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The Neurodivergent Engineer's Strategy for Success
- giantg2 2y ago“For example, one of my team members was having personal difficulties, and because of this he often completed his tasks late at night,” he says. “When assigning him a project, I needed to take this into consideration and estimate how long it would take him to complete it so as to not cause him more stress.” Wow, how do I work for a guy like this? I've requested accommodations and I'm not getting them. My leadership team is encouraging me to work more hours to finish things faster, but then also says they don't want me to burn out.
- drewcoo 2y ago> My leadership team is encouraging me to work more hours to finish things faster, but then also says they don't want me to burn out. Well you can't do both. What do they really want? If they can't tell you without contradictions like that, maybe they just want you to go away.
- giantg2 2y ago"maybe they just want you to go away." Seems that way
- taneq 2y agoThey want to transfer responsibility. They want the things done, and they also don’t want to cop the flak for driving employees into burnout, but they don’t want to recruit more staff. So they say “work more, but don’t burn out, okay?” And now it’s not their fault if you don’t follow instructions…
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- tayo42 2y agoThe reverse would be helpful. I was just talking with my friend about that. Like you can't just be like "hey can you be a little less autistic/focus better/be less erratic today?"
- bluefirebrand 2y agoIf people could just choose to turn it off like a light switch, don't you think they would?
- Aeglaecia 2y agoI'll try and find the study showing information xfer as highest between autists, baseline between non autists, and lowest between autistic and non autistic - it is important to cognize that everyone is suffering in the latter case
- mcmcmc 2y agoImagine telling a wheelchair-bound colleague, “hey can you just stand up for once today?”