G-RHBC2Z7L91 Are You Too Serious? A Hilarious Debate on Professionalism & Workplace Anxiety - Today's Topic

Episode 24

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27th Oct 2025

On Being A Seriously Professional Robot While Having a Good Time

In this episode, we talk about getting serious about... well, being serious. Is being serious is simply the absence of emotion and how it differs from being "professional?" We explore the persona of the overly serious individual, who is the one describes a joke as "quite humorous" rather than simply laughing. Does extreme seriousness is often a mask for incompetence or intense social anxiety? Is seriousness a way to just "get through the meeting" without revealing a lack of knowledge? The discussion touches on modern slang like being "locked in". We start with a simple topic but seriously spiral into some funny and surprisingly insightful looks at human behavior.

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