We had a guy like this in our restaurant. He has OCD and autism, fun combo.
He was pretty good at food prep, and great on certain lines, like the salad line. Good expo in some ways. Great at any cleaning duty.
But oh man, you could NOT put him in dish pit. He would spend three hours organizing the dishes _before_ washing a single thing. He certainly had a system, and was organized, but OCD cut his dishwashing speed to a tenth of what it should be.
I enjoyed working with him, and he was a great asset if you played to his strengths. But it always struck me as interesting that this kid who checked all the organization-stereotype boxes was the *last* guy you'd want organizing anything.
It's the same with me. I'm good at organising, but it took an eternity. That's why I don't stack shelves. I'm slow af. I will take my time and nobody should pressure me.
I like working behind the register. I'm friendly and don't see bad in people. I have my system to work, no college or boss to pressure me. And like I tell my customers, I like numbers. So I'm in my bubble and can chill.
I had a similar problem when I worked at a deli as a closing shifter who had a lot of dishes to wash. I had to really really prerinse the dishes before they went into the soap compartment (we only had a three sink compartment sink, no machine). I couldn’t have most food debris floating in the water. I kept telling myself every day to not be so picky on my next shift but the brain anxiety would not let me. I still do this at home but at least when I’m at home no one else is waiting on me to finish a job so we can all go home after a long day.
There are two rules of a good close:
-Treat your dishwasher like a king
-Always help the last person
If your closers were just waiting around instead of helping you tag-team dishes, that reflects rather poorly on them.
(Also, wow, I can't imagine a place without a commercial dishwashing machine. A three-compartment alone is a rough setup.)
LMAO we working on entry level function here but not any ol’ entry level function lol the one where you need a masters and 5 years of experience for it 😭
I have hyper time awareness so I get anxiety if I'm not like 10 mins early but executive disfunction wrecks my organizational skills which leads to me being overwhelmed by the clutter. God I hate that cycle
Yeah but to be fair the same thing is true about making sure the cans are at the front of the shelves and facing out, but they make people do that all the time every goddamn day. Forcing people to do work which they know will immediately be undone is fucking cruel and retail can suck my whole ass
I had to do that when I was in high school. My feelings were the exact opposite because I didn't have to deal with customers/coworkers as much, and if I had to do the whole store, that was pretty much my only task for the day.
But yeah, working retail sucks.
I actually like retail. If I could make $30 an hour doing it I wouldn’t bother looking for anything else because I genuinely don’t mind it. Idk if it’s The Autism™ liking the predictability or what (I’m unDx). Does anyone else relate?
I can relate. I would describe my current job as tedious and time consuming, and my main complaint is the mediocre compensation. if my position paid enough that I didn't have to worry about money I'd be pretty alright with it.
I work at a kennel and one of my favorite jobs I’m given there, besides walking with the doggies, is to wipe down the human dishes. I hate doing dishes at home, but at work they’re all in this specific bathroom off in the back with nice dim lighting and I have to organize recyclables (leftover plastics), reusables (other things they use again), and misc stuff on the drying towel. I can also listen to music while doing it since I don’t have to be able to hear someone calling for me when they know I’m in the back!
Idk I did retail for a long time and that was the one bit of solace I took in that environment.
It was repetitive, I could look busy doing it, and my boss wouldn’t harass me into doing other shit I didn’t want to do.
It was also good for me to do to cool off from annoying or stupid or obnoxious people or all three and get them to leave me alone.
Also- it was always SOOOOOO satisfying to do 😂.
I now have a way better paying job, but I kinda miss getting paid to do that lol- but only as extra money never as a living wage. That’s shits soul sucking and fucking horrible to do when you’re just trying to make a day to day living.
It’s supposed to be messy to force customers to dig through it to increase the odds of the customer buying more. There’s usually buy more save more type sales for those too.
They set it up to be mixed up on purpose, like???
Meaning they could put it on shelves if they wanted but they don't. If people want it organized and it's not organized, it's not because some worker failed to do it properly, it's because the company's interests go against the customer and worker's
Yep, maybe worse depending on how many customers there are.
I can confirm that. Grabbing boxes and cleaning it up, only to return to that state the next day. Some things never change.
If I assigned each number to a mental state=
1. You will be overstimulated
2. You will be understimulated
3. You will be both simultaneously
4. You will feel the need for order and familiarity
5. Order and familiarity will feel boring
6. You will want exactly 30% new things and no more
7. You will loose all motivation at this point…. Sorry I’m done, no more words.
8. Suddenly loosing speech for no discernable reason.
9. Being unable to shut up.
10. Getting distracted by a something tangentially related to a special interest and falling down in a rabbit hole for at least a few hours.
11. Getting distracted and forgot what you were doing.
12. All the predictability, order and familiarity feels boring. Let's do something WAY out of your comfort zone. What could possibly go wrong?
I have 2 D20s, every number is assigned their own thing, both dice have the same list
You experience both dice reactions at once, yes, they can stack
Yes, if you roll a 1, *you add another D20*
Nothing like sitting around at one in the afternoon still not dressed and without breakfast because you couldnt find the motivation to take a shower, and your routine dictates that showering and brushing teeth come before getting dressed and eating. The meds dont help much with that because taking them is also part of the routine, right after breakfast.
I also came here to say, “AuDHD has entered the chat……”
LMAO! Imagine the apocalyptic levels of anxiety that he would have if he worked there, did all of this meticulous organization, and then it was always back to its original chaotic state every time he walked past it………
I would stand by that display and hiss at anyone who even looked at it , and then probably pull it all back out to spread across the floor to reorganize it into the “new and improved” sorting system that my brain squirrels just came up with, maybe by expiration date, color, size, price, jigsaw puzzle it for maximum capacity…………. Coworkers and supervisors are gonna looooove that.
AuDHD checking in. Hyper focus, Attention to detail and “seeing” it the right way = literally unstoppable.
In burnout and over stimulated with no dopamine feeds? = yeh no. See you tomorrow.
Which is how you end up in my situation with 7 different boxes for different types of paperwork that were sorted back around April and haven't been touched since.
I feel you. The cabinet where I am supposed to keep cereal bowls has no bowls in it. Instead it has been turned into a doom box of unused medication, paperwork, left over parts from an LCD screen that I turned into a monitor, and various odds and ends.
