What complaints have you received from your supervisor(s)?

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I dont think I could stand to do a retail job. Being in a situation like that with strange people coming through all the time, I dont think I could ever relax or feel comfortable. In my job some people have "small-talk" with me. It really annoys me because it is really inane, boring talk about crap I couldnt care less about. However I put up with it because Im always punishing them with jokes and weird and obscure trivia. Give and take sort of situation.

PS The worst is my Mum, boy can she talk. She can go on and on and on about the weather and what she did today and how their pet dog did something funny.

Maybe her special interests are the weather and her dog.

I've heard the same as woodsman...

However, I have also heard that "I need to take responsibility..." Problem is, that yes, I do take responsibility...but they believe that if we are a "team" and anybody messes up, whether I agreed with their decision or not, I should also take responsibility...and I'm not very good with taking responsibility for other people's mistakes...

I've heard that I need to wrap tighter when I shrink wrap pallets and I need to be less stressed out when things go wrong on the assembly line. I've gotten much better at the shrink wrapping, but i'm still working on my stress. I've been told that i'm a hard worker by my lead so that made me feel a bit better.

Sometimes I feel like we are easier targets, or maybe it's just me. There are others at work who have literally been beligerant, but somehow no one pushes them. I often feel that while people don't know about my ASD or Aspieness, they do know that I can be ADD, or scatterbrained. My new top boss loves to recheck and second guess me or give me grief about not thinking if a simple non-trivial mistake happens, while NTs can make larger mistakes and it's glossed over.

I've learned a lesson in this:
If you admit or call yourself something, ADD or absent minded, others will take that as permission to ascribe that quality to you all the time. It's better to slow things down, blame others subtly by asking them to hold on or wait a second, or claim some other distraction, deflect, then finish your task. When I am in charge, my employees seemingly delight in bombarding me at the same time with about half a dozen requests. When others classify you and capitalize upon a weakness, they often unwittingly treat you in a condescending manner by acting like they are helping you or showing pity.

I don't if rest of you feel this way, but I feel like NTs are better at covering or glossing over mistakes with social maneuvering. If I do something and someone says something, I just simply defend myself, and try to speak rationally, which eventually leads to butting heads. Do I have to be perfect to receive less grief?

The one truism of most average intelligence NTs is that they are much more animal like in how they treat folks with non-PC protected weaknesses. They automatically prey upon weaknesses. IN this regard, I feel that higher thinking and ASD/Aspie folks are more evolved. They think with logic and work with the best intentions of a person's strengths and weaknesses.

Lack of objectivity (too subjective)

Not friendly

I couldn't do customer service/retail. I always got moved into 'backroom' jobs that didn't require a lot of social ability.

Yup. That's why I don't tell folks unless it's absolutely necessary.

At my last job I got all this:

I'm not courdious to the guests.
I keep digging my fingers in the food in the break room.
I am eating up all the sweets but not eating the healthy stuff. I am like pac man
I keep banging the laundry cart in the walls.
Let the guests go on the elevator first
Don't ride the elevator with the guests
No taking candy from the booths even if they say I can, tell them I am not allowed to
I need to work faster
Put a smile on my face



At my current job I have gotten:

Wear a clean uniform everyday, not the one from the day before
Use the wet floor signs before I mop
Use the closed restroom signs when I am cleaning because I will never know who will be coming in. There are freaks here in Portland
Use the tongs when I am getting food
Only play my game in the break room, no where else
My lunch break is only half hour, when it's up get back to work not go back in the break room
Don't talk about another employee at work on the phone, do it privatly, not in the locker room

Mine are fairly consistent regardless of job.

- Inability to do true multitasking. At best I can handle 3 or 4 things at once but thats with great stress and I make some errors because of it. I need to start something, FOCUS on it, finish it very quickly and do the next one. i've even timed myself and found that I finish the 4 items on the list faster 1 by one than all 4 at once.. but things dont come at me that way

- Punctuality. My sense of time is a bit.. off. If I get the chance to focus on a task an hour or two seem like a minute in my internal clock. I miss scheduled breaks and lunches almost every day. In fact, some days its my co-workers going home that tells me its time for me to go home because I feel like i've only really just been at work an hour or so.

- Too much detail in my work. I couldnt believe I was being told this. Many times its my details that save the company a ton of money and make the company a ton of money but it seems to miff off management. Guess they like to read 'sound bytes' than 3 paragraphs detailing the issue and how to fix it. $#@$ sheeple.

