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Job problems - corporate environment

Judge Dredd
over 1 year ago

Hi all,

I am an autistic male with an official diagnosis from Psychiatry-UK. I revealed myself as autistic to my workplace, and the results were disappointing.

  • Now everybody looks terrified by me. People keep their distance and try to be a politically correct as possible. They alternate between speaking with me like I was a 5 years old, and just keeping their distance.
  • The manager now tries to keep his distance. Every interaction we have is either recorded or done with another person present in the room as witness. He does not do that with the other people.
  • I asked for homework with some stupid excuse, and they granted it to me immediately. The company is very against homework, and they granted it to very few people, nearly all with serious health problems. I am the only one that got approved for homework without suffering from a serious health risk.

My knowledge of corporate environment tells me that the HR is just scared of a discriminations lawsuit and advised my managers to keep me at distance. They cannot just fire me because I waited for 2 years to disclose my condition. 

Some questions:

  • I want a better job, getting promoted in a corporate environment without social skills is impossible. Would I be liable if I did not disclose my mental condition in the job interview?
  • Apart for homeworking, is there any adjustment that can be asked for a network engineer? I do not suffer from sensory overload. 

Thanks

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  • over 1 year ago

    Not only are you not required to disclose The average HR department would prefer if you didn’t disclose at least not in your CV or interview. You absolutely cannot be sacked for not disclosing your disability, but not disclosing your disability may limit your ability to rely on certain protections if you have a discrimination lawsuit down the line.

    in my personal opinion it’s best to disclose soon after you’ve got the job.

    reasonable adjustments can include:

    • putting things formally in writing  normally done informally so that you can be absolutely clear about what you’ve been asked to do.
    • job tailoring where aspects of the job  you maybe find difficult get shifted on to the managers or other engineers (customer service?)
    • special seating arrangements putting you in a quiet area where you’re not easily distracted or disturbed by noisy stimulus
  • over 1 year ago in reply to Peter

    > You absolutely cannot be sacked for not disclosing your disability,

    You have no idea of what you are talking about. If you have been in the workplace for less than 2 years you can be fired without any reason or explanation. HR will never tell you "we do not want aspies in the workplace", they will only tell you some bullcrap about "cultural fit" or something. 

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Judge Dredd

    One conversation between HR and the Occupational Health Therapist, would end a ‘cultural fit’ or ‘no aspies’ witch-hunt, the OHT would tell them that they are going the right-direction to a major-liability, if that don’t make every reasonable-adjustment available on request. Anybody who would ride that line into a disciplinary-hearing would be in for a short-sharp-shock. Hidden Disability is still a protected-characteristic..

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Iain

    Iain, you know what you are talking about.

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