Fesshole 🧻My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award
StarkRG@fesshole Wow, clear, unambiguous communication and repeated positive reinforcement works on allistics too? Who ever coulda guessed?
Anton Piatek@sldrant "Now you're just arguing semantics." Yeah, no shit, I'm arguing semantics, because the meaning of the words being used to communicate directly influences what's actually being communicated. If we don't make sure we're all using approximately the same meanings, then you get the issue where the term "inflammable" was assumed to mean "not flammable".
@StarkRG yeah, inflammable and flammable is a great example
a.k.a. low-profile@StarkRG @sldrant Highly recommend "The Tyranny Of Words" by Stuart Chase (1938)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2343374.The_Tyranny_of_Words
This is exactly the premise you are defending.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2343374.The_Tyranny_of_Words
This is exactly the premise you are defending.
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D Ingram@argv_minus_one If too many people have clear and unambiguous communications what will the lawyers do for work?
masukomi@StarkRG I'd agree if there were 40 of them but 4? Considering that the team members are typically highly involved in the hiring of new team members, humans tend to hire people "like us" and autistic people have a completely different communication style it seems highly likely that we'd hire folks who understood how to communicate with us (rarely allistic people) and thus…
@masukomi I don't think lower-management often get very involved in the hiring process. I suspect their bosses would do the hiring, and then assign the new employees to various teams. The closest that person probably gets to hiring someone is asking their boss for an extra hand for half the week.
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