#cw work

[nattywhines-archived]

I cannot wait for my last day on the job and finally experience a career break and be that unemployed friend on a tuesday

[bluegoblinzz]

Today at work a lady god mad at us for making her a skinny sandwich. "I don't want a skinny sandwich, I want a half sandwich!" We had to tell her multiple times that those mean the exact same thing.

[aspd-culture]

is it still disregard to authority if i only break rules when i don’t understand them or think i would be better off without them? like i wouldn’t go out of my way to possibly get in trouble without any personal gain but i will (mostly) openly disrespect rules i think unjustly make things harder from me.

This sort of depends on how well you relate to other criteria and your frame of mind about following the rules.

I pretty much do the same thing as you mentioned here, and the reason for that in my case as someone with ASPD is "it's not worth the headache of getting in trouble", and that alone is good enough to keep me following laws and rules most of the time. Sometimes the rules are stupid, and I don't like them, but they inconvenience me less than the punishment for ignoring them, so I grit my teeth and deal. For laws, I follow all of them bc *any* inconvenience is less annoying than jail time and/or big fines and/or court.

For some pwASPD, that's not enough to keep them following the rules/laws. For others it is. But unless you genuinely respect the rule/lawmakers and believe that smart, good people who are more capable than you made rules because they have a right to control your behavior, then you're technically showing a disregard for authority.

The disregard for authority part of criteria is very much more about mindset vs actions. I may believe a manager is a totally incapable baboon who cannot even be bothered to follow state employer laws let alone decide what is the most efficient or safe way for me to do things, and occasionally I may get the STRONG desire to make sure they're aware I feel that way, but I usually follow the rules anyways because either the baboon managed to make a rule that makes some amount of sense (broken clocks are still right twice a day *shrug*), or because I don't want to tolerate the consequence for not following them. That's not respecting authority just bc I'm following the rule. I still very much do not respect the salaried baboon. I don't even respect the capitalistic society that gave the baboon power over me. I *do* however understand the situation I'm in and act accordingly.

I think about it this way - if someone gives a monkey a pew pew and taught it to use it, you don't have to believe the monkey is smarter than you to recognize that you should give it what it wants. You don't have to even believe the monkey actually knows how to use it to recognize that. You give the monkey what it wants because anything it wants has to be easier to deal with than what might happen if the monkey gets upset enough with a weapon in their hand.

And for that same reason, I'm usually quite sweet to my managers no matter what I think of them.

If you relate to this line of thinking more often than not, then like me you have "issues with authority".

[onceuponadisembo]

My friend who does not know mobpsycho sent this to me lmao why is toichiro there

[2clones-1kamino]

So..something just happened at work and basically it’s taking away my creative freedom for a recurring monthly project I have ownership over. And when i tell you guys that im ready to take a chainsaw to literally anything right now, im not joking.

[joannaharp]

Shoutout to the guy at work that noticed I was triggered and dissociated and took the thing I was folding and sent me to the staff room to sit down. He held eye contact and stood there until I said I was triggered and was like "your eyes are very dilated, and you aren't acting like yourself. Go sit down, I got this."

And then he escorted me to the staff room and signed me out and someone else took me home.

Yeah. Shoutout to that guy. He probably saved me from a full flashback in public.

[felinesindolence]

I have never really understood what is so scandalous or terrible about being indifferent and okay with not wanting or caring to climb the career ladders or as they say, "add something to the economy to make a name of yourself"... the world needs people passionate about work and those who just do things as it is... it needs no explanation or anything to add. In fact, I think it's troubling to expect all to want to compete endlessly... capitalism has ingrained itself in so many people's beliefs and minds, and it'll eat them away at this rate... it's so disappointing and miserable.

[glittoring]

job hunting is so depressing rn like 80% of job descriptions are like we’re AI forward and using AI is part of our listed performance expectations! perish