The present study aims to investigate the issue of (in)civility in the workplace through the analysis of accounts used in the speech of professionals from different business organizations. The corpus consisted of individual semistructured interviews conducted with five MBA students from IAG (PUC-Rio) whose professional experiences differ in terms of working time, area of activity and the type of organization in which they work or have worked. In light of the theory on accounts (Arribas-Ayllon, Sarangi AND Clarke, 2011; Buttny AND Morris, 2001; Matikalo, 2003; Raevare, 2010), this study examined the way interviewees (re)construct the meaning(s) of (in)civility by using accounts related to the its manifestations, its importance and the factors that encourage or discourage it in the workplace. The results indicate not only the interviewees’ difficulty in circumscribing the meaning of (in)civility, but also reveal their belief that some civility-related rules may be disregarded in certain professional contexts.