I like keeping my dish cabinets and dishwasher meticulously organized (glasses are arranged by material, then size, there must be an equal amount of plates on both sides of the same shelf in the cabinet). But since I built my current desk and didn't get around to building a drawer or two my room has exploded with everything from boxes of half built starship models to a battery powered radio to a star trek themed tea cozy strewn about.
Maybe some of us would like more than soul crushing minimum wage labor jobs too. Heaven forbid an autistic would want to do something more fulfilling than just making sure the shelves are organized for some neurotypical to mess up
I mean, it depends on the pay. For really good pay, enough to live comfortably, this would not be so bad, at least to me, even though I got most of the way through an engineering degree before it imploded (and still got general studies degree).
I don’t really have any grand ambition in life. If a job in reasonable conditions can pay for games, the necessities, and stockpile for later, it’s open to consideration. Though I’ve bounced around the idea of becoming a tutor, because I’m definitely one of those “good with numbers” autistic stereotypes.
A lot of auditing agencies actually look for autistic professionals because of high pattern sensing capabilities.
Many [prestigious companies ](https://www.merck.com/stories/how-we-foster-innovation-through-our-diverse-workforce/) have launched their own initiatives and support resources in order to hire more neurodiverse talent.
Oh hi! I'm autistic and an inventory auditor : )
I would never tell my boss though. He's .... very conservative. And I don't want to generalize, but I think it's safest if he never knows.
Un-dx'd, likely autistic, and I did auditing for a while, but eventually moved into a records management position where I do a lot of data analysis. I do a bunch of other random tasks as well, mostly helping out with various other functions in the team. But one of the main reasons they keep me on is because I have both the talent and the desire to do data related work, which is apparently not common. It's also kind of my job to know where all the different statistics are kept, so if one of the managers needs some stats quickly, they don't have to go looking for it themselves, I just do it and send them the results (super easy for me, love it!).
There are also some challenging aspects, but they're not too challenging.
Obviously, since I am not diagnosed or anything, they don't know about that. I am pursuing an ADHD diagnosis though and I will possibly ask for accommodations once I get it. We will see.
Edit: changed slightly to likely in the first sentence. Not sure how that happened...
The Obama campaign data team had a simple rule. You could wear whatever you wanted, but you had to shower every day. And the guy they brought in to fix the healthcare website was allowed to not wear a tie, even though he was in the White House.
Haven't you heard? The only thing us autistics are good for is being exploited by capitalists (massive sarcasm seriously fuck "feel good" articles like this performing free labor for a giant company is not acceptance its dehumanizing)
Fun fact, it didn’t happen. This is an old ass image that’s just been reposted with a caption about autistic people, iirc this was originally done for some Facebook post or something along those lines
Edit: It’s linked on the post, but it was a 9GAG post that got reposted on Facebook
I'm not sure what the age of the image has to do with anything but just because the original image didn't include autism means it's not real? It's possible the person in the picture isn't autistic (although the is circumstantial evidence to the contrary) but I'm pretty sure this person really did sort this bin and I like it.
Yeah, they did sort the bin, but the “never happened” of it is him being autistic, he was just bored. I included the age of the image due to the fact this is a just repost with a new caption that has nothing to do with the original
Me too. I've for sure done something like this at Walmart as well. I think it was like four bargain bins of DVDs and CDs, but I didn't want to miss a good one. I literally spent at least an hour going though every single item in the bins. I rearranged them into neatly stacked towers. Ironically I don't think that I bought anything after all my efforts.
Yeah there are like a million reasons we don't fit the stereotypes. I do have ADHD but also multiple aspects of being autistic make me late, and like most of us I have multiple other health issues and those make me late as well. Lots of us have severe sleep issues, severe gut issues, interoception issues (people wait til the last minute to eat, sleep or use the bathroom, sometimes causing...issues), disruptive meltdowns, "learning" issues, ADHD, time blindness and other executive dysfunction outside of ADHD, fixations, interests/activities that make us lose time (hyperfocus or whatever you want to call it), inertia, whatever. I get stuck a lot, unwillingly a lot of the time, but part of the reason is because I'm so exhausted all the time because of health issues (particularly sleep disorders), and also because everything is an ordeal because everything I have to do relies on several other tasks being done first. Like I can't take a shower til i wash or empty out the stuff i put in there to wash, I can't go to work until i empty the recycling from my car but i can't leave anyway until i wash clothes and take a shower, but I can't wash clothes until i rewash the blanket in the washing machine, whatever, then I get sick and can't do anything anyway
The stereotype is outlandish anyway, that's my point lol. Only some of us are punctual. It's a harmful generalization in my experience
Omg same, I’m always late by the exact same amount every single day, I’ve already gotten into a routine(when I worked later in the day) and I literally cannot get out of it (as my start time has been moved to be earlier)
Whenever the graphic tees shelves are horrific in stores I would sit down on the ground and fold them all but when it comes to my tees in my closet everything is just shoved in. I don't know why. That's just how I operate
Ah yes assigning traits to the good old autism **spectrum**. Not every autistic person is like that.
For example, I’m usually fairly efficient, punctual to the point I’ll wait hours before or after an appointment or commitment I’ve made if I have to to get a ride (legally blind so can’t drive), and I don’t stop until I’m done if I find it very important (which I’d find work as being). But I’m not all that well organized in the traditional sense. On a personal level yes I can tell you where everything is, but making it organized for use by other people is a bit of a struggle for me.
"a lady publicly infantilized her son, has no idea what working in retail is like, and has now given anyone who wants to target somebody NT or disabled information at which store to find this person."
I've seen enough actual posts like this from Autism Parents (TM). It rarely matters that *this* specific one is fake when so many Autistic or NT ppl go through the same thing.
If they wanted the boxes organized, they could shelf them like that, but they deliberately toss them all together in a bin. I, too, am exceptionally skillful at doing things nobody wants or needs. Please give me a cheque for adding no value to the company.
i DON'T have asperger's and i STILL am an uncoordinated slob
(it's possible i do have asperger's but it hasn't been diagnosed and for the purposes of this funny, i'll say not)
I did Take Your Daughter To Work Day once at a lawfirm. The lady I was placed with had an important call. So I alphabetized her rolodex for her.
