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Square pegs?

In other words, very little night life, and, as a matter of fact, not many social activities of any kind day or night.

Anyhow, you get the picture of people who feel they’re square pegs – they don’t fit in. Sometimes perhaps it’s their fault, sometimes it’s not. And it’s not always easy to tell. At any rate, we’re not trying to be critical of anyone. I just want you to know that for better or worse, square pegs don’t fit in with their group.

And here are examples of square pegs, and they are, perhaps not surprisingly, aplenty in society:

1. A SECRETARY sacked by the BBC after refusing to sign an eight-hour-day contract was a ‘square peg in a round hole’, an industrial tribunal was told yesterday.

Stella Stillianova, 40, of Sloane Gardens, Chelsea, claims she was dismissed unfairly from her pounds 12,000-a-year job after working long hours to try to be successful - not finishing till 7.30am on one occasion.

Rosalind Grant, a personnel officer, said when Ms Stillianova was transferred to work temporarily as a film clerk she had a bad annual report from her immediate superior. ‘We felt that the faults were remediable. We accepted there were faults. We felt Stella was perhaps a square peg in a round hole. But we felt we could rescue the situation.’

Asked why Miss Stillianova was not moved to another department because of a personality clash with her boss, Miss Grant replied: ‘Any employer in a different department will just ask why he or she should take this person on.’