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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why did you get fired? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2018, 9:11 am
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| This thread is making me slightly paranoid, since I've held this job for over a year now and want to stay in it. I never got fired, but I quit furiously from my first job after doing 100-hour working months for laughable pay on a bogus contract just to get into the market. Looking back, of course t... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Worried about an "informal interview" tomorrow |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 7:33 pm
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Worried about an "informal interview" tomorrow |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 4:35 pm
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| Interview went well. It was more of a chat thankfully and she was very warm and friendly. I disclosed my ASD and said why I wanted the job and how I think it will be ideal for me with some of the things I struggle with. Anyway, they said they are happy for me to go and do a work trial with them, the... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why did you get fired? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 3:34 am
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hmk66 wrote: I was fired (not the current job, but the previous one) because I had poor social skills. If you look at the job itself, my performance was sufficient and I was very independent.
What was the job |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Worried about an "informal interview" tomorrow |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2018, 9:02 am
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| Hello, I've been off sick a long time and have agreed to be redeployed as I decided that thee is no way that I can go back to my current role and cope and my bosses agree. Anyway, a job came up that I think I could manage. It's part time instead of full time, I'll be working on my own and in a quiet... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why did you get fired? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2018, 7:10 pm
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| When I was in my 20s, (when I was much less socially functional than now, but long before I knew I was AS) I got fired from a customer-service job literally for being me. The manager said, "You are a very specific kind of person. And that's OK. But this job requires a very different kind of pe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: (UK) Has anyone done the ESA conversation meeting? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2018, 6:30 am
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| MMy meeting was nothing like and what the previous poster said. Are we talking about the very first meeting with somebody from the job centre or something else? Personally I am referring to the very first meeting I had with a member of staff from the job centre which was in January this year. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: (UK) Has anyone done the ESA conversation meeting? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018, 6:50 pm
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| I got told to claim ESA by my therapist and just got my letter through for my conversation meeting. Im incredibly stressed over this, its not for another 4 weeks but im panicking so much. Has anyone been through it and if so do you have any thoughts on the process? What do they ask and is it scary?... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why did you get fired? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018, 9:00 am
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Replies: 65
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| IDK...they just stopped giving me hours, I never got a reason why, and so I just gave up checking the employee website for shifts after two months of nothing eventually I got a notification of not having an account on that employment site anymore. It was a dishwashing job, who the hell gets fired f... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why did you get fired? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2018, 7:35 am
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| I got fired for making inappropiate comments about a female collegue. Not to her, but to a male collegue who then told another male collegue and then the female collegue's friend overheardd and told her. I knew my comments were inappropiate but I didn't like her or the job so I let it out. It was e... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Any autistic health care professionals out there? |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2018, 8:12 am
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| Hello all, That is exactly the topic I was looking for. I work as a vet in small animal practice in UK. I was recently told that I look not happy enough at work and that I should come to work more cheerful. I think I am an introvert and have some signs of Asp, however non diagnosed. I think this is... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Any autistic health care professionals out there? |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2018, 11:11 am
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| I've also had similar comments to you in how I deal with the patients. It's not the patients that is the problem....it's everything else |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: I don't know what to tell him....HELP! |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 11:24 am
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| I have a job....but I am off sick at the moment You're doing better than me :lol: I don't have a job, but I get income support from when I used to be employed full-time... so I have a full-time income while I'm at university. Try fielding questions about that! I wonder if the guy I'm seeing thinks ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: I don't know what to tell him....HELP! |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018, 7:46 am
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Anngables wrote: Just say “it’s something I don’t want to talk about at the moment, I hope that’s ok”
Thanks Ann he hasn't brought it up again anywhere but at least next time I'll be prepared x |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: I don't know what to tell him....HELP! |
| LostGirI |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 1:49 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I have a job....but I am off sick at the moment |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: I don't know what to tell him....HELP! |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 10:59 am
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The_Face_of_Boo wrote: Tell him that you are currently unemployed, as simple as that?
But that would be a blatant lie and nt a good way to start any kind of friendship or relationship |
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