Being Personal Isn't Professional: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Ebisu from ''[[Ebisu-san and Hotei-san]]'' is like this as she tells Hotei that she doesn't have time for personal conversations at work because Ebisu's firmly committed to not putting in any overtime.

 

== Literature ==

 

== Live Action Television ==

* Michael Weston of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' can be like this.

* Dr. Clark Edison on ''[[Bones]]''. He '''really''' doesn't want to be involved in anybody's personal life and is less than pleased with all the interpersonal non-business talk.

** Until he opened up. His new problem? ''Over''sharing.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

 

== Video Games ==

* Nel from ''[[Star Ocean Till the End of Time]]''. She goes on and on like a broken record about her mission. But the second part of this is true too, as when Tynaeve and her other friend are kidnapped, she sneaks off in the night to save them.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Recess]]'' Ms. Finister turns out to be an old friend of Spinelli's parents. She turns out to be quite cool in the end despite her [[Stern Teacher|Stern]] to [[Sadist Teacher]] tendencies.

* The [[Looney Tunes]] with Ralph the Wolf and Sam the Sheepdog who are friendly to each other before and after the work whistle blows and eat lunch together but are enemies during "working hours."

* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] [[Played for Laughs|for humor]] in one episode of ''[[King of the Hill]],'' where Enrique wants to meet Hank after work to get some personal help with some marriage problems he's having. He seems to assume that Hank is less stoic and impersonal after hours. He's really not, but Enrique interprets his actions that way anyway.