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29 Oct 2010, 6:04 pm

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Everyone's stealing jobs from Aspies. We're basically a type of introvert, though some of us may have more extrovert characteristics than others, and hiring managers prefer extroverts, so we aren't going to be hired as often.


...and if they do hire you, they always wanna steal your stapler!


Who are they? The employers or the immigrants or the immigrant employers or just all the coworkers in general?


Oh, I was just quoting office space. Milton from the movie is like the perfect parody of how they treat people with ASD in a work environment.


They meaning everyone in general though, right?

You know how managers will say to an employee in training "don't be afraid to ask questions"? I really have annoyed some of those while learning the tasks I'm supposed to be responsible for. Usually managers, especially in Wal-Mart, will just stick you at a computer terminal where all you have to do is a series of multiple choice questions to pass it - after which you are considered to be "trained", although their lessons are just the same as fine print text in terms of how useful they are in actually doing the tasks required - enough to hold you liable legally but not what you actually need to know. The managers, who were never to be found when I needed the grocery side trash compactor unlocked, didn't like being bothered with questions of "How do I mix paint?", "Is the GM side warehouse suppose to have an absence of order so as to make it more challenging to find the merchandise I'm going to be blamed for not putting out on time?", "Why do you consider a curling iron to be part of Housewares?", "If I'm to be blamed for not being in my department, then could I stop being called to be a back-up cashier?". Managers especially hate questions of "why" since they want their slaves to not speak unless spoken to and otherwise hate "back-talk".



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29 Oct 2010, 7:17 pm

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My stupid parents keep hassling me to get a job so ive applied at every fast food place and every other place ofering minium wage jobs (those are the only kind of jobs i can work in ). But I CANNOT find a job, not even at the arbys by my house, because of those stupid illegal alien leeches who keep taking work from me and other aspergians. those godd*mned ilegals that keep flodding our country are mostly filling up unskilled, menial labor jobs.


Well, let's see ... suppose I'm the manager at the local Arby's, and I'm hiring.

Do I choose a single mother who is trying to support her kids and who I'm pretty certain will be a model employee (and exactly how is it that you know she's "illegal"?), who will show up on time, do her job, and not cause me any trouble?

Or do I choose a lazy, sullen, snot-nosed little jerk who calls his parents "stupid" and blames everyone else for his troubles?



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29 Oct 2010, 7:36 pm

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My stupid parents keep hassling me to get a job so ive applied at every fast food place and every other place ofering minium wage jobs (those are the only kind of jobs i can work in ). But I CANNOT find a job, not even at the arbys by my house, because of those stupid illegal alien leeches who keep taking work from me and other aspergians. those godd*mned ilegals that keep flodding our country are mostly filling up unskilled, menial labor jobs.


Well, let's see ... suppose I'm the manager at the local Arby's, and I'm hiring.

Do I choose a single mother who is trying to support her kids and who I'm pretty certain will be a model employee (and exactly how is it that you know she's "illegal"?), who will show up on time, do her job, and not cause me any trouble?

Or do I choose a lazy, sullen, snot-nosed little jerk who calls his parents "stupid" and blames everyone else for his troubles?


How about this choice, would you rather choose a person who's family is struggling to get by, will seek to do the best they can, will show up on time, will do all that they are responsible for and anything else asked of them, but will complain slightly if mistreated, or would you rather hire someone who is getting enough income from child support to thrive on, might show up on time, will gossip about you behind your back and blames those pendejo pinche de madre gavatchos for not sharing enough their wealth with everyone, but will otherwise be a "model employee"?



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29 Oct 2010, 7:44 pm

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They meaning everyone in general though, right?


No, literally just a quote from a movie there.

Milton is an unsung hero of downtrodden workers everywhere.



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31 Oct 2010, 1:06 pm

hes probably just pissed off and is expressing it in such a way. Plenty of people vent, some more inappropriately then others. The internet for some is like a shrink, and they vent hard :/ is what it is, but obviously we should all post the true answer. And actually yea, it just happens to be that foreigners have a generally better work ethic, or american foreigners as well. Imagine having as or anything else in a Japanese school where everything is so competitive.



