Fenn wrote:
The reason is everyone else on the team got more done than me - by a lot. I am ADHD (diagnosed) and ASD (undiagnosed) and have low EF skills and that didn’t mix well with two years of social distancing and a boss who is a spectacular technical guy but poor project manager. And there were days i just didn’t get anything done. A lot of them. They probably also wanted to free up my salary for a new technical network/software architect position they are creating. I might try to fight it but in a way I agree with them. I didn’t get the job done.
I am a computer guy. I can write software, I have been a DBA and my last job was DevOps Engineer. Most of the other guys were from Ops I was the only one from Dev. They wanted to do everything by hand and got faster and faster every time they did something - i got slower. If i could automate it - which took time i could make it faster - but not as flexible as a top flight Ops guy. But i couldn’t automate fast enough and would hyperfocus on the wrong things. “Rabbit holes”. Sometimes nothing to do with work at all. Mood issues - dysthymia - and possible bi-polar ii - or not.
My boss said in my last review that when I got stuff done it was really really good but he wanted more stuff faster. But it wasn’t happening.
I'm sorry you were sacked.
It was your employer's responsibility to explore workplace adjustments for you to help you remain in employment. Especially if they were aware of your diagnosis and the barriers you were experiencing. Here in the UK it would easily be a disability discrimination case.
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