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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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  • Nah, I'm sure it wasn't sarcasm. But my manager did constantly mention how I wasn't socialising much with my colleagues, always made a point of saying how introverted I was, so I reckon it was just fitting in with the "a good worker is a good chatter" ideology. I like how you put it, actually - I will have to use that in future conversation!

    I definitely agree with you that grafters are perceived as threats and as rivals. Often employees most vocal about how much they disliked me etc were the ones who did the least work, were the most gossipy and were the most spiteful.

    I can't help being a hard worker. It's in my aspie nature to want to finish a job through properly with as few distractions as possible. That should be seen as a good thing in the workplace, but instead, it seems to be one of the worst things one can do.

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  • Nah, I'm sure it wasn't sarcasm. But my manager did constantly mention how I wasn't socialising much with my colleagues, always made a point of saying how introverted I was, so I reckon it was just fitting in with the "a good worker is a good chatter" ideology. I like how you put it, actually - I will have to use that in future conversation!

    I definitely agree with you that grafters are perceived as threats and as rivals. Often employees most vocal about how much they disliked me etc were the ones who did the least work, were the most gossipy and were the most spiteful.

    I can't help being a hard worker. It's in my aspie nature to want to finish a job through properly with as few distractions as possible. That should be seen as a good thing in the workplace, but instead, it seems to be one of the worst things one can do.

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