If people don’t get you, they don’t deserve you. In your career and in life in general, stay away from anyone who says “You need me. You’re nothing without me.”
Sadly, lots of fearful and insecure people play that card in their professional lives. They use the tired old script, “You need me.” They say things like this:
“If a candidate told me that he wouldn’t give up his past salary information, the interview would be over.”