I've found that at (most) of the places that I've worked over the years, that there's an immense lack of empathy for employees from the employers or the management at said places. Especially for people like myself who are neurodivergent and may need a little extra time, reinforcement, and repetition to learn everything that needs to be learned in order to do well I the company. It always seems as though that they only give you a certain amount of time or chances before they just give up on you or just become impatient with training/coaching you.
Right now, I work at a restaurant as a cashier and runner/busser. There are a LOT of tasks that need to be done every day and most of these tasks are supposed to be done at the same time. Its a lot of information that gets thrown at you all at once and for someone like me who has diagnosed ADHD since childhood it can get very overwhelming for me to fulfill all of the necessary tasks in a “timely” manner. I get that the restaurant needs to function efficiently and that customers need to be served I the way they want to be served but when I'm trying my best and working my ass off everyday and all the managers can do is tell me that I need to “do better” instead of telling me the things I'm actually doing a good job at it makes me feel unappreciated and like nothing I ever do will ever be enough for them.
Today (and other days) I was told that “I've worked there long enough to know xyz things” and that I needed to “just figure it out” when I asked how I could improve at doing said xyz things. This makes me so confused because aren't managers supposed to train you properly? Isn't that part of what their entire job entails? Is to care about their employees and cater to their needs? Because after all, it IS the employees that keep the company running at the end of the day. I just feel like the constructive criticism that I'm being given is so lack luster and lacks a lot of empathy to the point where I just feel like I'm some.sort of robot for them and not like a human being with unique skills (and flaws for that matter).
I was also told by another coworker that the restaurant used to be very different from how it's run now and the conditions used to be so much better for the employees but after the change in management, everything changed and a lot of people ended up leaving because of the way that they were being treated. So maybe since I'm newer to the company I'm just getting the brunt of the negative changes that have happened before I started working there.
I just wish that the corporate world wasn't so cold and unempathetic towards their employees and were more understanding of neurodivergentcies and how they could better treat those people so that way they could perform to the best of their abilities and truly flourish in the company. I honestly feel as though that's why there's such a high turnover rate at a lot of jobs nowadays and why employees are finally putting their foot down and are refusing to be treated like puppets. If anyone has any advice for me feel free to sound off in the comments. I'd love to hear other people's perspective of this. Thanks for letting me vent on here. I hope everyone who reads this has a wonderful day.