Professionalism meaning anything other than honesty or not going out of your way to be rude is just performative ball fluffing. The absence of casualness is just a way to communicate to your superiors that their whims are soooper seeerius and impooorrrtant, and that they shouldn’t be questioned or challenged in any way that doesn’t give them an easy out that makes them feel like they’re in the driver’s seat.

For most of us, there’s no point in pretending we aren’t all a bunch of oversized chimpanzee children playing make believe. Just because some asshole has money and is playing in a big office upstairs doesn’t mean it isn’t just some bullshit game.