This makes me think. I think I’m realizing a bit late in life that I’m ASD, and all I ever wanted in work was to make cool stuff and do a good job. For the most part, I think my supervisors have just let me do my thing, with minimal oversight, overlooking as much as possible my quirkiness and occasional meltdowns.
But now I’m starting to be able to turn my autistic focus on developing models for what I’m beginning to see, a bit like you’re describing, a whole world of status seeking, an invisible world I’ve only vaguely been aware of, not interested in participating in. But now that I’m experiencing some of the slowdowns of aging, I’m waking up to other ways of being in work and world that most other people have been doing their whole lives.
To me, this post is more about manager- and dominance-psychology than why large organizations exist. I guess you mean large, bureaucratically-bloated organizations, with lots and lots of fat. OK, yeah, I get it now. My background has been in leaner orgs. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to have a truly bullshit job. I’ve always been one to dive in and become relatively essential to operations.
This makes me think. I think I’m realizing a bit late in life that I’m ASD, and all I ever wanted in work was to make cool stuff and do a good job. For the most part, I think my supervisors have just let me do my thing, with minimal oversight, overlooking as much as possible my quirkiness and occasional meltdowns.
But now I’m starting to be able to turn my autistic focus on developing models for what I’m beginning to see, a bit like you’re describing, a whole world of status seeking, an invisible world I’ve only vaguely been aware of, not interested in participating in. But now that I’m experiencing some of the slowdowns of aging, I’m waking up to other ways of being in work and world that most other people have been doing their whole lives.
To me, this post is more about manager- and dominance-psychology than why large organizations exist. I guess you mean large, bureaucratically-bloated organizations, with lots and lots of fat. OK, yeah, I get it now. My background has been in leaner orgs. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to have a truly bullshit job. I’ve always been one to dive in and become relatively essential to operations.