Absurd professional

In her column last week, Amanda Gutterman asks us to put on a "professional face" and think about what it means:

Specifically, we move from normal life to carefully monitoring every aspect of our behavior, anticipating how those who might remunerate us would perceive it...The object is strict self-control. Even when we are personally called upon to express an opinion in a traditionally professional setting, it requires emotional suppression and enforces neutrality.

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