I Hate The Elite Concept of Professionalism

It’s an idea meant to defend class and stratification

Ryan Fan
Index
Published in
4 min readAug 5, 2021

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The idea of professionalism is bullshit. As a teacher, people often call me a very professional employee. I show up to work every day and on time. I dress well to work. I get all my reports and deliverables in on time. I do my job and do it, in every sense of the word, professionally.

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Index
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