Dear LFTP: the retired paper pusher and social snobbery

• What is an appropriate response to social snobbery toward a retiree who was 'just a paper pusher'?

A Dear LFTP letter from a retired man who is asked 'exactly what was it that you did at xyz corporation?' and watches people walk away when they learn he was 'just a paper pusher'; he asks for an appropriate response to this snobbery. The hosts tell him to stop attending those gatherings or just be himself, noting he undercuts himself by calling his own work unimportant — if he dismisses it, others will too. One host shares that his wife, after fifteen years as a school associate, is treated like a completely different person now that she is an administrative assistant to a principal. The letter closes into the episode's theme of consistency: the Christian life offers 'faithful in the means' — act with integrity regardless of the environment. The Secular answer advises pretending not to remember or joking 'I was the CEO' and walking away; the hosts call it terrible advice.