Rate This wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:24 am
A couple of other possibilities… the push to get A’s or bust and you’ll get shamed for anything less so you can go to college and “amount to something” and blah blah blah. Or being told “you’ll never be anything if you don’t go to college” and being forced to go. The psychological pressure there is enormous.
I originally wanted to be in TV News… I tried an internship to get my feet wet… the deadline situation was awful. I understand why they have it but it does nothing good for one’s mental health. Even in entry level jobs I had in high school and college… I always did a thorough job… but I was criticized regularly for being too slow in completing the tasks given to me. I wasn’t bullshitting around either… I was just not fast. Instead of understanding and working with that I got discipline or implied threats of it. Think about how that could mess with someone. That’s one of the reasons I could never work in an office… boss walking by asking if x is done yet and telling me to pick up the pace and… just no. If there’s a sure fire way to get me to yell and scream and jump up and down… there it is.
Driving the bus as long as I start out on time or close to it the rest doesn’t matter. If I get slowed down by a crazy passenger or traffic or weather or whatever nobody says a word to me. Nothing is treated as a deadline. It’s just “as long as we get them there that’s all we agreed to do”. That’s probably why it works for me. I can understand why some of these other folks with issues snap… their environment doesn’t allow them to operate the way they need to and often punishes them for it.
I don’t see much hope that things will change on this front. But I bet you’ll solve a lot of problems between that and the related bullying and bosses that are so power hungry they push their employees around because it’s the only way they know to control what people do. There’s yet another thing that exacerbates mental health.
Basically the people snapping are easier to snap and somehow got pushed there by someone or something.
One of the best post's I've read on here in sometime. If I know how to a job I can do it pretty fast but... I need to learn it in and out. If it takes the normal person 10 minutes, it's going to take me 35 minutes. It's like people think that " You should just know how", it doesn't work that way with everyone. I've been at my current job for 18 years, if I were to start that job new today I wouldn't make it, as under the way management does things now, they don't want the job done correctly, they want it fast. I mean, the way my autistic brain is wired, I need to know all the ins and outs of the job and the justification for the rules of it, Not " because that's way" type of thinking.
In many workplaces it's asinine rules and power trips that rule the day,The whole "Faster Faster" mentality is truly killing us. The USA is the only industrialized country that doesn't mandate time off for workers and an average 10-13 days a year is pretty paltry compared to what say France, Australia, and Germany get. Not to mention people not going to The Doctors or seeking mental healthcare services because there PPO either doesn't pay for the service or the Co-pay is so high that its just not doable.
So people already venerable without the services and support they need, coupled being able to buy a gun like a Cell phone, gee what could go wrong? So I do agree that it is mental health but... hate to break it to you, it's the guns too.
Driving a bus doesn't sound like too bad of a gig.