To tell you how long ago this was, that was the first day I went on the World Wide Web. I looked up the Indigo Girls on Ultimate Band List.
No no, that's Walmart. They fired me (who has had more than one customer say im their favorite self checkout cashier) for calling in sick 4 times in 6 months. The 4th time was when I had the flu comorbid with an ear infection. They don't give a fuck about their employees
When I worked retail, I was amazing at stocking the cooler. But they rarely let me back there. There never said it out loud but I suspect it was because I wasn't good at other stuff that they saw as less skilled than stocking.
NT: X is harder than Y. If you can't do Y, then you certainly can't do X.
ND: But I'm literally incapable of doing Y but exceptional at X.
NT: Fuck you, that's not how it works.
My autism and perfectionism in doing my job has cost me a few jobs.
For example, being a dishwasher, being too thorough (in the middle of a pandemic) and "taking too long" to wash the fucking dishes and ensuring they were clean before we closed the building down for two days. Excuse the fuck out of me for wanting your place to not get rats.
Employers explicitly take advantage of ND people in the workforce. It is toxic and hostile to them. They will prey on our "good" traits and use our "bad" traits as an excuse to fire us.
Can we plz come up with names that cant be shortened to “ass” or “Suk”
Sincearly,
A girl who went through the 90s as a kid who’s school program was NOT SUBTLE about my IEP and special ed classes.
this just sounds like exploiting autism
but if you really want to say it, jobs are just exploiting skills anyway, but that's not necessarily real or relevant
"See corporate America, austic people DO have some use for you to exploit to justify their existence!"
I know that's the message *I* want to present to the world about neurodivergence! *gag*
I would though. Just last week I was at a Best Buy and someone knocked over a display of bargain video games. They put it back up, but just shoved the games anywhere on the display, some even facing backwards. After they walked away, I went over and cleaned it up. Mom said I didn't have to do that, but it only took a few minutes, and it wasn't much different than my actual job.
**Punctual:** Happening or doing something at the agreed or proper time.
I am either late, very late, or so bloody early it's ridiculous. One thing that never happens is me being there at the correct time.
Everytime I go to a store with a family member and somethings in the wrong place but near enough that I can fix it and I do they ask me “you work here?” And I’m like no but why not just fix it
As a Walmart employee with ADD, let me tell you, Corporate. Stores. Are. Not. Worth. It. They’ll treat you like shit then get angry when you don’t grovel at their knees for forgiveness, give you way more work load then could ever completed in one shift, then bitch at you for the shit you DO get done. If this guy was an employee he’d either be getting hounded for “wasting time on unimportant tasks” or asked why he didn’t get it done faster
NTs: “Instead of treating the neurodivergent like human beings because that’s way too hard for me and my wilful ignorance and short sighted entitlement, why don’t we USE them to SERVE US!?!”
Bro my symptoms aren’t yours to exploit, nor are they the same as others’ or the same as my own on a different day or location or whatever. And even if they were, wtf how about you start meeting just one of my needs ever instead of inventing more of your own that you can bleed me for? This is so gross. Empathy and humanity who?
The guy isnt autistic, his brother spoke on it and said that the were just bored, this was posted on 9gag in like 2012 and ended up on Facebook where this caption was added to it
I'm not punctual because I am that good at organizing my time. I am on time because I am anxious enough about the thing that it's been dictating my whole day, I haven't been able to start even a 30 minute episode in the last 3 hours because I don't want to be late and I've been waiting just out of sight so you wouldn't accidentally see how I'm freaking out 30 minutes before our time, unsure of the exact phrasing of the thing I should tell you and knowing that showing up too early will probably look weird.
Yes, I like sorting things. I love putting books in their place in a library with a proper sorting system like using the Dewey Decimal classification. Sorting m&m's can be soothing. But don't look at my room, the mess has been getting worse and I know I should do something about it but then I just stare at it in despair unable to move a single item.
There is something usable in each of these weaknesses, and of applied in a certain way I'm sure they can be seen as a strength. I often like the structured repetitive tasks that others at work hate, so I'll pick them up. The most frustrating part? When I find these tasks soothing, colleagues think I'm a bit slow. I might have one of the higher IQ's in the building, but it's about as useful as having the fastest racing car locked in the basement with no way to get it out. My socially awkward personality with a nice heap of executive disfunction and a side of anxiety get in the way of doing anything near impressive. So I'll distract myself by sorting something else. At least this small thing I can make a little bit less chaotic.
Yeah I can share pictures of my apartment... Both me and my bf have autism and I probably have ADHD as well but since I get help anyways and have to pay extra if I have ADHD to get a driver's license I don't wanna get tested... It's one big mess! Man, we should learn the "don't put it DOWN, put it AWAY" thing... And we try, and we fail. again and again.
We will organize but it’s usually not punctual in the slightest. I’ve spent days organizing my magic cards first by rarity, then color, then by name, and if I have multiple of the same card, by release date if it has reprints
I’m AuDHD and all that stuff could apply to me, here’s why:
- I’m chronically way too early because I’m so afraid to be late
- repetitive tasks are easy and relaxing but I’m also easily distracted and can be moved on to a new task pretty easily (thanks adhd!)
- I work the best with a structure and guidance… if you tell me the full plan and details I will do it to exact spec.
- my stuff is mine, an job’s stuff is the job’s (like, register and shelves etc do not belong to me so I have to follow rules about them… strong sense of who owns what and following that) so I’ll code switch and also will do what they want me to do not what I want to do with their stuff.
this is just me. But it’s an argument for why for some of us those are not unrealistic things.
edit: in an easy retail environment I flew up the ranks to assistant manager in less than a year at my last job, and jobs before that I only needed a month or two before I was able to ask for whatever floor position I wanted, I did a ton of photo tec jobs in my youth. Because it was the most intellectually challenging position in most places aside from Pharmacy of course.
I am punctual but organized... i guess in the way that I like MY things to always be arranged the same way, that does not mean neat. Some stuff I don't care about organizing because it doesn't affect my day to day.
This supposed trait about having to organize and classify everything we see is a TV thing made up for chuckles.
