Why do so many people think "acting professionally" is about cursing and clothing? Is the concept of treating people with respect so weird?
@xwjl There is a mainstream narrative of professionalism that is precisely about those things. I'd say if you mean respect, say respect.
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@chaosprime it's surprising the set of people who seem to be interested in perpetuating this narrative.. -
@xwjl What Linus hears is "I want to take away your status markers and replace them with mine". His status marker is he gets to be a dick.
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@xwjl My personal, direct experience of "professionalism" is that it means whatever the speaker wants it to mean to control my behavior. -
@xwjl If speaker needs my ass in a chair at a specific time of morning to keep up his hierarchical image, then "professionalism" means that. -
@xwjl This sort of sloppiness leads to lack of respect for the concept.
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@chaosprime@xwjl the weird thing about the Linus debacle is that *she* asked him for respect, he went to "i refuse to act professional". -
@wirehead2501 Oh, interesting! So respect is already mapped to professionalism which is mapped to identity loss. Pretty brutal trap there. -
@chaosprime exactly! this has got to be some kind of geek fallacy, that social niceties are BS among rational folk. -
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@wirehead2501@chaosprime "rational folk" barf gag -
@chrisamaphone Because identifying as "rational" is most typically an excuse not to examine how one's decisions are emotionally driven? -
@chaosprime@chrisamaphone@wirehead2501 also, if your reasons are “rational” and people disagree, they’re inherently “irrational” and wrong -
@XaiaX Yes. And having drawn a line between A and B using the most sketchy-ass logic makes it all "rational".@chrisamaphone@wirehead2501
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