[LONG] One Aspie's Work Ethic.

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I understand what a right is. What is more accurate to say is that a right doesn't confer anything upon me but is a prohibition on government. When it is said I have the right to freedom of speech what it is really saying is government is not authorized to pass laws that would abridge my freedom of speech. This doesn't mean Alex Plank or the other mods is not authorized ban me and impose rules upon me (they do) for the privilege of being here. Freedom of speech only applies to government not Alex Plank or the mods.

Same with a job. Right to a job means Government is not authorized to prohibit me from going through the process of finding a job nor is it authorized from prohibiting an employer from hiring someone. Only exceptions are children and illegals. But, this doesn't prohibit employers from refusing a job to me or firing me at anytime.

I think I understand now what I did wrong.

I went by the literal definition of rights instead of the intended definition of rights. In other words, I have severe difficulty determining someone else's intent.

This advise is antiquated at best. It fails to take into consideration the fact that in the current millennium employers have zero tolerance for Aspies or any other person who does not match the demographics they are looking for. Decades ago, when I was a manager, I strived to hire the most qualified person for the job. Such things as work ethics and work related criteria mattered. Unfortunately, nowadays human resource decisions are based primarily, if not solely, on the criteria you listed as , " it's best to make no mention of another person's age, color, criminal history, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender identity, genetic characteristics, marital status, nationality, race, religion, sex, and/or sexual orientation. "

The question: "What do I have to do to get and keep a job?" is completely invalid since it is not a question. It is two different questions with two very different answers. Fitting the desired stereotype is the only overlapping job skill for both questions. All of your suggestions should be equally important but in real life they just aren't. Getting the job requires not being a certain age, race, or gender, and not having a particular family status, sex issue, religion or perceived disability - all of which have absolutely nothing to do with whether you are qualified to do the job. Keeping the job requires being mediocre and generic. Doing the job with higher quality and quantity than those around you, will get you fired faster than being lazy or lousy at the work. Failure to exhibit the same hates and personal interests and prejudices as your coworkers or supervisors will get you ousted even faster for "not fitting in."

Federal law requires all employers to ask each applicant their race and gender. In the fine print, it states employment may not be AWARDED based on those criteria but the loophole is employment can and is WITHHELD based on those and other illegal criteria. The disabilities act requires reasonable accommodation for handicapable persons but since the law is routinely ignored by ALL American law enforcement agencies, employers ignore it too, without consequence. As long as the employer makes up a false excuse, instead of telling the truth about why they fired you, they can and will fire you for those illegal reasons. What is the statistic on that? Is it still less than 2% of persons are fired for work related incompetence and 98% for personality conflict because someone doesn't like them for not being like them?

Since when is it remotely appropriate to assume everyone else is lazier than you? I stopped reading at "magic".

*edit* I kept reading because thinking about Fnord's posts makes it hard to sleep.

It's beneath common decency to presume irrationality in others. FFS I'm not a morning person unless I haven't slept first & I still say good morning. You're saying I should incline others towards depression?

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White lies are totally acceptable when it comes to saving the butts of your co-workers.

Being a "team player" counts for a lot more than honesty these days.

"Teamwork" comes in three main types:

A. Everybody on the team performs to the best of their abilities, and everybody on the team shares in the rewards.

B. Everybody on the team works to make the team leader look good, and the team leader shares the rewards as he or she sees fit (if at all).

C. Every member of the team does only that which needs to be done to make himself or herself look good, while the team leader takes all the credit for their successes and denies responsibility for their failures.

Type A teams do consistently well in the long run, Type B teams do exceptionally well for a short time until the team leader gets transferred or promoted, and even though the Type C teams seem to be in constant motion, they never seem to really accomplish anything.

a tall order for some of us here at least.