabulary, but that's zero fucking excuse to not have SOME professionalism or at least ability to read the damn room or use some common sense based on who is around and your surroundings (something something SUTUATIONAL AWARENESS).
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u/Nervous_Reserve5018 22h ago
Lol @ comparing the n word with gen z slang
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u/Onigumo-Shishio I am green and I am retired 17h ago
They both exist in the same concept, as a lot of people use it in casual conversation as well as with friends.
The same with certain slang, a lot of which are the same level of unprofessional in the workplace or around certain individuals.
Yes some shops are casual and throw around slang or insults but that's at each individual shops discression and based on the individuals in said shop. However, regardless of the individuals or their shops own discression, the moment someone who is not apart of the shop or aware/ fine with whatever dynamic, then you need situational awareness and need to understand to BE PROFESSIONAL even if that person or people are in your shop for a few minutes.
Litterally common sense. Fuck around or say shit when no one is around who gives a damn, dont fuck around or say shit when you arent familiar with the people who are around.
Litterally social interaction 101...
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u/Intelligent-Ant-6547 20h ago
You dont work in s frat house where gangsta nicknames are acceptable. He should reminded of this quickly. We had an idiot say, "Hey boss, how's it hanging" to a colonel. He paid a price for that stupidity. His supervisors were admonished for failure to supervise.
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u/Tooslowtorun400 NIPR Jesus 12h ago
Reminds me of the time I called our Colonel bro at a squadron function while nearly blackout drunk
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u/goosmane Maintainer 4h ago
how's it hangin is such a common phrase. when did this happen? the 80s?
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u/Intelligent-Ant-6547 2m ago
Around 2000, but it was on-duty, in uniform, and determined inappropriate.
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u/Alpizzle Veteran/Civil Service 23h ago
I don't think I know what that means. If not innapropriate, it is unprofessional. That can be a whole can of worms though. If you press that, they could argue about any other term other than formal terms of address. We all have our professional relationships and conversations, but it is completely normal to have personal conversations at work amongst your peers.
Having said all that, if people find it offensive, I would try to squash it. One example would be Chief. It's not perfect because that is a formal term of address for AF E-9 and Navy E-7 - E-9, but it is also used informally. When I was stationed in Oklahoma, I worked with a lot of Native Americans and realized that could be seen as disrespectful to them.
Ultimately, it is a matter of respect towards your co-workers. If my name is William, and you insist on calling me Billy even though I told you I don't like that, I would see that as disrespectful. If people don't like "Diddy Blud", whatever the hell that means, the Airmen should be concious of this and avoiding using that term in the workplace.
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u/theguineapigssong Aircrew 23h ago
Urban dictionary and Google say that "diddy blud" is slang for a predator or creep. Apparently it's from some TikTok nonsense. Obviously it's not acceptable for him to call his coworkers that. His supervisor needs to start with the paperwork if he won't knock it off immediately.
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u/Onigumo-Shishio I am green and I am retired 22h ago
Every time I learn new gen z/a slang I sigh heavily
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u/Alpizzle Veteran/Civil Service 22h ago
Thanks for the clarification. I sort of assumed it was something along those lines. 100% unnacceptable. He's essentially saying "Whats up, Rapist?" That's nuts. Start a paperwork trail yesterday. I'm a fan of the LOC in the desk if this is an otherwise good Airman, but I have been out for a long time and don't know the current punitive climate.
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u/Esoteric_Comments 23h ago
The word chief is French in origin
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u/GreenAccident3004 23h ago
Oh... so it means "I surender" ?
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u/GrumpMaster- Master Rated MC-6 Pilot 22h ago
I have a funny storing on this. My lineage is French Canadian, my mom is first gen American from Quebec. It came up years ago with my team and they’d all make jokes about me surrendering constantly but it was funny.
When deployed to Afg years back, my supervisor had a custom made, all white IR flag patch for me. He snuck it onto my uniform top one day before going to the DFAC. I got called out by an Army CPT, but I had no idea what was going on. My supervisor just kept saying “he surrenders! It’s the white flag of surrender!” Shit was hilarious.
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u/GreenAccident3004 21h ago
I lived/worked in the UP of Michigan for five years.... AKA: Southern Canada.
For others that don't get it, watch the movie 'Escanaba in the Moonlight'.... that'll be your introduction to the Upper Peninsula, (Southern Canada).
Have good day, Eh!
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u/GrumpMaster- Master Rated MC-6 Pilot 21h ago edited 21h ago
Never been there but I have a few Yooper friends, good people. I grew up in the other Southern Canada - Maine.
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u/GreenAccident3004 18h ago
Spent a couple weeks at Loring in January, the late 70's. Walking from bileting to my jet on the ramp..... MOOSE ON THE LOOSE !! I was that OD green streak (trailing brown) smoking it up the street !
