You don't hire autistic people so you can tell them what to do. You hire autistic people so they can tell you, wild-eyed and exhausted, what they found down the rabbit hole they stumbled down in the course of their normal work
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I've been in that situation more times than I can recall, in factory manufacturing settings. It rarely ended with a long lasting positive change. That's my experience and perspective only. I'm done being that type of worker for corporations.
Yeah don't get me wrong, I get told I'm wrong more often than anything else happens. I have been lucky enough to see change happen but it was painfully slow and took a toll on my career
Would love to work somewhere like this! I tried to explain to management what they could do next time to avoid the issues they had, and was met with increasingly irate insistence that it went fine last time, and was *supposed* to be months late. 🤷🏻♀️ I’m trying to learn not to care, for my sanity.
This has been my experience at my current job. Have to try very hard to just not care because management just doesn’t want to change despite our current systems actively breaking down and failing 🙃
This was my very 1st job working at Hastings Entertainment before they went under. I was surrounded by all things storytelling: movies, music, books, comics & games! Since then, every job I've had has been draining and defeating.
It's a tricky thing to present to others AND many environments don't appreciate it at all. If you ever have an opportunity to do some formal change management or project management training, it helps with this type of thing.
Exactly. I was once offered a job where the Managing Director told me “I don’t want you for a specific job, I just want you in all our meetings. Listen, research if you need to, and then tell folks what they’re doing wrong.”
When I worked for GE at a turbine plant, I rearranged a whole assembly process in a way that cost no money and saved an average of 50 man-hours on a build. This happened because one day I got really mad about a work stoppage that my method solved.
My company had to write HR policy after HR policy for me. I just kept asking questions about the unwritten rules so they had to write them down. Nothing unreasonable or inappropriate on my part.
We're very useful in corporate world but not the way they want.
I managed to recruit a team mostly comprised of autistic developers and they were, by far, the reason my company was successful. On occasion I had to request they do the work given to them but for the most part they did everything and managed to solve problems that we didn’t yet know existed
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THAT is an AuDHD role if ever I heard one.
We're very useful in corporate world but not the way they want.