It seems a bit of a cryptic message if it's aimed at Campbell.
More likely it's just a wonderful little narrative about an office worker at the end of his tether. He's retiring (hence being given the wholly unoriginal gift of a carriage clock) and that might be what tips him over the edge. Feeling undervalued, having given his whole life to his job, he launches into a tirade directed at his boss. She has been exploiting her staff, shirking from duty herself and offering little other than abuse at her staff. He ends by saying he'd rather not have his colleagues sympathy, they should leave before they become as cynical as he is.
Murdoch paints such a vivid picture of the quiet man's big moment, it's incredibly moving.
It seems a bit of a cryptic message if it's aimed at Campbell.
More likely it's just a wonderful little narrative about an office worker at the end of his tether. He's retiring (hence being given the wholly unoriginal gift of a carriage clock) and that might be what tips him over the edge. Feeling undervalued, having given his whole life to his job, he launches into a tirade directed at his boss. She has been exploiting her staff, shirking from duty herself and offering little other than abuse at her staff. He ends by saying he'd rather not have his colleagues sympathy, they should leave before they become as cynical as he is.
Murdoch paints such a vivid picture of the quiet man's big moment, it's incredibly moving.