Mental Repository (M.R.)

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Rant: Just after the start of the year, a new employee was assigned to our department. I was quite enthusiastic at first since it turned out that the guy had geeky tendencies, was a gamer and could chat up a storm. As the week wore on, we found that he was surprisingly irritable at times, was remarkably insensitive with his comments and would react violently when we wanted to change conversation subject. He had a really hard time picking up on subtle humor, sarcasm, irony and even good-natured ribbing. He also has no idea what constitutes an indoor voice.

After several days of this kind of behavior, I decided to pay a visit to our personnel office to check out his file. I found out that this guy had been bouncing from workplace to workplace for most of his adult life. He was a tremendously productive employee but had multiple issues about getting along well with his colleagues. He would constantly seek attention from other people but was not able to reciprocate it properly. He would butt in on conversations that didn't concern him and then proceed to voice out his opinion in a pedantic manner even if nobody asked him about it. He would arrive at one job but would often wear out his welcome after only a few months.

Apparently, our new coworker has Asperger's Syndrome.

Dagnabit.