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by lzaaz 1280 days ago
>If I struggle with timeliness, you’re going to think I don’t care about my job. If I forget something, you might just conclude I’m dumb.

If you struggle with timeliness or forget about things frequently I don't care what the reason is, you are out anyway. If I needed things done on time, it wouldn't matter to me if you were late frequently because you are careless or because you have an illness.
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DannyBee 1280 days ago
Consider having just the tiniest bit of empathy for other people.

In the end, who cares if they write "was good at work" on your tombstone. Why not try for "helped people when they needed it"?

As a severely ADHD person who manages a lot of people and managers, if i saw a manager acting like this, this sort of "don't care at all about anything but the output" is not a thing i would generally reward.

Certainly people need to be able to do the job, but there is a different between trying to lift people up and help them do it, and just burning through people to try go get things done.

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lzaaz 1280 days ago
No, what I'm saying is that the article makes it sound like a boss will fire you for being oblivious about your diagnosis and your illness. Instead, I think that the job needs to be done, and if you aren't able to for whatever the reason is the boss is going to have to find a replacement for you.
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LesZedCB 1280 days ago
you are looking at it from the perspective of the boss.

try looking from the perspective of the worker who want to succeed in a highly regimented world that's artificially constructed that way.

if you don't believe the world is artificially constructed in myriad ways which are counterproductive to vast populations, i recommend the book Invisible Women.

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fallingfrog 1280 days ago
Oh, we know.

I often feel like a colorblind person who keeps getting reprimanded for mixing up green and red. As if, if they just penalized me a little bit more, I'd stop mixing them up.

The world is cruel and ok, it's not fair, but sometimes you just can't do anything but suffer and struggle on. Certainly it's the nature of the world that your strengths are usually ignored while your weaknesses are always thrown into sharp relief.

What else can you do? I'm certainly not going to just curl up and die.

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