I sometimes feel sorry for employers


First don't get me wrong, I've worked in 5 different factory's 2 supermarkets and many other jobs and each and every one over the years i was severely discriminated against for being different and looking different! so I've felt the full thing like many of us but sometimes i feel sorry for employers where they can never win, either sued/legal actions taken against them for not employing autistic people or risk of discrimination claims against the company for not following the laws due to other normal people, working for them running on the animal Hierarchy system where it;s fine to demean people below them but if you do the same as them to fit in you're the bad person!

so my solution which will come across as discrimination in itself ( but i personally would not say it is! ) if the employer is big enough separate Nuros from autistic in the work place and keep them from interacting with each other, because lets be honest/realistic by now it's proof it can never be healthy for either party or employer, it's better to not employ us due to the risk of lawsuits! but if we can separate them there be far less issues for both of us!

what do you think? ( I apologies if this comes across the wrong way, my intention is not to harm anyone but to find a working solution for both party's ).

 

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  • if the employer is big enough separate Nuros from autistic in the work place and keep them from interacting with each other, because lets be honest/realistic by now it's proof it can never be healthy for either party or employer

    I suspect this sort of segregation would be breaking a discrimination law in itself. While it may be done with good intention, it is isolating and treating us differently when I think most of us want to be able to just co-exist peacefully.

    I've been a manager of a ND staff member who couldn't work due to continuous burnuts and after 2 years of not coming to work and showing no sign of improving I was ordered to sack them for this.

    The HR team processed all the legal stuff of notice, just cause etc etc.

    It's a touch one but sometimes we just don't make financial sense to employers because of our predisposition to long absences.

    Of course changing our work environment is one way to improve this but we seem to have such a range of sensitivities that there is no clear way forward for most managers without significant changes in how teams work and interact and the effort to do this will often outweigh the effort of just finding another NT member of staff.

    Employers are not charities so is it reasonable to expect them to bend over backwards for our needs beyond what is legally required? 

    Something to discuss.

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  • if the employer is big enough separate Nuros from autistic in the work place and keep them from interacting with each other, because lets be honest/realistic by now it's proof it can never be healthy for either party or employer

    I suspect this sort of segregation would be breaking a discrimination law in itself. While it may be done with good intention, it is isolating and treating us differently when I think most of us want to be able to just co-exist peacefully.

    I've been a manager of a ND staff member who couldn't work due to continuous burnuts and after 2 years of not coming to work and showing no sign of improving I was ordered to sack them for this.

    The HR team processed all the legal stuff of notice, just cause etc etc.

    It's a touch one but sometimes we just don't make financial sense to employers because of our predisposition to long absences.

    Of course changing our work environment is one way to improve this but we seem to have such a range of sensitivities that there is no clear way forward for most managers without significant changes in how teams work and interact and the effort to do this will often outweigh the effort of just finding another NT member of staff.

    Employers are not charities so is it reasonable to expect them to bend over backwards for our needs beyond what is legally required? 

    Something to discuss.

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