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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

  • over 1 year ago
    Judge Dredd said:
    Would I be liable if I did not disclose my mental condition in the job interview?

    I don't think there is any loability involved unless your condition / disability brings a threat to others (eg being an autistic bus driver who suffered meltdowns in traffic to the point of crashing the bus). If there is any risk at all then disclose it, but as a network engineer configuring routing tables, subnets and installing switches etc then I cannot see anything that would be an issue.

    Judge Dredd said:
    Apart for homeworking, is there any adjustment that can be asked for a network engineer?

    This is for you to decide. Do you find anything an issue because of your autism that sensible changes could improve? Think stuff like sound, lighting and smells typically, but if you do not suffer these sensory issues then focus on what does affect you.

    Trying to cut out speaking to people altogether is never going to work as you are part of a larger IT team and there are very reasonable expectations for you to act as a part of that team.

    Maybe if you tell us your autistic related issues we can help.