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Employment (Buckland Review)

Tanya

It is a relief to finally get diagnosed but I am yet to see the benefits, especially in the employment market.  I find it challenging to find and retain work.  I've been bullied and exploited by management.  I been cast out (disposed of) for having the nerve to raise a grievance.  It has impacted my mental health.  I suffered from depression and anxiety but my experience in the workplace has made my condition worse.  Management and HR seem to always stick together to the point of gaslighting the vulnerable (cover up/protecting the organisation's reputation).  I am relieved and saddened to hear so many autistic people being treated this way.  I've heard that less than 10% of autistic people are in work.  I've recently written to my local MP for his response.  I'd like to chat to others who have had similar life experiences.  

 

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  • I had a similar experience. I received a letter attached to an email from my boss about a change in employment terms and conditions, everyone was receiving them, my role was treated differently to all other roles in the organisation. I did not understand why this was the case so wrote back, and my boss and HR called me into a meeting, told me that I was raising a grievance by raising questions and putting them in writing, that they had sort legal advice, and that if I contested their decision that I would lose. Until this point my career had gone extremely well as I worked extremely hard (I'm a people pleaser), and achieved great things for all the charities I worked for. Reflecting on the situation now, I understand that I wrote back to my boss due to my delayed processing speed, discomfort with conflict, and mirroring/masking, and that this was completely understandable and correct. Their viewing of my letter as an escalation was due to their understanding that they had not followed due process so they applied pressure to bully me into not raising this formally. Within a year I had a significant burnout and shutdown leading to my leaving that role. Since then (a year next week) I have completed consultancy work, volunteered lots, spent huge amounts of time renovating our house, and just secured a part time role which will cover my living costs which has somewhat reduced my anxiety. However, my justice sensitivity means that I ruminate on the situation, previosuly considering what I could have done better, but more now on how I could have been treated so badly. Looking forwards I'm interested in what we can do within and for our community to help more autistic people into work that suits them. Thanks for the thread it's really helpful to hear of similar experiences; though I'm sorry you were put through this.

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    Ad Infinitum said:
    . I received a letter attached to an email from my boss about a change in employment terms and conditions, everyone was receiving them, my role was treated differently to all other roles in the organisation

    This already tells me that you were targetted to get rid of.

    The management would have decided you were low hanging fruit and they wanted you gone so the reworking of contracts is a classic way for companies to rewrite job roles to exclude those they want to leave - this way the target will be made to feel unworthy . unneeded and unwanted and by making their life purposefully difficult then they are likely to leave.

    I've been ordered to do this in the past and it isn't nice but is done in a way that HR will be involved but always have the managements side.

    Management are given quite a lot of meetings with HR about how to handle this and what they are allowed to say as it is all borderline illegal, but if done "right" will get the results without the risk of a court case.

    It saved on redundancy payments so to their minds is well worth it.

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  • in reply to Ad Infinitum
    Ad Infinitum said:
    . I received a letter attached to an email from my boss about a change in employment terms and conditions, everyone was receiving them, my role was treated differently to all other roles in the organisation

    This already tells me that you were targetted to get rid of.

    The management would have decided you were low hanging fruit and they wanted you gone so the reworking of contracts is a classic way for companies to rewrite job roles to exclude those they want to leave - this way the target will be made to feel unworthy . unneeded and unwanted and by making their life purposefully difficult then they are likely to leave.

    I've been ordered to do this in the past and it isn't nice but is done in a way that HR will be involved but always have the managements side.

    Management are given quite a lot of meetings with HR about how to handle this and what they are allowed to say as it is all borderline illegal, but if done "right" will get the results without the risk of a court case.

    It saved on redundancy payments so to their minds is well worth it.

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