Need for routine at work??

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I took a long sabatical from my grocrey stocking job only to come back this summer and find it to be more than I bargined for. I'm thinking about quitting in fact - here's the deal.

Corporate in their infinite wisdom, is cutting back on everything. Their penny pinching is so rediculous that those pennies are now nanometers thick, you couldn't even measure them with a dial caliper. (Their pissed about not being listed in fortune 500 anymore...)

For starters hours are being slashed left and right, one person now has to do the average work load of two people. That bothers me quite a bit and since corporate likes to track every concieveable statistic using computers, they should some how notice that were using roughly the same hours every week while they keep cutting back, and reverse the trend, but for these people, 2+2 somehow equals 3, so I won't try to follow their logic.

However, the thing that irritates me most is that routine at work has been thrown out the window.

Last summer, a typical night for me went like this...

1. - Fill backstock to the shelves
2. - Stock your assigned quota
3. - Face what you stocked
4. - Fill sale items
5. - Clean the backroom

On thursdays we had a produce truck to unload also. But this summer, I've found that all of this has been thrown to the wind. Stock trucks come at seemingly random times. If it comes after 10pm, we have to unload which takes away time from us to stock. Last summer we had a schedule of when all the trucks would arrive and for the most part they did arrive on time. Last summer we typically enough people scheduled to cover the loads we recieved, now the number of people we have scheduled is never an appropriate number, and we've often ended up turning an 8 hour day into a 10-12 hour day.

I need routine at work, which I have not been getting. This is wearing on my sanity quite a bit. The last time I felt this way was four years ago when the store was remodeling and everything was more or less organized chaos. This was when I was running off to the bathroom and the back room to have meltdowns.

I'm talking to my boss ASAP. If things don't change, I walking!

Another reason why capitalism mostly benefits those already at the top.

all aspies need structure and routine to their environment, we try to be in charge not to be powerfull but to feel safe.....this is important for your boss to realise.......and for you to be aware off...i know you probably are, but like all aspies when you get hooked on a gripe you lose focus on the bigger picture sometimes.
lok out for aother job that has structure, sounds like the ship is sinking dude.

That is a very good point to make. So many people have a problem with us needing a routine. They think we want to have all the power and all the control, and this is not true. They think that if they themselves do not need a routine such as we do, then we couldn't possibly need it. But they don't understand that our brain is neurogically different, not bad, just different. And it is very frustrating!

I would be very frustrated in your situation too. Routine is very important to me too. I do not have very much routine in my life at the moment and I am feeling very lost because of it. Good luck and I hope you get what you need.

Kate

that's where my future username comes into place. (CurbRider)

don't let them control you. you're the driver in life. if they tell you do it their way, you say no, you tell them you gotta have a say in it. you're not going to be without a job because of them. if someone tells you to sway left away from the curb, you gotta fight back and ride the damn curb!

but are you on good terms with them? are you a good employee and an employee that's been there a while? you've worked them so they should work with you. they gotta be flexible, and not just in a way that causes you to sway off of task.