No Defense Against Do-Gooders

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Last year a state agency referred me to a private human services provider "specially trained" in Aspie employment counseling.

After a few months without warning I was steamrolled into a completely unsuitable job requiring fine motor skills and neatness (my two greatest pre-identified weaknesses) based on my "experience" failing at similar jobs. Haste and expedience violently colliding with the upcoming end-of-month bottom line.

Of course my legit concerns were blown off ($14K salary, no benefits, 300+ mile weekly commute, mind-deadening drudgery, no outlet for my singular extraordinary skills) in favor of these compelling reasons to immediately stop any further job development on my behalf: "Good place to work, growing company, 700 employees, you'll have a chance to move up." BS.

I'm probably going to get fired this week and of course it's entirely my fault that everything grown-ups didn't want to believe played out exactly as predicted for the simple reason I knew going in I couldn't perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.

I have no legal recourse and it's silly of me to expect anybody to step in just because I was so egregiously wronged just because I was so egregiously wronged. But my conscience is clear. I have no regrets, chose the least objectionable available alternative at every turn. If a do-gooder human services agency can stare blindly by because they "can't do anything" then bleep 'em. No matter I suffered more at their hands than at those of my ex-long-term employer against whom I successfully pursued a case with the EEOC. No entity is ever under any legal obligation to do what's morally right. (Of course, neither does that preclude them but I can't tell anyone else to do what's right; I can only do it myself.)

You can't trust grown-ups because they're cowards, bullies, and liars who never own up to their mistakes; they always make excuses for themselves and they always come up with new reasons why I couldda or shouldda prevented a situation I didn't create and desperately tried to avoid until I was backed up against a wall, bullied, browbeaten, coerced and lied to ("No, you got it all wrong, that's not what you heard"). Too bad adults willing to step up and accept moral responsibility are in such short supply.

Everything's good, just sharing the benefit of my experience, I'll land on my feet, always do. I'm Joan Crawford: "Don't bleep with me fellas, I fought bigger sharks than you" (and I did but can't spill details due to a confidentiality agreement signed when they paid me off; as Judge Judy says, "They wouldn't have settled if they were winning").

Three Tone 55 (55 years old going on five, wouldn't have it any other way)

just hold on as best you can until you reach 62 at which point you can get SS, at which point it will be a bit easier to keep a roof over your head.