Detail Oriented?

[grommet]

I do try to make sure things are done accurately if it is something important. In fact, I can become overly obsessed in this regard. At the store where I used to work, they quit letting me cull fruits and veggies. I don't think they wanted some of the products pulled that I had pulled. We were supposed to look for bruises and such but I later came to be under the impression that they really only wanted them pulled if they were actually rotting or something. I don't know why we had to watch a video saying pull it if they don't really want it pulled. Apparently, this is another aspect of detail oriented that I do fit.

I have had a problem like this too. At one job I was told clearly and sternly that I should never allow anyone in unless they showed their identification. I am autistic, that is easy, a clear rule I can follow. But they told me right after, if it is the superintendent's wife, let her in anyway. I told them I could not do that. I said if they made a rule everyone had to show identification or I could not let them in and a rule that said that one person was exempt, I could follow it. They said, no, just let her in. I said I could not do that. They did not give me that job I was applying for.

 

[Judge]

I have had a problem like this too. At one job I was told clearly and sternly that I should never allow anyone in unless they showed their identification. I am autistic, that is easy, a clear rule I can follow. But they told me right after, if it is the superintendent's wife, let her in anyway. I told them I could not do that. I said if they made a rule everyone had to show identification or I could not let them in and a rule that said that one person was exempt, I could follow it. They said, no, just let her in. I said I could not do that. They did not give me that job I was applying for.

Indeed, for many of us on the spectrum we can have problems with conditional "black and white" thinking. Without clearly understanding those "grey areas" in between which are not likely to be written down.

Oddly enough, this reminded me of a sort of "test" given to my college course on police/community relations. He threw a hypothetical question to the class, asking us what we should do in the event we were to stop a suspect of DUI, who turned out to be the mayor's wife. Whether to bust her for drunken driving, or discreetly take her back to her home and documenting nothing in the process.

He seemed quite amused at some of the responses of the students. Particularly those who stated they were criminal justice majors intending to attend Police Officer Standard Training (POST) when they graduated. They didn't seem to be at all happy with his answer.

- Intended as an exercise in discretionary judgment.

But then he was a career police officer, who retired as a well known and respected chief of police in Monterey County California. And throughout the course it seemed very evident that he knew his "craft" quite well.

 

[Aspychata]

I do alot for my partner, who is a MD. So I will list that l managed a doctor's office. Some may accuse me of telling a lie because l live with him, others would say l didn't lie, it puts me in a weird place. Lol