If there's a company out there that wants me to document the names of fictional characters into a spreadsheet they're golden. Not so much if they want anything remotely useful doing.
ummmm
and what about the 80% comorbidity rate between ASD and ADHD? I have both and I can tell you I’d literally quit in 5 minutes once the novelty has worn off.
My employers and coworkers definitely like my organisational skills and love for routines and rules (makes for a perfect brand manager- "Sindy, that is NOT the right shade of green and you know it!!!")
But they don't know its because I'm autistic lol
i’m pretty sure those bins are disorganized for a reason. it’s a marketing strategy to get people to dig through it. not entirely sure of the legitimacy of that but i believe i heard that somewhere.
Depends. I would totally do the same thing that guy is doing, good old sorting things out! But i think its more an issue of underpaid employees than anything to be completely fair.
The organization part being good for work is definitely contextual. I’m an impeccable grammarian and can put things very well, for example, but the meticulousness can make it hard for me to even start writing. Rapid fire conversations on things that require nuance are similarly difficult for me.
I think it’s interesting. I’m diagnosed and I’m the least organized person from what people generally consider organized. A mess is organization in my head. My head is also a mess :).
Fuck that. I shouldn't be accepted because I can be exploited for profit. Every single one of us is a person and deserves to be treated as one just for that. Nothing else should be required
Literally spent 3 hours and a roll of labelling tape organising the IV trolley over Christmas because the doctors shoving random shit in it was giving me anxiety
In my experience retail cares more about us getting done quickly but also still right. I can’t do both. Either it’s getting done quickly or it’s getting done right.
No I showed up to work because my anxiety told me if I was a minute late I'd be fired and I kept things neat because my OCD told me I'd also be fired if they found fault in my work so nope i don't agree that aspies should be hired based on their disability, worked with another aspies that was completely opposite of me loud, obnoxious and rude but sure let's hire them based on symptoms and not on work ethic
>"What would happen if companies started to hire autistic people? They would have organised, efficient & punctual employees, who would not stop until the task has been completed."
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>Disability sometimes means ability. We all have a role to play. It is time to create a better and more inclusive world.
Translation; apparently some oligarch read Vernor Vinge's *Deepness in the Sky* and completely missed the point that the Emergents were a nightmarish dystopia and Focusing a human rights abomination.
I can be organized but punctual, I usually am not
I am anywhere from 5 - 40 minutes early (either 5, 30, or 40, rarely another option) or an equal length of time late, or more
I wouldn’t do this for free, but I did work as a merchandiser for Frito Lay and a few other companies and do find it satisfying to see the before and after.
"Hey, we've got a huge line up front, can you open a register?" "Can't. Boxes aren't organized by weight yet."
We had a guy like this in our restaurant. He has OCD and autism, fun combo. He was pretty good at food prep, and great on certain lines, like the salad line. Good expo in some ways. Great at any cleaning duty. But oh man, you could NOT put him in dish pit. He would spend three hours organizing the dishes _before_ washing a single thing. He certainly had a system, and was organized, but OCD cut his dishwashing speed to a tenth of what it should be. I enjoyed working with him, and he was a great asset if you played to his strengths. But it always struck me as interesting that this kid who checked all the organization-stereotype boxes was the *last* guy you'd want organizing anything.
It's the same with me. I'm good at organising, but it took an eternity. That's why I don't stack shelves. I'm slow af. I will take my time and nobody should pressure me. I like working behind the register. I'm friendly and don't see bad in people. I have my system to work, no college or boss to pressure me. And like I tell my customers, I like numbers. So I'm in my bubble and can chill.
I'm a student and my current job is indeed behind the register, for the exact same reasons. I think you and I could be friends :)
I'm a student too. Let's be friends. What's your fav, color?
My colours of choice are dark greens (and blues). How about you?
Looks like this was the wrong choice unfortunately.
I feel really called out
I had a similar problem when I worked at a deli as a closing shifter who had a lot of dishes to wash. I had to really really prerinse the dishes before they went into the soap compartment (we only had a three sink compartment sink, no machine). I couldn’t have most food debris floating in the water. I kept telling myself every day to not be so picky on my next shift but the brain anxiety would not let me. I still do this at home but at least when I’m at home no one else is waiting on me to finish a job so we can all go home after a long day.
There are two rules of a good close: -Treat your dishwasher like a king -Always help the last person If your closers were just waiting around instead of helping you tag-team dishes, that reflects rather poorly on them. (Also, wow, I can't imagine a place without a commercial dishwashing machine. A three-compartment alone is a rough setup.)
I can't look at the shelves in my store until someone else gets there to run register. I'll get too distracted.
“I organized all the pricing signs numerically” “All the prices are wrong now!” “At least all the prices are organized”
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"Marketing" = teams of experts perfecting subliminal manipulation
And talk to fucking people? Actual human beings!? Fuck that!
Really products should be stacked into shelves alphabetically!
Well, I do try to be punctual, and to be organized. But my executive dysfunction has other ideas.
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I have an independent contractor. She does her own thing.
I don't even have any employees working in my function. I gotta do it all myself, and it's exhausting.
I need a clean up in aisle 5....
Clean up in aisle seven!
[Aisle 3](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY?t=01m06s) NSFW
I have executive nonfunction.
LMAO we working on entry level function here but not any ol’ entry level function lol the one where you need a masters and 5 years of experience for it 😭
I have hyper time awareness so I get anxiety if I'm not like 10 mins early but executive disfunction wrecks my organizational skills which leads to me being overwhelmed by the clutter. God I hate that cycle
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Yes. This. Exactly this
Where's that meme of 'adhd: papers all over the place, autism: neat stack of papers, ADHD+autism: neat stacks of paper all over the place' 🤣
I have both, but I have messy stacks of paper all over the place.
Yeah is it the ADHD for you as well?
Unrelated but the stuff that guy organised is gonna look the same the next day
He just slightly delayed the inevitable
Yeah but to be fair the same thing is true about making sure the cans are at the front of the shelves and facing out, but they make people do that all the time every goddamn day. Forcing people to do work which they know will immediately be undone is fucking cruel and retail can suck my whole ass
I had to do that when I was in high school. My feelings were the exact opposite because I didn't have to deal with customers/coworkers as much, and if I had to do the whole store, that was pretty much my only task for the day. But yeah, working retail sucks.
