The thing that gets me about "being professional" is that people wearing nice suits and using carefully abstract civilized language have absolutely 100% done more heinously fucked up bullshit than anyone else on earth combined.
The least professional ed gein motherfucker out there wearing a dirty shirt made out of human skin, has killed far fewer people than any well-dressed politician or CEO, with far less abject cruelty.
"Being professional" = being inauthentic for so long that the authentic you disappears and now you're free from any personal consequences for your actions because there is no authentic 'you' left to accept responsiblity
Reading about the cane sugar boom and the created demand in Europe that brought untold death and millions to slavery in the Caribbean. All by "civilized" leaders and business people.