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 {{a|work|}}The [[professional-managerial class]] is a social class within the [[Stakeholder capitalism|capitalist]] machine that, by controlling and overseeing production through superior management skills, is neither proletarian nor bourgeois, but squarely [[middle management]].
-Narrowly, it encompasses those whose title includes the word “chief” — a [[chief executive officer]], [[chief financial officer]] [[chief operating officer]], [[chief legal officer]], [[chief risk officer]], [[chief technology officer]], chief marketing officer — and there are, and will in the future be, many more.<ref>What is it with all this “chief” crap, anyway? What is this? Borneo?</ref> More widely, anyone with a masters of business administration, and more widely than that, anyone who spends their whole day on her chuff attending conference calls, answering emails, and preparing PowerPoint decks and excel spreadsheets. The most soul-destroying of the professional-managerial class are those not actually in a profession, as traditionally understood: so, to take an example at random, human resources executives. When I say, “soul-destroying”, I don’t necessarily mean ''their'' souls: it is more likely to be ''yours''.
+Narrowly, it encompasses those whose title includes the word “chief” — a [[chief executive officer]], [[chief financial officer]] [[chief operating officer]], [[chief legal officer]], [[chief risk officer]], [[chief technology officer]], chief marketing officer — and there are, and will in the future be, many more.<ref>What is it with all this “chief” crap, anyway? What is this? Borneo?</ref>
-One of the joyless minions of multinationalism. If you are reading this, you have either browsed here totally by accident whilst looking for porn — if so, [[Toto]], you are a hell of a long way from Kansas —  or you are part of the professional-managerial class. For your sake, we hope it’s the porn.
+More widely, it captures anyone with a [[Master of Business Administration|masters of business administration]], and more widely than that, anyone who spends her whole day on her chuff attending [[all-hands conference call]]s, engaging in hand-to-hand combat over [[email]], preparing Excel spreadsheets for [[opco]]s and [[PowerPoint]] decks for [[steerco]]s.
+The most soul-destroying of the professional-managerial class are those who do not belong to any profession, as that word is traditionally understood: so, to take an example at random, a [[human resources]] executive. When I say, “soul-destroying”, I don’t necessarily mean ''his'' soul will be the one destroyed: it is far more likely to be ''yours''.
+So, broadly, one of the joyless minions of multinationalism. If you are reading this, you have either browsed here by accident whilst looking for porn — if so, [[Toto]], you are a hell of a long way from Kansas — or you are part of the professional-managerial class.
+For your sake, we hope it’s the porn.
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