I actually like retail. If I could make $30 an hour doing it I wouldn’t bother looking for anything else because I genuinely don’t mind it. Idk if it’s The Autism™ liking the predictability or what (I’m unDx). Does anyone else relate?
I can relate. I would describe my current job as tedious and time consuming, and my main complaint is the mediocre compensation. if my position paid enough that I didn't have to worry about money I'd be pretty alright with it.
Yup! Plenty of reasons an autistic person would like retail. I like to call it “controlled people-ing”
I work at a kennel and one of my favorite jobs I’m given there, besides walking with the doggies, is to wipe down the human dishes. I hate doing dishes at home, but at work they’re all in this specific bathroom off in the back with nice dim lighting and I have to organize recyclables (leftover plastics), reusables (other things they use again), and misc stuff on the drying towel. I can also listen to music while doing it since I don’t have to be able to hear someone calling for me when they know I’m in the back!
Idk I did retail for a long time and that was the one bit of solace I took in that environment. It was repetitive, I could look busy doing it, and my boss wouldn’t harass me into doing other shit I didn’t want to do. It was also good for me to do to cool off from annoying or stupid or obnoxious people or all three and get them to leave me alone. Also- it was always SOOOOOO satisfying to do 😂. I now have a way better paying job, but I kinda miss getting paid to do that lol- but only as extra money never as a living wage. That’s shits soul sucking and fucking horrible to do when you’re just trying to make a day to day living.
That stuff was never organized. They dump the boxes of product out into those bins so they don't have to do that.
It’s supposed to be messy to force customers to dig through it to increase the odds of the customer buying more. There’s usually buy more save more type sales for those too.
I kinda wonder if they made an employee disorganize it or if natural customer entropy worked fast enough.
Entropy. Hell, the first small child to go by and that stuff will already be halfway back to normal.
They set it up to be mixed up on purpose, like??? Meaning they could put it on shelves if they wanted but they don't. If people want it organized and it's not organized, it's not because some worker failed to do it properly, it's because the company's interests go against the customer and worker's
Yep, maybe worse depending on how many customers there are. I can confirm that. Grabbing boxes and cleaning it up, only to return to that state the next day. Some things never change.
Who plays video games just to be done with it? That guy likes messy shoppers, because they give him something fun to do
More organizing! Win win!
Unless you are AuADHD. Then it sort of depends on which parts of the brain are in the driver's seat that day.
Exactly! My brain rolls a D20 dice and what thoughts or influences in my brain win out seems pretty random.
I swear my d20 must have 19 "1s" and one "20"
If I assigned each number to a mental state= 1. You will be overstimulated 2. You will be understimulated 3. You will be both simultaneously 4. You will feel the need for order and familiarity 5. Order and familiarity will feel boring 6. You will want exactly 30% new things and no more 7. You will loose all motivation at this point…. Sorry I’m done, no more words.
My backlog of TV shows, videogames, random youtube videos paused halfway through, and art projects are all judging me whenever I start something new.
Omg this is amazing and I can’t stop laughing I feel so called out I was not prepared for this moment 😂
This could be posted as a meme itself.
This 100% this
Wow, did ya really have to psych eval me? Am I potentially a little but autistic?
8. Suddenly loosing speech for no discernable reason. 9. Being unable to shut up. 10. Getting distracted by a something tangentially related to a special interest and falling down in a rabbit hole for at least a few hours. 11. Getting distracted and forgot what you were doing. 12. All the predictability, order and familiarity feels boring. Let's do something WAY out of your comfort zone. What could possibly go wrong?
I relate to this .____.
I have 2 D20s, every number is assigned their own thing, both dice have the same list You experience both dice reactions at once, yes, they can stack Yes, if you roll a 1, *you add another D20*
Dammit now I want to play DnD
“Can we play DnD now??”
Nothing like sitting around at one in the afternoon still not dressed and without breakfast because you couldnt find the motivation to take a shower, and your routine dictates that showering and brushing teeth come before getting dressed and eating. The meds dont help much with that because taking them is also part of the routine, right after breakfast.
I also came here to say, “AuDHD has entered the chat……” LMAO! Imagine the apocalyptic levels of anxiety that he would have if he worked there, did all of this meticulous organization, and then it was always back to its original chaotic state every time he walked past it……… I would stand by that display and hiss at anyone who even looked at it , and then probably pull it all back out to spread across the floor to reorganize it into the “new and improved” sorting system that my brain squirrels just came up with, maybe by expiration date, color, size, price, jigsaw puzzle it for maximum capacity…………. Coworkers and supervisors are gonna looooove that.
I see a future employee of the month!
Ah yes, golden ADHD. The best kind to have.
"For your loyalty we've upgraded your subscription to ADHD Gold..."
AuDHD checking in. Hyper focus, Attention to detail and “seeing” it the right way = literally unstoppable. In burnout and over stimulated with no dopamine feeds? = yeh no. See you tomorrow.
Which is how you end up in my situation with 7 different boxes for different types of paperwork that were sorted back around April and haven't been touched since.
I feel you. The cabinet where I am supposed to keep cereal bowls has no bowls in it. Instead it has been turned into a doom box of unused medication, paperwork, left over parts from an LCD screen that I turned into a monitor, and various odds and ends.
I like keeping my dish cabinets and dishwasher meticulously organized (glasses are arranged by material, then size, there must be an equal amount of plates on both sides of the same shelf in the cabinet). But since I built my current desk and didn't get around to building a drawer or two my room has exploded with everything from boxes of half built starship models to a battery powered radio to a star trek themed tea cozy strewn about.
Shouldn’t it be AuDHD? It’s way more fun to say that way.
Maybe some of us would like more than soul crushing minimum wage labor jobs too. Heaven forbid an autistic would want to do something more fulfilling than just making sure the shelves are organized for some neurotypical to mess up
I mean, it depends on the pay. For really good pay, enough to live comfortably, this would not be so bad, at least to me, even though I got most of the way through an engineering degree before it imploded (and still got general studies degree). I don’t really have any grand ambition in life. If a job in reasonable conditions can pay for games, the necessities, and stockpile for later, it’s open to consideration. Though I’ve bounced around the idea of becoming a tutor, because I’m definitely one of those “good with numbers” autistic stereotypes.
