Comments on: Timmy Elsewhere http://timworstall.com/2008/02/24/timmy-elsewhere-224/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Thu, 24 May 2012 02:15:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MarkC http://timworstall.com/2008/02/24/timmy-elsewhere-224/comment-page-1/#comment-7886 MarkC Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:21:59 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/24/timmy-elsewhere-224/#comment-7886 Huh. If you could have heard the triumphal squawk from SWMBO as I finished that EQSQ test. Empathising, 22. Systemising, 90. "See!!" she hollered..... "I told you you're most of the way to Asperger's Syndrome!" Yours, very boringly (apparently) MarkC Tim adds: back in the very early days of my writing there I took the tests. The results led to the Big Cheese asking me if I was actually alive. Very, very low on both. Sorta, I am completely blind to what others think and don't care either. :-) Huh. If you could have heard the triumphal squawk from SWMBO as I finished that EQSQ test. Empathising, 22. Systemising, 90. “See!!” she hollered….. “I told you you’re most of the way to Asperger’s Syndrome!”

Yours, very boringly (apparently)

MarkC

Tim adds: back in the very early days of my writing there I took the tests. The results led to the Big Cheese asking me if I was actually alive. Very, very low on both. Sorta, I am completely blind to what others think and don’t care either. :-)

]]> By: anon http://timworstall.com/2008/02/24/timmy-elsewhere-224/comment-page-1/#comment-7878 anon Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:08:18 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/24/timmy-elsewhere-224/#comment-7878 The Guardian article is interesting because the woman who's the "hero" behind this is only being disadvantaged against because of employment rights. She's 53, so she's not going to be having any more, so maternity leave isn't an issue. And with an 11 & 14 year old, managing childcare isn't going to be such a problem. But companies often think simply. They come up with simple policies that might be "no single mothers", and probably don't care about losing the odd 53-year old by that. Without regulations for employment rights, she'd have had more chance of an interview because such questions wouldn't be asked. She'd get hired, expected to sort her own situation out, and get fired if she couldn't manage it. The Guardian article is interesting because the woman who’s the “hero” behind this is only being disadvantaged against because of employment rights.

She’s 53, so she’s not going to be having any more, so maternity leave isn’t an issue. And with an 11 & 14 year old, managing childcare isn’t going to be such a problem.

But companies often think simply. They come up with simple policies that might be “no single mothers”, and probably don’t care about losing the odd 53-year old by that.

Without regulations for employment rights, she’d have had more chance of an interview because such questions wouldn’t be asked. She’d get hired, expected to sort her own situation out, and get fired if she couldn’t manage it.

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