AaronMar 25, 2024

Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:

* Comfortable with ambiguity
* Strong people skills
* Good culture fit
* Multitasking
* A fast-paced dynamic environment
* Bachelor's degree or better

I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.

#ActuallyAutistic
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@neurodivergence

Show threadGusMar 26, 2024
@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence Neurotypicals struggle with ambiguity. "Comfortable with ambiguity" actually means "dealing with your absence of self-consistency by means of cognitive dissonance". Neither they excel at multitasking... unless that means to address multiple things poorly and at a very shallow level.
Show threadArtemis
@caocancio @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence
"Comfortable with ambiguity" also seems to mean "willing to guess what you're supposed to be doing with incomplete information and just find out later on down the line whether your assumptions were correct rather than being annoying and asking for clarity about the task."
Mar 26, 2024 at 12:57pmWeb
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 26, 2024

@artemis
It’s really more like, boss has no fucking clue & promoted into a Peter Principle situation using Privilege, and only ‘wants things done’ and done for them. So you have to figure out their job for them, ‘anticipate their needs’, code for do your bosses job for them, while they take the credit and salary. Mind reading is part of the expectation of the job and used to arbitrarily criticize & keep down.

@caocancio @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

Show threadGusMar 26, 2024
@JoBlakely @artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence To tell the truth, I had the privilege of working with very nice and empathetic people in the past. In environments, sadly, where corporative and administrative issues were far more important than bare competency and honesty. It's more an emergent property than an individual issue. Nevertheless, I understand what you mean better than I'd wish.
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 26, 2024
@caocancio sexism seemed the main variable, though I was extra exploited and mistreated because I was autistic and a woman, and sucked at ‘sucking up’, though was amazing at my work and then some. I just did a great job and made them look good, that should have been enough to be appreciated. If I went above and beyond to help out, it always bit me in the ass after.
‘No good deed goes unpunished.’
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Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 26, 2024
@caocancio @artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence I think a lot of NT people get ahead mostly on the kissing ass & sucking up to the person with power, more than doing good work. excellence is kind of discouraged, though it will be both exploited & then mistreated if offered and they decide it’s a good idea. They will hate that it’s your idea they are implementing. That’s not the hierarchy of flow in their mind. It makes them feel bad even if they never are made to look bad.
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 26, 2024

@caocancio @artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

Job descriptions should just be
do whatever we tell you, that’s your job, if we don’t tell you, just figure it out yourself bc that’s also your job, and you must laugh at our shit insulting jokes, you must suck our dicks and kiss our ass always figuratively and sometimes literally.
Anything goes, or you go.
Here’s 4x more work, don’t ask for more money.

Show threadGusMar 29, 2024
@JoBlakely @artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence I apologize for not having replied to this properly sooner. Some of the things you tell deeply resonate with me, though I assume we both know they are actually far more complex. I would just like to point out that it's not good to assume bad intentions or extreme selfishness in others. Where you have self-consistency or a logical imperative, they face an incomprehensible world with fear and a myopic vision.
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 29, 2024

@caocancio
With respect, my bosses had no fear of any retaliation, were incredibly abusive,
had extremely bad intentions, and only thought of themselves. They had power and authority and abused it.

@artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 27, 2024

@artemis
You must mind read, presume (this explains many just developing presumptions not facts or understanding), to do life, work, etc. this is expected (& worse don’t like it when you understand more than them)…but if you get depression or anxiety cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) says maybe YOU are wrong & you can’t mind read.
They condition you to mindread, then try to gaslight you or make you doubt yourself & your own mind more.

@caocancio @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence