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Help with communicating with neurotypical managers (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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So, it's my first time working in a country that legally requires workplaces to accommodate neurodivergence. I have been upfront about my diagnosis since I joined.

It's my first admin-heavy role, and turns out, ADHD doesn't like double checking if every single field on a page was filled in correctly.

After being put on a PIP, I've been working on an autohotkey script that automates the clicking and navigation, and prompts me to enter data where needed. In theory, tihs means I don't miss out on anything as long as the script works fine, and when you don't do the clicking yourself, mistakes are easier to spot when you check.

I presented it to my manager (first time manager, woo.) today during the weekly review, and this was what they said: "My concern is, would you be able to follow the process and do the task if you were to lose access to this tool you have built?"

It seems like no degree of explaining that it's not that I do not know how to do the task correctly, my brain just loathes the finer details and would mean the work would be more prone to error will get through to them.

I will be resigning before the final check next week anyway, but just want some advice on how to respond to that question in the future.

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[–] 1 point 15 hours ago

It's like that argument math teachers used to make, right? "You won't always have a calculator in your pocket!" Except, yes. And if you had a job that required a calculator you would own a couple to take with you, and you would become proficient in the maths anyway even if you used the calculator because you're doing it so frequently. And when do you ever need to solve maths under pressure, how rare is that.

But teachers wanted you to be capable of doing the job without a calculator because they had this imagining that you had zero knowledge of how to do a maths, if you used a calculator.

But you have to know how to do the sum to enter it into the calculator. It's just useless busywork for busyworks sake, not using a tool that speeds up an unnecessarily time consuming job.

They made electric mixers, does that mean you should always beat cake mix by hand just in case you have an emergency cake making need?

You know the job so well you built a program capable of doing the job, and your manager is worried you don't know how to do the job, instead of seeing that you are actually improving your time management, and making the job more efficient and less error prone. All humans are prone to error, that should be a universal understanding.

Sit your manager down and get them to use the program and then ask them or tell them how it works, explain the mechanics and how to build it. Explain time saving and efficiency.

I'm glad you're quitting this manager thinks you're incapable in the face of huge evidence otherwise. What a dick!

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