I live in the Kansas City area, and on tonight's news one of the local tv stations did an investigative piece about a woman w/ Asperger's who'd been fired from a city job after a number of years. She had great performance reviews, many compliments from members of the public. She was fired as 'unfit for duty,' apparently because she made complaints about longterm ongoing bullying against her. I'm glad to say the tv station's 'take' on this was very sympathetic to her, says that the city is going to review their actions on the matter, and the tv station has promised to follow-up on what's done about this. The poor woman was interviewed as part of the story & I really felt for her. It was obvious that she was upset by having lost this job she really loved (working in Animal Control for the police dept.), and also that she was functional and not in any way obviously 'weird.' I hope it will help some people locally understand Aspies better.
I live in the Kansas City area, and on tonight's news one of the local tv stations did an investigative piece about a woman w/ Asperger's who'd been fired from a city job after a number of years. She had great performance reviews, many compliments from members of the public. She was fired as 'unfit for duty,' apparently because she made complaints about longterm ongoing bullying against her. I'm glad to say the tv station's 'take' on this was very sympathetic to her, says that the city is going to review their actions on the matter, and the tv station has promised to follow-up on what's done about this. The poor woman was interviewed as part of the story & I really felt for her. It was obvious that she was upset by having lost this job she really loved (working in Animal Control for the police dept.), and also that she was functional and not in any way obviously 'weird.' I hope it will help some people locally understand Aspies better.
How can a person be unfit for something if it is not her doing the bullying, they need to take the victim more seriously,not the bully.
Maybe they wanted to squib out of paying her long-service leave.
She didn't need leave of any sort. It was the city's unwillingness to make a serious effort to deal with the bullying from her co-workers. They apparently did try but not very hard, then just gave up & decided the easiest way out was to get rid of the one person who 'didn't fit in.' The media seems like they're going to stay on it, though, and I'm glad.
Maybe they wanted to squib out of paying her long-service leave.
Sounds likely, this seems to be happening increasingly, not just with people on the Spectrum. 
I wonder if the employers found it more profitable to fire the bullied than the bully. The bullying in itself was the problem for them, which was the result of these two persons being in the same area.
Well, but there were multiple bullies, & only one bullied. Easier for them to just get rid of one person than to deal with sensitivity training or whatever, I guess. They just figured she'd go away - good for her (and all of us) that she didn't!
Oh I sent in a feedback to the news channel thanking them for a responsible, well presented piece of journalism.
That's good, and maybe if more people did this, they would have more responsible and well presented pieces of journalism.
