I just want to be left alone, without doing the corporate dances. I don’t care about your company, your culture, and your unique DNA. The only family I have is back home, so just let me do my work for 8-9 hours a day, and leave me alone.
I don't want my coworkers to "leave me alone", I want to participate in their society and mutually define what that means.
As adults, it's our opportunity—and obligation—to selectively reproduce civilization. I'm lucky to be able to do that with clever, earnest, and kind people.
I don't want to be treated like a cog in your paycheck mill.