By Anonymous - 01/11/2014 18:59 - United States - Deatsville

Today, my boss is still refusing to fire my psychotic coworker, who's made it his mission to insult, annoy, bully and threaten me every day into making me quit. My boss is convinced the guy just has "assburger's" and that the company would get sued if we fired him. FML
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Same thing different taste

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Assburgers don't sound very appetizing. I wouldn't fire one up either.

If that's a case he should have the guy medically evaluated. Or at least talk to the guy and try and make it so you don't sue him for a hostile work environment.

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If he means aspergers as in the form of autism then you probably could get sued. If he does have aspergers then you need to tell him that you don't like the way he is behaving and it should help.

Maybe he just has some meat between his buns

RedPillSucks 31

Remind your boss that you could sue for workplace harassment

Technically, you could sue for hostile work environment

As someone who actually has Aspergers, I'd say your coworker can go **** himself.

Just saying, It's Aspergers (ass-per-gers) it is a learning and social disorder but should not get special treatment because of it. It's not a good reason to keep someone who is harassing co workers

Point out to your boss that aspies are usually on the receiving end of the bullying, not dishing it out. We're not very good at the whole focused aggression thing. Stalking and frustrated rage maybe, but not bullying.

While ASD individuals may be on the receiving end of bullying, we also can have trouble with social cues and subtle distinctions. The co-worker may not understand the difference between "friendly teasing" and their actions, because the same words in different tones or situations can change from appropriate to not. What OP sees as insults and bullying might be what the coworker thinks is "just kidding around between friends" not understanding the relationship as OP perceives it, or the lack of professionalism involved. If there is an ASD in play, simply explaining these things should put an end to the behavior and get a sincere apology. Misreading social cues and hurting someone unintentionally is one of the things I've talked about with other spectrum dwellers and we feel horrible about it. The longer it goes on without someone saying something, the worse we feel, because it becomes a situation where we think "I shouldn't have had to have been told". That isn't the case, it's like a color blind person feeling like it's their fault they couldn't distinguish between two paint shades that weren't labeled. If we're not told, we don't have another way to gain that information. Just because people use AS as an excuse to be an ass doesn't mean that some behaviors that seem assholish can't legitimatly have Aspergers as a contributing factor. The difference is, generally, a genuine Aspergers individual will apologise, cite the condition as a possible cause, and then say they'll try to do better. Someone claiming AS as an excuse to be an asshole will say "It's not my fault I have Aspergers you jerk!" And continue the offending action.

Too true - I know I've accidentally upset at least one person with what was meant as friendly teasing. What I meant was that we don't tend to do it deliberately - though we are also vulnerable to people using our social difficulties to falsely accuse us of bullying.

TomeDr 24

Go to Human Resources. Maybe get a pocket recorder and see if you can get some of his threats recorded as proof.

Having Asperger's doesn't make you an asshole. Even if he does it's no excuse (I have Asperger's, a lot of us are pretty cool). Is there a higher-up you can go to?

Even if he has Asperger's, he has no right to treat you poorly, and your HR dept may be able to talk to him if your sipervisor won't.