Why do jobs make me go crazy?

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So I started a new job at the end of February, its in the packaging department working the assembly line for an educational book supply company. I get a stack of pick lists and matching labels and walk around labeled pallets picking the order from bottom to top, as I was trained to do. I collect the different materials and put them on the assembly line. I have to work with a scanner person, who scans the labels and boxes and books and put them into a box for shipment. I work at night 40 hours a week.

They move us around to different work stations as the boxes have to go out in sequential order and they have deadlines. So it is a constant flow of personnel and material each day.

One of the problems I am encountering is that the pallets that have the material we put in boxes are also supposed to be in sequential order. People in another department put these books on the pallets and they are not always correctly in order. So after each level on the pallet, I have to look to see if it is in sequential order before I put it on the line. It is the part of the scanners job to verify the order is in sequentially correct before it is scanned or the scanner locks up and the lead person has to come and unlock it, which takes time. We have a quota each day of scans and boxes.

My problem is the scanner guy always think I cant pick the order correctly. I have like 5 or 6 people come by yesterday to see if I am picking correctly. Each time, I show them what I'm doing and explain that the pallets are messed up. It's driving me nuts. They ask me why I am sweating so much, I have diabetes and anxiety and I shake and sweat when encountering new people and environments sometimes. My sensory sensitivity is such that I am almost empathic and can go into overload if I'm not careful. I end up laughing nervously all the time and people stay away from me because they think I'm cracking up.

I take the bus to work, it takes me 3 hours to get there and 3 back. I get 10.45 an hour to put up this nonsense. After child support I'm left with 400 or 500 bucks every two weeks. Is it really worth it? I've always worked but it seems it is sucking the life out of me.

Between discrete events ordered sequentially in time,

mojo123

I'm a picker too, This is my first job in a year or so. It seems like no one at my job can figure out when the pallets are out of order or the parts on the shelf are out of order. I always have people double check my work but it doesn't bother me anymore because I figure they are just wasting their own time. I only work part time anyway.

Also there are a lot of hispanic people that work there. I don't look hispanic so they don't know I speak spanish and I always hear them talk about me right in front of me. I think I'll wear my ipod today.

Frankly, I'd lodge a grievance with the supervisor (or whatever the right term is for what you need to do here) over other people NOT following procedure and properly loading the pallet. It's not just making you work harder, but it's costing the company productivity because others are not doing their job correctly. The supervisors on each shift should be ensuring that every person loading pallets does it the correct way.

I understand the frustration, my first job when I left school was in a personnel department with lots and lots of filing. When I had to place new documents into the files in date order I would find that the previous 5 years of documents were all out of order so I would take everything out and refile it all.

An easy 20 second job would become a 20+ minute job because people were lazy.
I agree that you should mention your problem to a supervisor.

Ask to work with another scanner person. Then, if the problem persists, it is you. If it doesn't occur (which I'm inclined to think), then it's the scanner.

Remember autism is theorized to be a hyper RATIONAL brain orientation. Mistakes in order and organization aren't part of being rational. If you need to, point out to your supervisor that you have ASD and therefore, you are less likely to make such mistakes. That's right, tell them you're more intelligent, you deserve the right to defend yourself.