Ethics, Lazy Management, and Flawed Thinking: The Hypocrisy of the "No Emotions at Work" Dinosaurs

This is a post in my Ethics, Lazy Management, and Flawed Thinking series - see https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/11/ethics-lazy-management-and-flawed.html.

One of the things that annoys me is the utter hypocrisy of those dinosaurs who take the "no emotions at work" line ("be professional"). Those jerks are actually getting a warm fuzzy from their inhumanely cold non-display - they are just so out of touch with themselves, or have buried normal human emotions (which are a key, essential part of being human) so deeply that they don't realise it.

The argument that they are uncomfortable with emotions is not quite correct: they are uncomfortable with displayed emotions, probably because they have become so incompetent as human beings that they do not know how to cope with displayed emotions, and think everyone else should dance around the internalised warm fuzzy that they filter out into their brain pan.

I've seen such dinosaurs - from the engineering world - in social situations, including families, and my experience is that they are incompetent at normal human emotions (in other words, so damaged - so scarred) there as well that their relationships are not normal - they are not healthy.

I feel sorrow for their partners, although they've often got their own problems (emotional scars), and despair at how their children will be as adults.

There may be some such people who are capable of being normal, warm, loving adults at home and cold machines at work, but I haven't met them.

I am VERY glad that I do not work with any such dinosaurs now.