Every time a wave of new hires walks in, I know at least half of them won't be sticking around past a month. I'm not sure what they're expecting when they apply to a school for autistic pre-schoolers, but considering one new hire recently quit after refusing to change diapers or take kids to the bathroom, I get the impression some truly haven't thought the job through. Yeah, you're going to deal with diapers, potty accidents, kids who don't know how to cover their sneezes and coughs, and who will dig into their food and make a massive mess. That's all kind of part of the deal when you're working with toddlers regardless of neurotype. I don't know what she was expecting.

It's a rock fact

I really misread "trainees" for a moment there

A few years ago, we had school kids in the company for a week-long internship.
And on one of those days, I was doing hardware tests for a software we wrote, and a colleague, who was taking care of one of the kids, he saw me and spontaneously asked, if I could explain to the kid what I'm doing.

And the thing is, the colleague didn't know me or my project, so he loved my infodump. He asked tons of clarifying questions, including questions that went way over the kid's head.

Meanwhile, the kid did not say a single word during my infodump. You could tell his mental capacity was reached long before we talked and then came my 20-minute-long deluge of information. I do hope that the kid took away at least an impression, but it just did not seem like my words even entered his ears.

And yep, pretty much that look on his face. Like a deer staring into the headlights before it's hit by a truckload of information.

You see, it's a simple process of 15 steps with a few judgement calls at steps 4, 7, and 12. I'm not counting the issues with steps 2 and 10, we're always keeping that in the backs of our mind, of course.