Fesshole 🧻19h ago
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
Show threadStarkRG18h ago
@fesshole Wow, clear, unambiguous communication and repeated positive reinforcement works on allistics too? Who ever coulda guessed?
Show threadmasukomi16h ago

@StarkRG @fesshole "A team of 4 Database Engineers"

I'd bet good money that at least 3/4ths of them are autistic too.

It's a pretty effing nerdy discipline to focus on enough to be considered a "database engineer"

Show threadStarkRG15h ago
@masukomi That's a fair assessment, 3/4 seems like an over estimation though.
Show threadmasukomi15h ago
@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…
Show threadStarkRG14h ago
@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.
Show threadThe Doctor

@StarkRG @masukomi They absolutely do. Usually they write the first draft of the position requirements, and are the second tier interviewers (with first as well as last right of rejection).

Source: That used to be part of my job.

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