Fired from the census bureau

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So after a week of training, they decide to let me go because I don't seem to be "getting it".
How the f**k am I supposed to understand anything when I have all these middle-aged farts who seem to think it's okay to talk loudly in the classroom while the trainer is talking?!
How am I supposed to do a good job in the field training if the trainer is blabbering on the phone with her kids?! Am I supposed to use that "Super-Duper NT ESP" to "get it"?
This has pretty much broken me right now, and I don't even know if I can find the courage to look for another job. I mean, if the government itself is firing someone who's by all practical purposes, learning-disabled, why shouldn't I just sponge off of it for the rest of my life?

I'm so sorry that has happened to you.

Do they know you have a form of autism?
That may help you in the future to inform them about it.
By law they cannot fire someone because of there disability.

I hope your life gets better soon.

I'm going to try and get an official diagnosis. Then food stamps, then SSI. Like I said, if the government is gonna screw me over, I'll just drain it. I'm already doing that with health insurance. At least until I can find another pizza delivery job, which is crap out here.

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I've killed another thread, I guess.
You know what? f**k this!! I come here for support and get ignored! I get brushed aside enough in real life- I don't need this s**t here.
Goodbye. I'm deleting my account.

YOU GOTTA BE f*****g KIDDING ME!! ! HOW THE f**k DO I DELETE MY GODDAMNED ACCOUNT?!?!?

Sorry I haven't gotten back to this thread that's all.


If you get an official diagnosis, get on disability, not SSI.
SSI only pays about 400 and disability usually pays 600 - 1000 or more depending on how long you've worked.

I'm on disability myself and I make the lowest amount cause I couldn't hold down a job.


I hope your doing ok. Sometimes the forum is slow too. It usually takes about a day or 2 to get responses.

I'm gonna be signing off soon to sleep. Just know that I do care and I hope your ok.

Don't let the world drag you down. If you stick around a while you may find some friends here.

fire mintel, PM me and we'll talk about these things. pizza delivery is an honorable job in my opinion, both my dad and my uncle did it as adults. i love the smell of pizza in the car. you've got the courage to get ssi and health insurance, way to go! you take care of yourself fellow aspie

jeff

I agree about pizza delivery being an honorable job. Well, it doesn't pay all that well, but everyone's always happy to see the pizza delivery guy, right? I've done that job, and it's not easy.


FireMistrel, I'm only seeing this thread for the first time now. Don't leave, please. I notice there are a lot of people on WP who get upset and take it personally when people don't respond to their messages. I really think that in most cases, there's nothing personal about it at all. People just get busy doing other things, and don't get a chance to come back for a while.

Your experience with that job you just lost sounds SOOOO familiar. I was in the Air Force, and although I aced tech school, once I got to my real job, it was a whole different thing. I got shuffled from office to office, because it seemed like I was just a waste of space, and I was constantly being given little talks about how I wasn't "getting it". I got so sick of those little talks that the way I responded made me come across as a person with an "attitude problem." If you get in too much trouble for having an attitude problem, you get sent to correctional custody So, I pretty much lived in fear of that all the time, although I managed to avoid it. When I got out of the AF, I had a number of jobs that ended up pretty much like what's happening to you. I've had jobs where no one actually TELLS ME what I'm supposed to do. At one job, the entire team went off to another country, and I had no one to explain what I was supposed to me doing. At another job, the person who was supposed to tell me what to do was too busy...and he had such a thick accent, I could only understand a third of what he said. Every time I asked him to clarify something, I could tell that I was interrupting something important, and being a big nuisance. I've felt like that at every job I ever had. In fact, now, I'm a stay-at-home-mom, and I still feel like that sometimes. Go figure.


In other words, I completely understand and relate.