Picture yourself as a neurodivergent reporter for a news company in a Kansas City conference room in 1999. WWE wrestler Owen Hart has just fallen to his death in Kansas City and you are listening to a reporter ask answers out of the WWE owner, Vince McMahon. Rather than answering the question in a professional manner, he instead responds that he resents that person’s tone of voice to which the reporter calls it out as sarcasm.
Now as you listen, you might be asking yourself…”Why would he respond like that to someone? Someone has died under tragic circumstances and that is not the right way to respond to a basic question.” Yes, looking at this scenario, someone in a leadership role should not respond in such a manner because the reporter is doing a paid job and the public wants to know the truth about what happened to Owen Hart.
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Now, of course, I am not into professional wrestling, but that’s besides the point. The fact of the matter is that Vince McMahon (someone who I am not a big fan of) sets an example of what not to do in a professional environment. The way he speaks to the reporter is a representation of poor professionalism and it doesn’t matter what position you hold in a professional environment, you are to hold yourself to as high a standard as possible without question.
And furthermore, this is something that someone who is neurodiverse could respond to their boss or supervisor and that it would result in that person being fired from said job. When it comes to holding onto a job, we are to put in some restraint into our bodies because one false move could result in us losing something we have worked into obtaining.
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A living example of this was in early 2022, when we had a neurodiverse employee working at my day job as a cart pusher and he was deeply insistent on doing things his way and not on the rules of the business. Naturally, he didn’t stay long, of course. But he did have that Vince McMahon in him that allowed him to claim he would do whatever he want without any consequences.
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Of course, I’ve yet to see anyone I know who looked up to Vince McMahon as an inspiration for how they were to act in a workplace environment. There are plenty of false idols out there in the world these days and Vince McMahon deserves to be amongst them.
As I have said many times, money and fame can only get you so far in life, but it’s having that human side that can mean the difference between keeping a job and losing a job. It’s all about having that self-control and letting go of that ego you have inside of you and while job coaches can help someone get a job, they can’t forcefully pull out what Vince McMahon had in that conference room in Kansas City in 1999.
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Catch you all later!!
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