“Employers sense in me a denial of their values … they fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe.”-Toole
If I were as gifted as Toole,I might have phrased my sentiments in that fashion too.
Please allow me to elaborate:
I am unmarried and do not aspire to promotions. Most of my superiors ,almost all, and even my colleagues who belong to the same age group are married and aspire to promotions.
They would never accept that so many of them could be in the wrong in such fundamental spheres, so I end up being viewed as the wrong’un. Then, persecution,inevitably and naturally,ensues.
My very existence questions what they stand for,so they would really like me to disappear for good.