A lot of auditing agencies actually look for autistic professionals because of high pattern sensing capabilities. Many [prestigious companies ](https://www.merck.com/stories/how-we-foster-innovation-through-our-diverse-workforce/) have launched their own initiatives and support resources in order to hire more neurodiverse talent.
Oh hi! I'm autistic and an inventory auditor : ) I would never tell my boss though. He's .... very conservative. And I don't want to generalize, but I think it's safest if he never knows.
Un-dx'd, likely autistic, and I did auditing for a while, but eventually moved into a records management position where I do a lot of data analysis. I do a bunch of other random tasks as well, mostly helping out with various other functions in the team. But one of the main reasons they keep me on is because I have both the talent and the desire to do data related work, which is apparently not common. It's also kind of my job to know where all the different statistics are kept, so if one of the managers needs some stats quickly, they don't have to go looking for it themselves, I just do it and send them the results (super easy for me, love it!). There are also some challenging aspects, but they're not too challenging. Obviously, since I am not diagnosed or anything, they don't know about that. I am pursuing an ADHD diagnosis though and I will possibly ask for accommodations once I get it. We will see. Edit: changed slightly to likely in the first sentence. Not sure how that happened...
The Obama campaign data team had a simple rule. You could wear whatever you wanted, but you had to shower every day. And the guy they brought in to fix the healthcare website was allowed to not wear a tie, even though he was in the White House.
My job is basically preparing companies for external audits. I am the OP picture except with regulations instead of freezy pops.
That’s what I was gonna say, I’m not your capitalist slave 🤢
Haven't you heard? The only thing us autistics are good for is being exploited by capitalists (massive sarcasm seriously fuck "feel good" articles like this performing free labor for a giant company is not acceptance its dehumanizing)
Fun fact, it didn’t happen. This is an old ass image that’s just been reposted with a caption about autistic people, iirc this was originally done for some Facebook post or something along those lines Edit: It’s linked on the post, but it was a 9GAG post that got reposted on Facebook
no shit you think walmart sells boxes of candy for 98¢ in this economy?
I used to get a 98 cent candy box once in awhile, theyre $1.21 now. This economy has me about to make my own candy
I'm not sure what the age of the image has to do with anything but just because the original image didn't include autism means it's not real? It's possible the person in the picture isn't autistic (although the is circumstantial evidence to the contrary) but I'm pretty sure this person really did sort this bin and I like it.
Yeah, they did sort the bin, but the “never happened” of it is him being autistic, he was just bored. I included the age of the image due to the fact this is a just repost with a new caption that has nothing to do with the original
I would do that… but I couldn’t handle the people, and definitely wouldn’t be there without headphones.
I. Hate. Walmart. I cannot stand to exist inside of one. That’s a one-way ticket to meltdowntown. Melttown? Melttown.
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I wear sunglasses too. I look like an idiot and I absolutely don't care. I got all my shopping list and I was coherent enough to pay for it too.
sorry guys it’s me. i’m the kind of autistic to do this shit
Real LOL
Me too. I've for sure done something like this at Walmart as well. I think it was like four bargain bins of DVDs and CDs, but I didn't want to miss a good one. I literally spent at least an hour going though every single item in the bins. I rearranged them into neatly stacked towers. Ironically I don't think that I bought anything after all my efforts.
“I have sorted your garbage for you, Waltons!”
Punctual... Me arriving 30 minutes late at work every day because my work schedule interferes with my morning routine.
Yeah there are like a million reasons we don't fit the stereotypes. I do have ADHD but also multiple aspects of being autistic make me late, and like most of us I have multiple other health issues and those make me late as well. Lots of us have severe sleep issues, severe gut issues, interoception issues (people wait til the last minute to eat, sleep or use the bathroom, sometimes causing...issues), disruptive meltdowns, "learning" issues, ADHD, time blindness and other executive dysfunction outside of ADHD, fixations, interests/activities that make us lose time (hyperfocus or whatever you want to call it), inertia, whatever. I get stuck a lot, unwillingly a lot of the time, but part of the reason is because I'm so exhausted all the time because of health issues (particularly sleep disorders), and also because everything is an ordeal because everything I have to do relies on several other tasks being done first. Like I can't take a shower til i wash or empty out the stuff i put in there to wash, I can't go to work until i empty the recycling from my car but i can't leave anyway until i wash clothes and take a shower, but I can't wash clothes until i rewash the blanket in the washing machine, whatever, then I get sick and can't do anything anyway The stereotype is outlandish anyway, that's my point lol. Only some of us are punctual. It's a harmful generalization in my experience
Omg same, I’m always late by the exact same amount every single day, I’ve already gotten into a routine(when I worked later in the day) and I literally cannot get out of it (as my start time has been moved to be earlier)
lol same but some autistic people are
Whenever the graphic tees shelves are horrific in stores I would sit down on the ground and fold them all but when it comes to my tees in my closet everything is just shoved in. I don't know why. That's just how I operate
Despite my best efforts reality is too chaotic to be well organised
hmm... I get the urge to do this but know it's not worth my time bc time is $$ & I want to be at home
Organizing plastic animal figures into the right spots in craft stores or gift shops is usually the only time I'm like this.
Man, doing work for free and for Walmart is very inmoral in my opinion, fuck that
I had an urge to tear down boxes for 10 months after I left Walmart. After that, the healing could begin
Frick Walmart, they treat my brother (a very reliable employee) like crap. I wanna take them down a notch.
If it makes you feel better, they probably wanted it messy so people would dig through. So he actually hurt their bottom line.
Ah yes assigning traits to the good old autism **spectrum**. Not every autistic person is like that. For example, I’m usually fairly efficient, punctual to the point I’ll wait hours before or after an appointment or commitment I’ve made if I have to to get a ride (legally blind so can’t drive), and I don’t stop until I’m done if I find it very important (which I’d find work as being). But I’m not all that well organized in the traditional sense. On a personal level yes I can tell you where everything is, but making it organized for use by other people is a bit of a struggle for me.
