Is it ethical to outperform your peers?

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Thanks! I know AS persons are supposed to have issues being employed and many of us do, but I think sometimes to you have to look for a non-traditional job. Someone once said that I "think outside the box". I'm so lost sometimes I can't even find the darn box!

If you are able, it is your/my ethical responsibility to out perform our peers... if they are hurt by our performance it is on them ...

I am an employer ... the peers I must out poerform are the competition ... do you think Coke would hold back in order to keep from hurting Pepsi ... ummmm nope ... I can't either ... because my peers will out perform me otherwise, and then I'll have to find another way to support myself. this society has worked hard to eliminate individual competition in education, sports, and many other areas ... in order to prevent "suffering" ... well I will never understand the "sufferring" of an NT and an NT society can never prevent/eliminate the suffering of those of us who do not fit their mold. competition is a healthy necessity. if we don't learn to successfully compete in an ethical environment we will not survive when we're in a scenario where the other isn't so ethical.

... X ...

After a couple decades of out performing and being ostrazized because of it--I finally noticed.

I wasn't getting anywhere any how and most places were happy to burn me up.

I found the nerve to underperform--learning from those around me for a change-and not by the 'textbook ideal'

I still have a habit of out performing, and now have the disease of under performing.

But both high performers and under performers have shown signs of acceptance.

squeezes clown nose.

Keeping in mind that I'm currently unemployed ...

I think if you can outperform your colleagues you can use it to a big advantage in the workplace in some cases. If you can bear not taking credit for all the work that you do and enhance the work of others somehow (perhaps even taking on some of their workload), enhance their performance and allow them to reap all the credit for that performance, you can get allies instead of enemies - and make yourself indispensable to the workplace as well. In an indirect way, you'll still get credit, just not directly. The only problem is being tactful about administering such assistance, better to be seen as naieve than patronizing. If your colleagues think they are exploiting you, but your superiors are (dimly - important - dimly) aware that you do more than you apparently do, I think you are in a good position.

My experience with this is that "noboy respects a sucker" the people I have worked around just think I am a sucker and I think they laugh at me...maybe I am just being paranoid(my forta')but it seems like the bosses may praise you to your face but I have never been financle rewarded for doing extra work and am resented if I stop doing it....not exactly a win win for me.I am sick of getting paid the same as the staff that come in to work complaining about how tired they are ,or sick, or just had some family crisis and expect me to do all the work...after 4 years it gets really old.

If you can outperform them so easily, they're obviously not really your peers in the true sense of the term.