#Professionalism

Professional ethics is a convenient doctrine that loudly proclaims self-interest paramount while conveniently ignoring colleagues’ skills and rewards. In meetings, one chants “ethics matter,” only to fold under the divine mandates of profit and promotion in practice. Laws and regulations serve merely as reference manuals; when targets beckon, ethics leaves no room for even a shred of scruple. As a euphemism it shines center stage, yet is quietly sealed away in the name of cost cutting behind the scenes. Ultimately, professional ethics is nothing more than a sophistry to justify results.

Professionalism is the performance of self-idolatry, clad in armor of self-approval that values form over substance. It sanctifies conference rooms as holy sites and wields crisp suits and stacks of business cards as ceremonial evidence. It obsesses over appearances rather than actual outcomes and serves as a universal tool to artfully dodge responsibility. True expertise is sidelined, leaving the gloss of titles as the sole measure of worth.

Punctuality is the social ritual of blaming those who fail to arrive at the appointed moment, magically causing everyone to forget that nobody actually arrives five minutes early. The silence before the meeting room door opens applauds punctuality while secretly serving as a scale to measure the worth of others' time. Arriving too early creates awkward anticipation; being late turns into a performance of excuses. Thus, punctuality is the societal spice that blends subtle tension with guilt.