<story><title>‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’</title><url>https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gq9tqwk8z108/They-Get-Fired-All-the-Time-And-They-Have-No-Idea-Why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leggomylibro</author><text>&amp;gt;One day the young man’s manager called her in a panic. The manager had asked him if he would like to complete a task that needed doing, and the young man simply said, “No.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Later, when asked why, the young man said he’d been working on another project on a deadline and didn’t think he should take on extra work. Scheiner explained to the manager that he needed to be more specific and directly tell the employee that he wanted him to set aside what he was currently working on and start on the new task.&lt;p&gt;I gotta say, I&amp;#x27;m surprised that this needed to be explained to the manager. If someone asks a worker whether they want to do something and the worker say &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;, the manager&amp;#x27;s instinct is to panic and escalate before trying to clarify anything?&lt;p&gt;I guess it&amp;#x27;s a good example for the article - it&amp;#x27;s easy to empathize with the person whose manager got confused, and easy to understand how dealing with those kinds of situations on a daily basis ends in the workers quitting or getting fired.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Everyone&lt;/i&gt; feels uncomfortable when a conversation goes off-script, but we as a society expect the &amp;#x27;abnormal&amp;#x27; people to be the ones who bear the consequences of that discomfort whenever it arises. It doesn&amp;#x27;t seem fair, especially since the &amp;#x27;abnormal&amp;#x27; people are expected to bear their discomfort in silence, but that&amp;#x27;s life for you.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’</title><url>https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gq9tqwk8z108/They-Get-Fired-All-the-Time-And-They-Have-No-Idea-Why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>From the article: &amp;quot;People with Asperger’s syndrome, the term still commonly used for one of the most well-known forms of autism spectrum disorder, bring serious advantages to the financial markets: extreme focus, a facility with numbers, a willingness to consider unpopular opinions, a strong sense of logic, and an intense belief in fairness and justice. But, like other autistic employees, they often feel alienated from their managers, colleagues, and clients. Sometimes they simply get fired.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if these people were always fired, or has something in the business changed that made immoderate instances of these traits a liability? Tech has changed in the last decade, to where I don&amp;#x27;t think someone &amp;quot;on the spectrum,&amp;quot; could survive very long in a west coast company without being preyed upon by people who trade on other attributes.&lt;p&gt;Using Pfeffer&amp;#x27;s triad of &amp;quot;Performance, Credentials, Relationships,&amp;quot; businesses seem to evolve to where success becomes weighted to the latter two instead of purely on performance. Arbitrage, startups, and other asymmetric, high risk plays could seem to benefit from high performing people on the spectrum, where people in later stage businesses that have more linear growth or stability benefit from the latter two.&lt;p&gt;To me, the trouble with the most functional edge of the &amp;quot;spectum,&amp;quot; view as presented is it seems to both normalize groupthink and some of the more shameful characteristics of political operators, and pathologizes clear reasoning and principle.&lt;p&gt;I get that expecting others to be accountable to my or any other general ethical rules is to choose suffering, but the tendency to pseudo-medicalize people as &amp;quot;on the spectrum,&amp;quot;  who lose politically feels ominous.</text></comment>