Macbeth wrote:
mgran wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
If you have a right to work then that means other people have an obligation to provide you with work, even if you can produce nothing of value.
Employers ought to have a right to reduce hours until the employees select a job that they are more willing to actually work at or begin to improve to a proper level of competency within the allotted time provided them. As for me, if given work to do I do it orders of magnitude better than my coworkers after I understand my tasks and responsibilities.
If hired at just about any job, I will outperform anyone else at anything. There are certainly people who would abuse any right and any system, but everyone in general should not be punished for the faults of the few.
Do you say that sort of thing in interviews, because I am certain many employers would balk at such a statement. You should at least quantify it. You don't know you can outperform anyone at anything in almost any job. At best you know that you have outperformed
some people at the jobs you have held
so far.
I enumerate situations in which I have outperformed my coworkers and do not make such a statement outright. Thanks for giving advice I already knew.
[b]It's not staggering arrogance to state a fact. I have the problem of having an embarrassingly high IQ, high qualifications, and not knowing what to do with them. Given the fact that most people are prejudiced I try to pretend I'm not as clever as I am, but I am still often accused or suspected of being "arrogant", when in fact I'm just ahead of most of my "peers".
I wish there was a fundamental right to work... But if I actually describe my qualifications I'm accused of bragging.
It's not fair, and it's not my (or the OP's) fault.
Having a higher IQ or being more intelligent than your peers is not unusual with AS. Being better at tasks is not unusual either. The problem is that it is also not unusual for people with AS to come across as arrogant and supercilious. Granted, this is not the same medium, but if 'keet talks to his co-employees anything like he talks to people here, then he will be screaming "I am better than you." with every word he speaks.
Its a common problem, but not one that is easily overcome. Like all social skills, there are techniques that can help, and choice of words is one of them. Incidentally, the same techniques usually apply to dating, small talk and most other social interactions.
Nah, I don't talk to coworkers in an "I'm better than you" fashion, but rather try to talk to them about their interests or be silent and learn more Spanish, although with the usage of words primarily being in regards to who is a worse pinche de madre, hijo de punta, or suggestions to miras las chichas there isn't a lot to learn that I really care to learn from most of my previous coworkers, except, perhaps, how gullible gavatchos are. With most English speaking coworkers, usually the topics are actually work related, although conversations about Red VS Blue, Halo, Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles and such have also been interesting.
08 Nov 2010, 8:47 am
