Published on 12, July, 2020
Are there any sites that employ people with disabilities. Like I suck big time at interviews due to my lack of social skills. Had a job before covid but had to leave due to sheilding as like most of us on the spectrum I have a weak immune system so was CEV. I had a trial shift at M&S in the bakers district but didn't make the cut as I wasn't quick enough or suited to an independent job role where I'd be working by myself due to my anxiety. I've been a chef, farmer and even done retail in the past. Only work I can seem to get is voluntary work. But hey volentry work isn't go to pay towards my pension. My biggest problem is my anxiety when it comes to the general public and interviews I guess. I went for an interview at Waitrose lately mentioned I was autistic and needed a reader. Finished the interview before I even got home I got an email back saying you didn't get. I also find if I tell the employer I'm Autistic they just don't Wana know and give you a chance even though I'm more than capable of meanial labour like till work and shelf stacking. Anyone ellse find it ducky finding a job. I read that the majority of Autistic people are also unemployed due to similar reasons. Why is know one protesting this.
Minimum wage job!!!!
I've been fired from minimum wage jobs and told that I'm unemployable.
I welcome any useful advice.
Some employers can be very harsh, others more accepting. It would help if they explained why they think you are unemployable, so ask why next time. How did you feel it went when you were working? Were there any difficulties or issues? Sometimes though they just sack people they don't like, or don't fit in, even if they were doing well. You might need employment support, so look into that.
Two of my firings were very harsh and demoralising.
I was working as a support worker with adults who had multiple physical and mental health issues. I got along with the clients but the management and most of the staff hated me. In the end the management played games, giving me rotas which clashed, I was expected to be working in two different places at the same time, I was even left off the rota in one week, I was expected to work 15 hours without a break. At my dismissal hearing I was really slandered, innocent incidents were totally blown out of proportion. I was fired and told that I was totally unsuitable for this line of work, I couldn't be trusted to work alone and I was unable to work in teams. And my behaviour was described as bizzare.
At one time I was looking for retail and supermarket work, after failing several interviews I was sent by the job centre on a compulsory two week retail training scheme, where we were guaranteed a real interview at the end.
After the first week I was asked to leave by the training centre manager. I asked him for the reason, initially he refused, he just told me to leave. I explained that if I walked out then the job centre would stop my benefits because I would be intentionally unemployed. So why am I being asked to leave? His eventual reply was.
I asked why they were terrified of me. He said they are afraid of what I might say or do.
The important point is they are afraid of what I might say or do. Not what I said or did. It was a preemptive dismissal.
When I was working I could manage the job fine in a kitchen I loved it as it was like production lines routines and yeah all fitted into place problem was the nurotypical ass holes I had to work along side because they knew I had more of a brain then they did they saw me as threat they new about my autism too and didn't want to be made a fool out of by someone who was autistic this always has been a thing. Nurotypicals perseve us to be stupid when IQ wise were actually more intelligent than a nurotypical weather we lack qualifications or not. Qualifications don't mean you have a high IQ or your intelegent it just means you put the time in for a digree.