Note: those complaints came down from management to my supervisor. My supervisor LOVED my work.

- Stick to my own work and not other's. I guess that since I can pinpoint the multiple sources that cause an issue and its MY job to fix it, I usually end up going to other departments, asking them to do this or that so that the problem is resolved AND it does not repeat itself...end up waiting a day or two and nothing gets done so I ask them again, nothing gets done, I get frustrated and just do it myself. It irks people from other departments but the way I see it, if its their fault and its my job to fix it, they'd better get their crap together and fix it or ill step over them and fix it and submit my report including their inability to do in 4 days what I did in 5 minutes.

The really weird part is although I got complaints from this I also was appointed to cross train people from other departments into the jobs and duties and process of OTHER departments other than my own. I literally could do ANY of their jobs and do it well enough to teach them. And I never was in those departments or received training on their stuff.. I figured it all out on my own.

Some days I went to work and walk by the cubicles and in my mind i'd not see cubicles but stalls ..and in them cow-people with hoses plugged in their udders as they chewed away, thought-numb sticking only to what they were shown how to do.

moo.

Well, let's see, I really haven't had any complaints lately, but here are a few:

You don't handle stress well (true)
You need to be more aware of how what you say affects others (hello, some explicit feedback here would be nice)
You come across as rude at times (but others can be rude to me, that's ok)
You don't put in enough overtime. You only put in 5 hours a week and A. is putting in 80 hours a week. (A also ended up getting fired some time later for falsifying her timesheet. I never did get an apology)

And the killer--I have had a complaint today that you are going around socializing! and not doing your work. This is very serious, because you said yesterday you had too heavy of a workload and couldn't get all your work done on schedule so I shifted some of your tasks to other people. No, I can't tell you who made that complaint. (The situation was that I needed to deliver a lot of papers to different cubicles--deliveries I was behind on and couldn't delegate--and so I was away from my desk for about an hour. I very seldom socialize, I'm most often found on break--when I take one--with my nose in a book. In all my years there I have never, never been criticized for failure to socialize! It is only when I try to come out of my shell, that wham! I get hauled into the office. Go figure. And then people wonder why I keep to myself.)

I just got an Employee Performance Evaluation a few days ago.

My good points:

- I'm dependable. I follow the rules, have good attendance, etc.
- I'm productive. My work is done accurately in a reasonable amount of time. And I don't spend time chatting with co-workers.

Area that needs improvement:

My boss commented on how quiet I am. I've been working here for 2 years and I'm almost as quiet and reserved now as I was when I was new here. He said he didn't care whether it was because I was shy, anti-social, or what, I just needed to get more involved in the processes and products, and ask questions more. Apparently my overall knowledge of how all of the processes/products work is a bit lacking. And I never ask questions unless it is important and pertains to a current task.

Pros: That my work is of high quality.
Cons: That my work is of high quality.

A while ago I worked at a nursing home. The unit to which I was assigned had three sections, one of which was retired nuns that needed care. It was a really hard and stressful job for me, but I was determined to stay and not give up. I really liked the "sisters." One day my supervisor talked to me in her office. She said, "You have a really difficult time connecting with people." I had to agree with her. She went on to say that she had noticed that I had developed a connection with the sisters. As it turned out, one of the other nurses had requested a trade in assignments, so I got reassigned right after this. I never knew why they did that to me.

Cons:
Temper.
Too detail oriented.
Too slow.
Too perfectionistic.
Not good at hiding my dislike for people (when I dislike them).
Too sensitive.

Pros:
Uncannily good at catching mistakes.
Extremely conscientious.
Extremely thorough.
Contagiously good natured.
Uncannily quick at learning new patterns (e.g., bibliographical styles).
Good at being able to manipulate an object in 3D in my head (important when the object is too big to manipulate in reality).

At least, this is when I have gotten feedback. My main beef about most of my employers/clients is that they never give me any feedback... good or bad.

And yeah, I could never work in retail. I'd end up in jail before they had a chance to fire me.

I could not agree more.

Back when I started in my field several years ago I was criticized for being
- Too blunt- too direct- too honest
- Socially aloof
- Being too thorough/meticulous
- Talking over people's heads
- Being "too quiet"
And my perennial favorite.

WHY DON'T YOU EVER

Over the years I've adjusted to correct a lot of it, but I still always get the "too quiet, don't smile enough" thing. GOD why the hell is it your business if I smile? I have never been able to understand why others feel my emotional state is their business.

I'm usually fired without criticism or explanation.