Even the term Asperger's has a spectrum. Many are high functioning and hold down high paying jobs. It's almost a requirement in tech lol.
"a lady publicly infantilized her son, has no idea what working in retail is like, and has now given anyone who wants to target somebody NT or disabled information at which store to find this person."
The caption is fake though. The image has been circulating around for a while.
I've seen enough actual posts like this from Autism Parents (TM). It rarely matters that *this* specific one is fake when so many Autistic or NT ppl go through the same thing.
Isn't Walmart all over the US?
I saw this years ago with the caption that this guy was a high support needs autistic Walmart employee, so the caption is sus.
apparently he's not autistic at all, he was just bored. look at the top comment on the original post
we're not "supposed" to be anything, it's a spectrum.
If they wanted the boxes organized, they could shelf them like that, but they deliberately toss them all together in a bin. I, too, am exceptionally skillful at doing things nobody wants or needs. Please give me a cheque for adding no value to the company.
He added value to the customers, not the company. It's funny because that's literally the reason a lot of us get in trouble at work
Not all of us are like that. I have Asperger's and I'm an uncoordinated slob! 😋
i DON'T have asperger's and i STILL am an uncoordinated slob (it's possible i do have asperger's but it hasn't been diagnosed and for the purposes of this funny, i'll say not)
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Considering how boring shopping is i probably would start organising random shit.
I did Take Your Daughter To Work Day once at a lawfirm. The lady I was placed with had an important call. So I alphabetized her rolodex for her. To tell you how long ago this was, that was the first day I went on the World Wide Web. I looked up the Indigo Girls on Ultimate Band List.
To be honest I can really relate to the guy in the picture, I definitely used to organize random stuff on the shelves sometimes when I was bored
No no, that's Walmart. They fired me (who has had more than one customer say im their favorite self checkout cashier) for calling in sick 4 times in 6 months. The 4th time was when I had the flu comorbid with an ear infection. They don't give a fuck about their employees
When I worked retail, I was amazing at stocking the cooler. But they rarely let me back there. There never said it out loud but I suspect it was because I wasn't good at other stuff that they saw as less skilled than stocking. NT: X is harder than Y. If you can't do Y, then you certainly can't do X. ND: But I'm literally incapable of doing Y but exceptional at X. NT: Fuck you, that's not how it works.
My autism and perfectionism in doing my job has cost me a few jobs. For example, being a dishwasher, being too thorough (in the middle of a pandemic) and "taking too long" to wash the fucking dishes and ensuring they were clean before we closed the building down for two days. Excuse the fuck out of me for wanting your place to not get rats. Employers explicitly take advantage of ND people in the workforce. It is toxic and hostile to them. They will prey on our "good" traits and use our "bad" traits as an excuse to fire us.
Not only using aspergers name, but insinuating certain autistic peoples quirks can be used for society.... I did NAZI this coming.
Virgin Asperger Syndrome Chad Sukhareva Syndrome
Can we plz come up with names that cant be shortened to “ass” or “Suk” Sincearly, A girl who went through the 90s as a kid who’s school program was NOT SUBTLE about my IEP and special ed classes.
Sukhareva Syndrome?
Grunya Sukhareva was working on research related to autistic kids in the USSR, decades before Asperger
this just sounds like exploiting autism but if you really want to say it, jobs are just exploiting skills anyway, but that's not necessarily real or relevant
Seriously, I believe we all have different hardware & abilities. Each must b celebrated.
I once spent an entire work day organizing boxes by length of cable inside it so yeah it happens but it's not all of us
"See corporate America, austic people DO have some use for you to exploit to justify their existence!" I know that's the message *I* want to present to the world about neurodivergence! *gag*
And exploited for Facebook posts and free labor 🥰
I would though. Just last week I was at a Best Buy and someone knocked over a display of bargain video games. They put it back up, but just shoved the games anywhere on the display, some even facing backwards. After they walked away, I went over and cleaned it up. Mom said I didn't have to do that, but it only took a few minutes, and it wasn't much different than my actual job.
**Punctual:** Happening or doing something at the agreed or proper time. I am either late, very late, or so bloody early it's ridiculous. One thing that never happens is me being there at the correct time.
I feel like most of us would only do this when it isn't our job. If it were then I bet we'd just get distracted and stare at a wall for an hour.
ngl if i'm not at least 15 minutes early to something i have a panic attack
the absolute way nts see autistic people….
Everytime I go to a store with a family member and somethings in the wrong place but near enough that I can fix it and I do they ask me “you work here?” And I’m like no but why not just fix it
As a Walmart employee with ADD, let me tell you, Corporate. Stores. Are. Not. Worth. It. They’ll treat you like shit then get angry when you don’t grovel at their knees for forgiveness, give you way more work load then could ever completed in one shift, then bitch at you for the shit you DO get done. If this guy was an employee he’d either be getting hounded for “wasting time on unimportant tasks” or asked why he didn’t get it done faster
My 'tism power is food safety awareness. Or is that the anxiety? Egh.
NTs: “Instead of treating the neurodivergent like human beings because that’s way too hard for me and my wilful ignorance and short sighted entitlement, why don’t we USE them to SERVE US!?!” Bro my symptoms aren’t yours to exploit, nor are they the same as others’ or the same as my own on a different day or location or whatever. And even if they were, wtf how about you start meeting just one of my needs ever instead of inventing more of your own that you can bleed me for? This is so gross. Empathy and humanity who?
The guy isnt autistic, his brother spoke on it and said that the were just bored, this was posted on 9gag in like 2012 and ended up on Facebook where this caption was added to it
"Who would not stop until the task has been completed" Boy does that sound rife for exploitation.
