Why do NTs favor sociopathy over honesty?!?

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I've never been able to figure out how to conform or act normal. I can only be myself.

I was terrible at interviews for years and years but eventually I learned how to act and sell myself a little and I have managed to land myself plenty jobs.
However that's when the real problems start because I can't keep jobs because I can't keep the act up socialize with my co-workers. I try but deep down I have no interest in other people.
I can have a conversation about work and exchange useful information all day but when it comes to relating and chit chat I just can't do it.
People often see me as thick or slow or I pretend I'm a bit deaf because they have to tell me instructions 2 and 3 times
I Start noticing people's attitudes change towards me I enjoy work and I'm good at most jobs I have tried but I just never fit in.

Often being good at your job just isn't good enough you have to build up somekind working relationship with the people around you which i struggle with and I'm often politely let go by my employer, ignored , pushed out or I end up walking out or one day just never going back.

So For me the interview is just the tip of the iceberg

Where I live, people despise sociopaths. They prefer honesty.

When I was volunteering at the charity shop, I found 6 pounds and fifty pence in one of the donation bags, and I went to keep it, but somebody else there saw and said, ''ohh, look - there's some money. Leave it on the table and I will put it in the donation box when I go downstairs.''
Also at the charity shop when volunteers found something they liked, they always made sure they paid for it, when really, they could easily just take it home without anybody knowing, if it's just a little book or something. Even if something's going to be thrown away, they still used to keep it aside and ask the manager how much money they wanted for it, even if it was a few pence change. I once took a couple of books and some pens from there before without telling anyone (not in the shop, just upstairs when we were sorting the donations).

Who's the honest one? Me (an Aspie) or the other volunteers (the NTs)?

How odd ... I've always been able to deduce that from a candidate's work history, even for recent graduates.

You shouldn't outright lie in a job interview, if you get caught that'll get you fired, regardless of your job performance.

I do interview a lot of people, as part of my job. I tend to make sure we include straightforward technical questions and some form of practical test. We will weed people out based on the tech and practical, then use interview performance as the tie breaker. For the interview questions we tend to focus on competencied. Our interviews are over within an hour and a half. We always also phone all candidates and let them know our decision on the same day. We also rarely interview more than 6 candidates and never go for second interviews.

We do use a scoring system, that is linked to the essentials in the job spec and description. So that should give anyone a big clue for the interview, the interview is asking the questions :

can you do the work?
Will you work hard?
Will you fit in?
Will you stay?
Are you reliable?

You might not have customer services experience, but you can still talk about your qualities that are relevant: efficiency, listening, patience and good manners are 80% of good customer services.

Jason

Regarding ability to do the job - That information usually comes from the resume where you list previous work history and skills.
Regarding testing for ability - I have been given tests prior to a couple of interviews, one even included an alphabetical filing test, a typing (with a typewriter!) test, and a test to re-create documents using certain (Windows Office) programs. Another place I applied for had a written test for weeding out people that are likely to lie, cheat, or steal.

"Initially the results of a test would be interpreted intuitively" - What do you mean by this? What would be the point of testing if the results are being interpreted intuitively instead of objectively?

I get more annoyed by employers who want 25+ "personal references."

As if people won't lie their butts off for their friends.

25+? I couldn't come up with that many people even if relatives count for that.

I also have no education besides a ged, no work history, or anything else to put on a job application.

Crazy people prefer to live in what I call the game world. They prefer a comforting lie to the truth. It's because they have weak characters. Sociopathy is the act of living fulltime in the game world because actual sociopaths are biologically unable to join the real world. NTs can't easily tell the difference between the real and game worlds to begin with, they need to be led.

I've stopped caring about "fudging" the truth.

Employers lie all the friggen' time. No reason I should trouble myself with the truth, especially when the person sitting across the desk from me has the IQ of a carrot.

"We're sorry, but you're just not fitting in here. We're going to have to let you go."

Translation: "You're an ugly woman with a buzz cut and we'd rather hire someone we don't suspect of being homosexual."

Soooo..........I'm all about pleasing the customers and teamwork. Teamwork rocks!! !

Sociopath: a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour and a lack of conscience

Then how to the people do their jobs, if they're sociopaths? 'Cause I'm supposed to be looking for a job, and... I gotta step my game up if I want to get it, lol. And @fraac, I was just thinking the same thing a bit earlier.... Except I was thinking, "People need to just face the facts, and stop hiding in their dream world." And to be honest, leading them isn't going to help. It's like the Matrix. There's people we want to bring out, but you just can't because they're too deep in.

Sometimes I was just fine in interviews, and that's usually when I could appear not to give a crap if they hired me or not. Not like "screw you", but like a friendly "oh well, if you don't hire me someone else will". I got one job because the interviewer liked my signature on my application (he thought it showed that I had brains), and I got another job because the interviewer asked me how I would handle a certain task and I was apparently the only one who said, "I don't know. Someone would have to teach me that" (and it turned out no one could know how to do that, and the interviewer was looking to weed out bullshiaters).

So much of interviewing is total b.s. - employers making judgments about you based on their own biases while pretending to be unbiased, and lying or just not knowing about their own company atmosphere and workings to really tell you what you're walking into anyway. One job I found out later I got hired for because the interviewer thought I could do the job, but also thought I was gay and she was trying to be mindful of diversity and fairness in the workplace - but the work group she hired me into was very homophobic. No surprise about the outcome there. After being bullied out of my last good (meaning high paying) job four years ago, I've been unable to get back into anything high-end that I can stay in, due to my lack of social sophistication. Right now I'm working one step up from total grunt-worker, and that's only because I knew someone who knew the interviewer and she recommended me based on past work with her. They think I'm great here, but I would never have gotten hired based on my interview alone, as I came across as an idiot.

In my experience, job interviewing is a crap shoot that you just have to show up and look your best for, knowing that if they actually hire you it could be a great thing - or it could be a nightmare, too, depending on all the stuff you'll only find out about the company and people who work there after they hire you.

Wrong on - Wrong on all counts ---

I have had several jobs that I got after a 5 minute phone interview or less (some without interview). They were often the better jobs I have had. Some firms (still very few at this time) are moving to using interactive test to aid in hiring.

Some of those jobs were for people who are now my best references.

I have witnessed firms that use primarily the interview to find new employees hire the wrong person time after time. Often when interviewed for a job I find that it is by a person who has no experience in the filed. They have idea of skill sets or how to discover if the person they are interviewing has enough of the skill set to be useful.

The interview is great at weeding out the odd balls - and misfits. Yet among these very people are some of the most valuable future employees available - this is where you will find many hard working, very competent and dedicated people. I know this because I have been on both sides of the hiring process. I can say that some of my best hires were done without interviewing. When I was in the boat business I hired some of the best local mechanics two of which I did not interview at all and another I am sure that this person would not have made it past a standard interviewer.

Add to this the fact that Colleges teach courses in interviewing (from both sides) the chances are good that if a firm depends on the interview to hire they get someone that was really great at the interview and who knows if they have the talent or skill to get the job done.

All this being said - you need to practice interviewing a lot!! !! - There are a lot of companies out there that believed the rhetoric hook line and sinker and because they are NT run (unwilling to break with the crowd) will not change any time soon.

How do you act and lie? How does sociopathy enter into things? I balk at interviews too, but that's only because I don't feel at ease complimenting people on their personal lives. That doesn't make people who do sociopaths. Does it?

Just gotta say, I'm in complete agreement with everything OP has said here. All too true. It really is a sick system.