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'passionate' in this context means 'able to get to work on time is a reasonably presentable state'. It means nothing more.

Maybe a bit more: it probably also means interested in the work one is doing and find some enjoyment from doing it.

That depends.

"Passionate about programming" I could probably fit myself into at a stretch.

Passionate about fixing dub users excel errors (depsite telling them a million times we shouldn't be using Excel for importing data), definetely not.

My job is a mix of both.