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Is doing a good job about fitting in? Or doing it well?

longman

I thought it worth posing this questions as it underlies a lot of the problems faced by people on the spectrum in obtaining employment.

We currently live in a society where fitting in is more important than ability to do a good job. The work place is a social environbment. Many hours of productivity are lost by the amount of time frittered away by employees socialising on the job, when they should be getting down to it. Promotion often depends on joining Round Table or Freemasons, whether your partner is a good cook and has people round for candlelit suppers.

The BIG problem for this country atr the moment is the capacity of employees to waste time at work.

People on the spectrum have the unusual and valuable talent of being able to focus on a job and stay with it to completion. They don't need social displacement activity.

Yet often they cannot gain or hold down a job, primarily because they cannot do the social bit.

British employers should wake up to the value of hard working committed employees not being allowed to work just because they cannot socialise.

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  • I wonder if the suggestion - could you look like you were working harder - was sarcasm? It also bears out that the manager's idea of a good worker was a good chatter. 

    People in work place hierarchies don't like grafters - people who work well and hard. There's a logical reason for this - most people aren't committed workers. They want to chat all the time, and they resent working hard for the wages they get. So someone showing them up isn't perceived as helpful.

    Also anyone working diligently is perceived as a rival - after their job.

    I should have said, I guess, in my original posting, that the diligence and committedness of people in the spectrum is often their undoing  - because work colleagues feel vulnerable and conspire to get them sacked. While it is true, what I set out to do was state an over-simplified challenging standpoint.

    Also I hoped the by-line might help get this thread get picked up on google. I'm being provocative.

    I'm puzzled by recombinantsocks reply .....are you saying people on the spectrum shouldn't try to seek employment? You appear to be defending current workplace ethics and implying its all out own faults. Maybe though it is "black and white thinking".

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  • I wonder if the suggestion - could you look like you were working harder - was sarcasm? It also bears out that the manager's idea of a good worker was a good chatter. 

    People in work place hierarchies don't like grafters - people who work well and hard. There's a logical reason for this - most people aren't committed workers. They want to chat all the time, and they resent working hard for the wages they get. So someone showing them up isn't perceived as helpful.

    Also anyone working diligently is perceived as a rival - after their job.

    I should have said, I guess, in my original posting, that the diligence and committedness of people in the spectrum is often their undoing  - because work colleagues feel vulnerable and conspire to get them sacked. While it is true, what I set out to do was state an over-simplified challenging standpoint.

    Also I hoped the by-line might help get this thread get picked up on google. I'm being provocative.

    I'm puzzled by recombinantsocks reply .....are you saying people on the spectrum shouldn't try to seek employment? You appear to be defending current workplace ethics and implying its all out own faults. Maybe though it is "black and white thinking".

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