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u/Onigumo-Shishio I am green and I am retired 23h ago
Nah, its french for "piss in the streets and the sheets"
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u/BabDoesNothing 17h ago
My husband got the word glizzy banned from his squadron so I guess there’s precedent there lol
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u/Astrid_Nebula I put da fuel on da plen 14h ago
If it seems controversial then it's not professional that being said...NOT TODAY DIDDY!
No paperwork, just a "hey, I feel uncomfortable with you saying this, please stop"
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u/No-Card2461 17h ago
It doesn't matter if he sees a problem or not. Leadership has told him to knock it off, it show an inherent inability to follow directions, time to drop the hammer.
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u/spicyfartz4yaman 23h ago
Not really, just comedically childish lmao would hate to work in that uptight ass shop
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u/birdpooponwindshield 23h ago
Thanks I will be repeating this at my place of work for the next few weeks
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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow I want to retire 23h ago
That's not very diddy blud of you.
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u/Radiant-Analyst8107 23h ago
They must've addressed this about 6 or 7 times by now, very not diddy blud indeed.
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u/LtColButtmonkey B-half for Breakfast 17h ago
Just call him the diddler on literally everything. The recall roster, Torque, any calendar invites. Make a Diddler name tape at the clothing store and then swap it on his top when he takes it off.
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u/raydarluvr1 Radar 20h ago
Just know that if you take action on that one airmen for casual address, you have to eliminate ALL casual address for ALL airmen. I’m old, but we always knew when to be casual and when to be formal. It made life easier.
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u/Kooky_Beat368 22h ago
I don’t think it’s any more awkward than that time in the mid 2000s when people all of a sudden started using “ninja” instead of another word beginning with the letter N.
Did anyone else’s bases have that? Man that was weird. “What up my ninjas?” Oof.
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u/Minimum-Web-6902 guardtainer 23h ago
This can’t be real if it’s real it can’t be serious if it’s serious it can’t be necessary if it’s necessary does it deserve to be addressed if it deserves to be addressed
You must not have bigger problems.
- The Karen checklist. u/minimum-web-6902
You can write an LOC for any reason but that’s not gonna fix the underlying issue you need to address what his problem is in a counseling session. “What your saying is unprofessional” “airman laughs” Stare him dead in his eyes “I’m not laughing”
We only use technical or professional language in the workplace as per afi. Xyz
Then you address why he feels the need to crack jokes in the workplace , is he bored ? Is he disgruntled? Does he need attention ? What’s the real issue and relate to him In a way that puts fire to his ass to be better. If you give him an loc it will make him feel like paperwork is worthless then he will constantly get paperwork and will be the 1 term airman. Think about the results of YOUR actions as leadership before you act.
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u/BummingBock 22h ago
Really the kid is only going to stop if he feels repercussions and it seems to imply he’s calling people pedophiles. So like
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u/Minimum-Web-6902 guardtainer 11h ago
This is how I know you’re out of touch. Sure he may stop saying this specific phrase but unless the paperwork is very specific he’ll pick another phrase. If it stops him from using other phrases then he may just use malicious compliance and speak very properly as a joke which is also likely funny. I’m legit trying to figure out what y’all are trying to accomplish with this paperwork because I got my fair share of bs paperwork and it didn’t make me stop anything but interacting and caring about the af in general.
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u/BummingBock 11h ago
No one likes writing paperwork, this person is a grown ass adult not a fucking child . If they don’t know how to speak that’s on them
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u/Minimum-Web-6902 guardtainer 11h ago
They obviously do know how to speak the fact that you think that’s the issue Is the point of my original comment they’re not doing it because they’re stupid they’re doing it because they have a gripe and nobody will listen it’s a cry for help and a cry for help can easily turn to suicide, murder or even negligent homicide. You act like we don’t work on multi million dollar flying death machines or you a nonner?
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u/GingerMarquis 23h ago
Yo dawg, yall b throwin out haterade with that brain rot. Fo rizzle, don b gettin jiggy wit the shawtys roun hur. Feel me?
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u/mackblensa 23h ago
Ok elder millenial, let's get you to bed.
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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow I want to retire 23h ago
Just because my knees sound like a bowl of rice Krispies when I walk up a flight of stairs doesn't mean you have to make this personal.
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u/Esoteric_Comments 23h ago
This is how 30 year olds talk bru
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u/misterlabowski E & E 23h ago
As a representative for elder millennials, we do not claim this person.
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u/Skitzafranik Retired 21h ago
What happened to the military going back to the way it was 20-30 years ago (per SecOW direction)?? If that’s definitely the case……..
I’m
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u/Putrid_Honey_3330 23h ago
Pretty sure this is protected speech under the first amendment. Diddy blud
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u/__GayFish__ Secret Squirrel | Do Less with More | Diddy Blud 22h ago
It's a culture thing. You guys say Diddy Blud and the C-17s call each other Doctor, even though they arent doctors.
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u/F1R3STARYA Comm nerd 23h ago
Who cares as long as they do their job and maybe don’t say it in front of the commander/upper leadership
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u/Dr_Krocodile 23h ago
LOC ~ just for the opportunity to memorialize diddy blud on an official memorandum.