How to succeed at a Grocery store. Feel free to comment.

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No matter what position you do you have to keep this in mind. You can't just be expected to be able to be tossed into a position and learn it on your own you will fail.

Here are some thoughts

For whicever job you are in you are going to have to have a department head or manager show you.

1.) Exactly what they want you do for each task
2.) How they want you to do it.
3.) Make sure they give you a time frame to do it in.

Any thoughts on this?

I think those would apply almost anywhere.

YYYEEAAAhhhh but alot of times what will happen is the person with AS just get tossed in there and they are expected to figure it out on their own.and they don't

I my experience, that kind of training is available on any job but the people who are doing the training will have certain assumptions about the trainee's knowledge base that are often not correct assumptions for an autistic trainee.

Sometimes those assumptions are not correct for a non-autistic trainee. I knew a guy who almost killed or disfigured everyone in the kitchen of a restaurant where I worked because the boss was telling him to put a bucket of water under the fryers (or something like that) and he thought he was being told to pour the bucket of water INTO the fryers (which were turned on and full of 300-something degree oil!) Someone else in the kitchen saw him about to pour the water in and stopped him just in time! The oil and water would have basically exploded and covered everyone in that area with 300-something degree oil.

I have found that my best bet when I get an unusual order on a job, be it in a grocery, kitchen, factory, or whatever, is to repeat back, in my own words, what I believe I have just been asked to do. I'll either get a "yes" and go do it or a "that's not what I said" and then I know I need to clarify what's being asked of me. It might frustrate management a little bit when I don't understand, but it's better than just pulling something heavy off a high shelf and accidentally killing the person next to me when it falls on them.