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Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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I want to tell my coworkers "it only takes you this long to do things because you don't know what you're doing, if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't take you this long". My autistic brain sees that as a pep talk to just learn the thing and all will be good but my friend said there's an emotional aspect that comes into play that I'm neglecting.
I don't find the relevance because we're not talking emotion we're talking skills, a binary either you have or do not and if you do not you can gain; since you do not have then simply gain. I conceptually understand how it could be taken offensively but I can't help but see it as a reccomendation to gain a skill/telling someone to learn something for their own betterment. They factually do not know what they're doing, that's why I typically send courses and articles on the skill they need or explain how things work to them when they reach out.
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Like when it takes them 2 days to do something then their other priorities get delayed or reassigned, giving more work for the remaining team including myself. If the remaining team is unavailable then they can't be relied upon to complete their task. If they instead get the skill that keeps delaying them, then they will stop getting task reassigned and the remaining team can continue with their regular work load. I am a proud bare minimum worker. I only do the bare minimum according to my standards with no impact on the rest of my team i.e. not increasing their work due to my proud bare minimumness. I can't do bare minimum when I get extra work that's already past due πI feel this deep in my bones as another autistic person lmao. It's so frustrating that people are so sensitive to that. It sounds like without putting it so bluntly, that you've provided opportunities for them to improve their skills through courses and articles which I think is entirely appropriate. But the thing of it is that people don't care which drives me up the wall.
They do not care if it falls on another person because it's not their problem. Anecdote: I had a couple of coworkers who ALWAYS, weekly, multiple times a week, would call in sick or be late. I recognized that being short staffed would but a lot of stress on my coworkers, and so I started filling in a lot of shifts because I know how I feel when the shift is short, and I don't think other people should have to feel that. I started to get worked up about this and spoke to another coworker who simply said: "Stop caring. It doesn't matter, stop taking shifts." And that just sat so wrong with me. Like these people are just going to suck at their jobs, make it more difficult for everyone, but no one cares to try to get them to shape up?? It was extremely stressful/emotionally taxing work even when fully staffed, so it really struck me as bizarre that people just put up with it.
They also don't care if things are inefficient, because they just do their little workarounds that don't make sense or are a pain in the ass because they can't be arsed to figure it out even if it would ultimately make their lives (and everyone elses) easier. I assume it's an autistic thing, maybe not, but I feel like our "bare minimum" is generally much higher than that of our peers. Not all of the time, but in my last job I definitely noticed this with pretty much all but one or two of my coworkers. We did really enjoy our work, so did everyone else. But we easily did 2-3x the workload of everyone else and still fucked around the office or went home early and clocked our FTE.
All of this. My bare minimum is doing the work but I'll fuck around, take regular breaks, leave early, then get it done the day before it's due. And I also prefer doing it to general standards so we don't have to go back and do it again. But others either do it half assed causing problems later or take so long doing it that it impacts the rest of us.
It's super easy to look like an exceptional employee while not doing anything exceptional at all, but others want to work "harder" for some reason
I get where you're coming from but most people are going to interpret that as you telling them to git gud which isn't going to be helpful.
They likely already feel bad about not being able to keep up and then you're piling on, or they don't give a fuck and your effort is wasted.
If I tell someone git gud and also provide the resources to get good is it still offensive?
Genuine question too, this is one of those neurotypical communication aspects that confuse me.
It can be, yeah. People generally are just really really bad at taking constructive criticism, especially unsolicited. You need a lot of rapport with someone for them to not jump to being defensive, and even then I've had friends of over a decade still not take things well when it was advice they didn't ask for.
Now they might also be offended in the moment and then work through it later and take it to heart, but you're risking pissing off and alienating coworkers so π€·
I just stick to teaching the ones that reach out for help, at least you know they'll likely be more receptive to that
Q: How to give constructive criticism to people who need it but don't want it?
A: you don't
Guess this is the constructive criticism I need to take myself π. I do love teaching and helping others grow in their own skills at least, so I'll wait for them to ask
Yeah, if nothing else learning to just bite my tongue and say nothing has helped me be less neurotic day to day. People gotta want to be helped first, save my energy for them instead of making myself crazy over people not meeting my standards.
Not my circus not my monkeys, etc. sometimes i just vent here, or to friends if someone really drives me up the wall