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22 Apr 2013, 8:49 pm

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04 ... -tech-jobs

I'm not at all familar with this organization, so here's the article.


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22 Apr 2013, 10:43 pm

Yeah, NPR is riding the whole "Aspirtech" wave of pigeonholing individuals with AS into (invariably short-term contract) IT jobs. The more robotic and disposable, the better.


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23 Apr 2013, 12:56 pm

WestBender84 wrote:
Yeah, NPR is riding the whole "Aspirtech" wave of pigeonholing individuals with AS into (invariably short-term contract) IT jobs. The more robotic and disposable, the better.


I think it's a different organization, one that I had'nt heard of before yesterday.


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23 Apr 2013, 8:51 pm

I would like to have this in Quebec province!



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25 Apr 2013, 11:11 pm

I don't think there is anything wrong with emphasizing the employment benefits of people with AS. Arguably their business model doesn't guarantee that there is no exploitation, but that doesn't contradict the value of promoting the skills of people with AS.



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26 Apr 2013, 4:45 pm

If you scan through the comments section, someone with "Fnord" in their name made a comment, don't know if that was wp Fnord or not.


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26 Apr 2013, 8:20 pm

MDD123 wrote:
If you scan through the comments section, someone with "Fnord" in their name made a comment, don't know if that was wp Fnord or not.


If it was G. Fnord, does'nt appear to write the same way as Fnord.


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