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31 Oct 2010, 1:31 pm

I work as a computer programmer, and I do well at it. I worked in fast food in high school for a little while, but it was absolutely horrible, especially for someone with Asperger's syndrome. Also, I know fast food's hiring policies are surprisingly regimented, and they're unlikely to wittingly hire undocumented workers (from my experience).



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06 Nov 2010, 4:44 pm

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1. Don't sell yourself short. You can probably do a hell of alot better than minimum wage with some education, or even without for that matter.
Yeah well Im really good with puppets and im an awesome satirist but my moron of a dad says that i cant really get a good job with that. and he says that its not realistic to want to be a pupeteer and satirist for a living. I cant really find those kind of jobs right now so I have to work at arbys or subway, at least for the time being, to get him off my back. i am working on getting an agent and trying to show my puppet films in film festivals.


I wouldn't hope to much on that, it's very hard to make a living as a artist. As an artist myself i know how hard it is to even get your art out there. You can maybe make a couple of box from your art, but i wouldn't hope to make a living from it. And i don't wanna play the moral police but the way you're disrespecting your parents is kinda shocking. I'm pretty sure the Q'ran says you should respect your parents.



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18 Nov 2010, 2:41 am

People who work at menial level jobs like Arbys do so to build a work history and learn things such as how to get along with your boss and coworkers and do your job assignment as expected.

These jobs have a very high turnover because people use them as stepping stones on the way to something better. The big thing in any job is being able to get along with your other coworkers and "fitting in". This knowing how to "fit in" is what is so difficult for an Aspie to grasp.

Islam in this regard has helped me because learning how to fit in at the mosque helps you to develop skills on learning how to fit in at other places. But this benefit demands a price: You have to get rid of your hard-headedness and open your heart and let it guide you to fitting in.

But someone at my mosque told me that if you take one step towards Allah he will take two steps towards you. The saying that God helps them that help themselves is so very true.


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15 Apr 2016, 10:48 pm

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My stupid parents keep hassling me to get a job so ive applied at every fast food place and every other place ofering minium wage jobs (those are the only kind of jobs i can work in ). But I CANNOT find a job, not even at the arbys by my house, because of those stupid illegal alien leeches who keep taking work from me and other aspergians. those godd*mned ilegals that keep flodding our country are mostly filling up unskilled, menial labor jobs. those are pretty much the only jobs that WE aspies can work in, due to our intense mental block from aspergers, so the illegals are competing with us and of course they win because the liberals in charge of our contry love cheap ilegal labor and they hate a lot of us hard working real americans. that means that we aspies have to get rid of ilegals or else we wont be able to find work. I personally cannot find any work at all and so my idiot parents are nagging at me more than ever. We aspies need to band together to ship all the ilegals OUT. If any others out there have a similar experience as me and cannot find a job, then its probably becuase of ilegals... and for those that have a job, when you lose your job and you need to find a new one, you probably will not be able too, so dont think you are safe. we all need to band to gether to face this illegal alien hord threatening our nation


I agree 1000000% dude!



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15 Apr 2016, 11:46 pm

I thought this was satire.



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16 Apr 2016, 3:18 pm

The Aspies are all playing video games, so they don't need the jobs. :wink:


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16 Apr 2016, 6:06 pm



Dey terk er jerbs!! Derka derrr! :lol:



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17 Apr 2016, 2:34 pm

Wth necroed this thread? Its over 6 years old.


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18 Apr 2016, 12:55 pm

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Dey terk er jerbs!! Derka derrr! :lol:


Do you think this is funny? I don't.

Making fun of the way people talk (for political reasons?) never seemed funny, even when I was a child. Some people never got the benefit of an aristocratic education so speak as their fathers and grandfathers spoke. To an outsider this may be amusing but hardly a reason to make fun of any group, either U.S. citizens or foreigners to our country.

Or perhaps the amusing parts are when these (possibly uneducated) people actually lose their jobs to illegal aliens? Is that the part that gets you chuckling? For over 20 years my manual labor job took me into literally thousands of manufacturing companies....I've seen the people displaced by foreign workers.

The worst situation I've seen (many times) has been entire companies forced to close because overseas companies paying a fraction of a living wage have taken all of their business. Some are sadder than others: I remember when Chicago Rawhide closed....so sad watching these people say goodbye to each other.

It's just not funny.