[Beastie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

professional what?

Dictionary.com defines “professional” as:

adj.

1.Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
2.Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
3.Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
4.Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
5.Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.
n.

1.A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
2.One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
3.A skilled practitioner; an expert.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by thebeast

Dictionary.com defines “professional” as:

adj.

1.Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
2.Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
3.Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
4.Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
5.Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.
n.

1.A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
2.One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
3.A skilled practitioner; an expert.

Yes that relates to A profession that comes with training and education but what has that to do with putting on a faux persona and using and speaking in a strange language that is not you?

being a doctor is a profession but most if not all doctors speak like they do when they are at home. Why does that not apply to a manager at a call center or at a Office supplies company or at manager level in a Supermarket?

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes that relates to A profession that comes with training and education but what has that to do with putting on a faux persona and using and speaking in a strange language that is not you?

being a doctor is a profession but most if not all doctors speak like they do when they are at home. Why does that not apply to a manager at a call center or at a Office supplies company or at manager level in a Supermarket?

You act in the way of how you react while working in your job. When you are at home of course your behaviour and that changes. You are more relaxed at home and want to put your feet up after a hard day at work. Unless you have kids and have to cook tea and all that jazz. lol

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by thebeast

You act in the way of how you react while working in your job. When you are at home of course your behaviour and that changes. You are more relaxed at home and want to put your feet up after a hard day at work. Unless you have kids and have to cook tea and all that jazz. lol

being relaxed is not what I mean. Adopting a fake office persona is what I mean.

Its like letters or emails

"I write with reference to. Your sincerely. Further to our telephone conversation. "

wtf is that?

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

being relaxed is not what I mean. Adopting a fake office persona is what I mean.

Its like letters or emails

"I write with reference to. Your sincerely. Further to our telephone conversation. "

wtf is that?

It is what you have to do in some offices. If you don't follow the job you are doing correctly then you get the sack.

The Office is an over exaggerated drama though.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

being relaxed is not what I mean. Adopting a fake office persona is what I mean.

Its like letters or emails

"I write with reference to. Your sincerely. Further to our telephone conversation. "

wtf is that?

Because it is the norm that in a workplace you follow set procedures and parlance, the terms you use for emails and letters are easily understood formulaic sentences that are considered polite yet businesslike.

It saves someone waffling for a paragraph that the reason for a particular letter is to confirm the information given in a previous telephone call for example.