AIBU to think dismissal during probation was unfair given autism adjustments?

I employ three people, all with degrees, two of the three have significant adjustments, all of which were expensive but worth it 100X over for the amazing colleagues I have.

for the size of my business, this thread and some of your others indicate I wouldn’t be able to afford the manpower of assistance you’ve needed over 9 months in order to do the work, I would literally have to turn down contracts to give this amount of support, which in my book doesn’t come under reasonable adjustments for someone who is a graduate.

it wasn’t a good fit, something will be, that’s the point of probation.

Im not sure the adjustments the OP requested would be considered reasonable in a fast-paced high performance environment, where part of what you're paid the high salary for is being able to cope with tight deadlines and having the initiative to figure stuff out for yourself.

@SereneRoseRobin .
Go and work with animals.
You will have a better time.

Go somewhere else.
Aint worth the stress.

"The difficult part is that the concerns raised about me seemed mainly to focus on communication style, professional behaviour, asking for clarification, Teams messages, and quality assurance under pressure — rather than on whether I could actually do the analytical work."

They're all important aspects though OP.

Yeah but employing any grad can have a positive impact on business - if an employer is choosing between two employees and one requires lots of adjustments that are going to cost resource time to implement, and the otger grad can work to the same standard without needing those adjustments its a bit obvious which one the business is going to wantbto hire isnt it.

Its really naive to imagine that businesses run for profit will happily put in place these sorts of adjustments out of the goodness of their hearts.

They'll only be so willing if the grad requiring the adjustments puts out better work than everyone else so that the adjustments are worth the effort the company has to go to, to make them

The recruitment teams for graduate early careers at the “big four” are usually outstanding.
Something has gone wrong here

It sounds like you needed A LOT of extra support & most workplaces just don’t have the capacity or time for that. They gave you a chance but it didn’t work out. You have to move on.

The recruitment team are not gods - they are not all seeing and all knowing. Recruitment is not perfect and isn't that a pain in the arse for everyone involved. You get people who are brilliant at interviews but pretty awful at the job and you get people who are poor at interview and amazing at the job - it was ever thus - recruitment is imperfect - no one screwed up.

All autistic people are not the same.

It’s very tough dealing with the rejection. Jobs don’t really care about your extra needs, they’ll become frustrated when things aren’t going smoothly. Start searching and a new role, maybe enter at the lowest end of the role and build up your confidence level.

I think that's really useful and valuable feedback for the OP given your own diagnosis @Overthebow

There's a considerable gap between 'I'm autistic' and 'Do everything for me because I'm helpless'.

This is the third thread the OP has started about this.

I remember reading something a while ago that MI5 employ a lot of neurodivergent staff because of strengths in analytics and pattern recognition. I can't find the actual article but happened across this instead

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp954ep948lo

She can do both

What’s the aim then? To sue because she didn’t pass probation for a job she can’t do?

The recruitment team failed. The OP was transparent.

The OP needs to focus their energies on getting a job, not getting into a dispute.

You took a role that is inherently complex, open ended, time critical and invariably without coaching, space, handholding and careful walking through every little step.

Your 'examples' sound very much like you were expecting to be handed a perfect template, perfect data, a step by step how to guide and to be able to pretty much hit refresh for your work to be done. Plus lots of praise when you did that. No data analyst or manager is going to have time to do that - if they did, they wouldn't need another analyst.

Data entry might be a better place to start, as you could then get a grip upon the workings of a business, how their systems work and integrate (or don't), how the daily functions are reflected in data and then, along with some experience in effective and diplomatic communication and a better employment record, you might be in a position after some decent experience to think again.

ETA: one of the key abilities is to be able to work out from the 2am garbled rantings of management put through Chat GPT (and still not making much sense) what they think they want, what they think they mean and then translating it into what they actually want and mean, working out how you can get that information and transform it into something they have a chance of vaguely understanding so they can come across as though they actually know what they're talking about in meetings - even if they really, really don't. You're paid to be the bulletproof, smart person in the room, not the pet sympathy case.

I had raised the need for clear written instructions, defined objectives, examples of similar work, timelines, and timely/direct feedback.

Oh gosh, this isn't "reasonable adjustment", it's nth degree hand holding which companies just don't have time for. Consultancy has too many variables for the kind of help you require. I think if you need that kind of adjustment, you might be better finding a more structured job that you can learn and then easily fly solo. There's one out there for you, but this isn't the one.

Completely agree with this, particularly in analysis. If I can provide structured written instructions and previous examples, then AI can do it. The reason to pay a human is to deal with uncertainty, ambiguity, and the unasked questions.

Thats no longer the aim at this point.

That’s not how apologies work.
“hey colleague, I’m sorry I recorded the call without asking you for permission - I wanted to make a transcript for my own benefit”

Sometimes people just don't fit in a workplace. It isn't necessarily their fault but if for example they thrive on clear processes and good systems, and the workplace is relying on employees' experience and lurches from one crisis to the next, it's not a good fit. So in these cases the employee needs to go and find another workplace that suits them better.

They won't get you your job back though.