Aspies For Freedom

I've always been fired, sometimes after just a few hours, sometimes after weeks or months.

Stella

My longest "regular" job was for 2 years and 5 months, but I've had a part-time job I got as a supplement to my social security, working for 3 hours a day doing office work at an art gallery and sorting documents for a local historian.

I've always been fired, Nanda - sometimes after a few weeks, sometimes after a few hours, once or twice within minutes

What happened in minutes Stella?

At one end of a huge warehouse was a small room complete with electric kettle, and an armchair in which loafed one Mr Perkins.

Mr Perkins told me to 'sort out' a colossal pile of boxes of jelly, and went back to reading The Sun in his armchair. So I just slotted them into the warehouse shelves wherever I could find a space amongst the other boxes.

This wasn't what Mr Perkins had wanted, and when he came out of his hidy hole after about half and hour he said "you've got a new foreman starting Monday."
"What d'you mean," I said.
"You've got the tin tack," he said.
"What tin tack?" I said.
"The sack. The sack Get it? You're no good to us here."
"Why?" I said.
"Clear off you daft cow," he said.

So that was getting the sack!  :cry:

Brenda and Nancy sound neat, smart and glacial like the female guards in Belsen.

One job I had, the boss would time people with a stopwatch when they went on their break, literally.
My organisation and timekeeping are not perfect by any means, so I was late a few times, once he actually scolded me for being 30 seconds late, yes seconds!
I got the sack for bad timekeeping shortly after. The job has lasted about 3 weeks. It was paying £1.20 an hour.

I worked as an insurance clerk in the same building for 22 years from 1967 to 1989.

In 1967 you could just walk into a job in the UK. What are now called 'soft skills' - such as excellent  communication and interpersonal skills, and being a good team player were unknown then.  Also in the 1960s and 1970s there wasn't a 'flexible labour market' with a hire-and-fire employment culture.

I chose 5+ years because Lord-willing I am desperately intending not to get fired (sacked) from this job.  I have never been exactly fired but sometimes have picked up on enough bad vibes to leave more or less when I should have.

I am going into my 5th year at a tech college (polytechnic) which -at least my department- used to feel like a great place, and safe for AS people, but now my boss is retiring because of frustration with the way the place is going, and the new bosses are freaking out about everything that doesn't matter...

When we leave our offices we have to tell the secretaries and our bosses, likewise when we will be late into the office, although students come to see us so rarely that it's almost a miracle when one shows up.  of course it would be the day one was late, but...

Some other teachers in other departments or divisions routinely cancel class or barely teach (just read the book to the students), and suffer no consecuences.

In my department, we are told we must report our own lateness, so I do, because it's better to be honest... and then I am reprimanded for lateness.  when I used to not report my lateness, because I thought it wasn't a big deal, I used to get caught "I looked for you at 9am and couldn't find you..."
When I gave my final exams a few days early and cancelled classes for the rest of the semester, I was reprimanded for that.  I know for a fact that other teachers do this and don't get caught.  But I did it and got emailed lectures from the dean about it.

OK, compared to the horror stories that some of you have told, this is nothing.  

But I wonder what I will do once my boss has retired and I have to answer to those picky people who will be my new bosses, without her to "translate" for me and explain me what's going on so that I don't do anything stupid.  The rest of my department are nice, maybe one of them will help me...  There is no way I can learn enough before August to navegate this on my own...

I've been with my current employer since August 2001. The last one sacked me after five weeks for "not fitting in".

Wow, there's an idea...

I've had the same volunteer job since I was ten, at the library. The librarians have been my best help with learning acceptable social skills, and boosting my self-esteem, making me feel that I'm the good kid in at least one area; that whether or not I succeed in the real world, I've made a difference in the library.

That's longer than any of the temping jobs I had when I was a student!

I've been in my current job for five years (not because I enjoy it, more because I haven’t been sacked…at least not yet).

Prior to that I had a number of jobs lasting anything from 1 day to 6 months. These jobs ended for a variety of reasons; Either I left because I couldn’t handle the job, they sacked me, or I was on a temporary contact that wasn't renewed.
I find focusing on work without getting distracted very hard; In fact I'm typing this message while at work…and when I should be working.

I've had volunteer positions last about a year, but actual paid jobs were less than 3 months. One was a seasonal retail position, where the only reason I was laid off was because sales were lower than the store would have liked. In fact, all part-time employees were laid off, to where now they just have a small staff of full-time workers.

The other jobs were temp assignments that naturally ended when the assignment was finished. I'm still looking for something permanent, as so far the agency hasn't had any temp-to-hire positions, and I don't want to rely on temp assignments as a career. Right now, I've got a civil service test with my city, so if things go well, I'd have a permanent job with the local government which will provide stability. The times I have been laid off were totally unrelated to my AS, so there's never been a case of discrimination in my case. I don't usually disclose my diagnosis as when I've done so, it's really hurt my chances of getting hired.