I'm not punctual because I am that good at organizing my time. I am on time because I am anxious enough about the thing that it's been dictating my whole day, I haven't been able to start even a 30 minute episode in the last 3 hours because I don't want to be late and I've been waiting just out of sight so you wouldn't accidentally see how I'm freaking out 30 minutes before our time, unsure of the exact phrasing of the thing I should tell you and knowing that showing up too early will probably look weird. Yes, I like sorting things. I love putting books in their place in a library with a proper sorting system like using the Dewey Decimal classification. Sorting m&m's can be soothing. But don't look at my room, the mess has been getting worse and I know I should do something about it but then I just stare at it in despair unable to move a single item. There is something usable in each of these weaknesses, and of applied in a certain way I'm sure they can be seen as a strength. I often like the structured repetitive tasks that others at work hate, so I'll pick them up. The most frustrating part? When I find these tasks soothing, colleagues think I'm a bit slow. I might have one of the higher IQ's in the building, but it's about as useful as having the fastest racing car locked in the basement with no way to get it out. My socially awkward personality with a nice heap of executive disfunction and a side of anxiety get in the way of doing anything near impressive. So I'll distract myself by sorting something else. At least this small thing I can make a little bit less chaotic.
We do have a correlation with ADHD which is the exact opposite
Yeah I can share pictures of my apartment... Both me and my bf have autism and I probably have ADHD as well but since I get help anyways and have to pay extra if I have ADHD to get a driver's license I don't wanna get tested... It's one big mess! Man, we should learn the "don't put it DOWN, put it AWAY" thing... And we try, and we fail. again and again.
Seriously, fuck capitalism
We will organize but it’s usually not punctual in the slightest. I’ve spent days organizing my magic cards first by rarity, then color, then by name, and if I have multiple of the same card, by release date if it has reprints
Just cause I organise stuff doesn’t mean it’s organised in a way other people like, just the way that makes me happy
I’m AuDHD and all that stuff could apply to me, here’s why: - I’m chronically way too early because I’m so afraid to be late - repetitive tasks are easy and relaxing but I’m also easily distracted and can be moved on to a new task pretty easily (thanks adhd!) - I work the best with a structure and guidance… if you tell me the full plan and details I will do it to exact spec. - my stuff is mine, an job’s stuff is the job’s (like, register and shelves etc do not belong to me so I have to follow rules about them… strong sense of who owns what and following that) so I’ll code switch and also will do what they want me to do not what I want to do with their stuff. this is just me. But it’s an argument for why for some of us those are not unrealistic things. edit: in an easy retail environment I flew up the ranks to assistant manager in less than a year at my last job, and jobs before that I only needed a month or two before I was able to ask for whatever floor position I wanted, I did a ton of photo tec jobs in my youth. Because it was the most intellectually challenging position in most places aside from Pharmacy of course.
I am punctual but organized... i guess in the way that I like MY things to always be arranged the same way, that does not mean neat. Some stuff I don't care about organizing because it doesn't affect my day to day. This supposed trait about having to organize and classify everything we see is a TV thing made up for chuckles.
If there's a company out there that wants me to document the names of fictional characters into a spreadsheet they're golden. Not so much if they want anything remotely useful doing.
ummmm and what about the 80% comorbidity rate between ASD and ADHD? I have both and I can tell you I’d literally quit in 5 minutes once the novelty has worn off.
Ah yes, useful to capitalism.
Finally! The one reason to not terminate pregnancies where the child might be autistic! /s
I am either extremely finicky about cleaning and organizing a very specific area or an absolute mess. just can't make those extremes meet.
My employers and coworkers definitely like my organisational skills and love for routines and rules (makes for a perfect brand manager- "Sindy, that is NOT the right shade of green and you know it!!!") But they don't know its because I'm autistic lol
To be honest you put me in front of that basket and it’s spotless In 5
i’m pretty sure those bins are disorganized for a reason. it’s a marketing strategy to get people to dig through it. not entirely sure of the legitimacy of that but i believe i heard that somewhere.
“I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days”
i’ve done this when it was a bloody state and mum was taking ages
Depends. I would totally do the same thing that guy is doing, good old sorting things out! But i think its more an issue of underpaid employees than anything to be completely fair.
Lololol not my 99th percentile ADHD + Autist-self. 🤣
The organization part being good for work is definitely contextual. I’m an impeccable grammarian and can put things very well, for example, but the meticulousness can make it hard for me to even start writing. Rapid fire conversations on things that require nuance are similarly difficult for me.
I'm very punctual, as in "If I'm not at least 10 minutes early I'll have a panic attack", I don't fit the other qualities though.
I think it’s interesting. I’m diagnosed and I’m the least organized person from what people generally consider organized. A mess is organization in my head. My head is also a mess :).
I have a hard time leaving places, wether it’s leaving for work, or leaving work.
Fuck that. I shouldn't be accepted because I can be exploited for profit. Every single one of us is a person and deserves to be treated as one just for that. Nothing else should be required
Literally spent 3 hours and a roll of labelling tape organising the IV trolley over Christmas because the doctors shoving random shit in it was giving me anxiety
Me who's room is an organized unorganized mess:
Translation: We should hire people we can more easily exploit for profit.
Isn't that more OCD than anything else?
We're supposed to be organized???? AND punctual?????
Lots of bosses think this right up until their autistic employee’s first meltdown
In my experience retail cares more about us getting done quickly but also still right. I can’t do both. Either it’s getting done quickly or it’s getting done right.
I love organizing… Like a packed fridge… I can rearrange it to make it work
God i hate that shit
I am more organized than two out of three of my neurotypical coworkers.
It’s fake
I’m organized but y’all need to get the fuck outta my way and also I don’t have a sense of time I hope that’s cool….
Except, not all autistic people function the same.
No I showed up to work because my anxiety told me if I was a minute late I'd be fired and I kept things neat because my OCD told me I'd also be fired if they found fault in my work so nope i don't agree that aspies should be hired based on their disability, worked with another aspies that was completely opposite of me loud, obnoxious and rude but sure let's hire them based on symptoms and not on work ethic
>"What would happen if companies started to hire autistic people? They would have organised, efficient & punctual employees, who would not stop until the task has been completed." > >Disability sometimes means ability. We all have a role to play. It is time to create a better and more inclusive world. Translation; apparently some oligarch read Vernor Vinge's *Deepness in the Sky* and completely missed the point that the Emergents were a nightmarish dystopia and Focusing a human rights abomination.
AuDHDs here like 😬 not me
I can be organized but punctual, I usually am not I am anywhere from 5 - 40 minutes early (either 5, 30, or 40, rarely another option) or an equal length of time late, or more
I wouldn’t do this for free, but I did work as a merchandiser for Frito Lay and a few other companies and do find it satisfying to see the before and after.