My leads think I’m either stupid or lazy

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I go in every day and work my butt off for this company, and this is how they see Me.
I figured this would happen. Neither wanted me in their department but manger made them take me.

That sucks, but: Sometimes ya gotta listen to that feedback and try to see your work from their perspective.

Sometimes I'm working consistently, but by break, or the end of the day, I might not have gotten a lot done. Once in a while I have a particularly slow day and a boss may bring it to my attention. I know that my time perception and speed can fluctuate, so I try not to ever take personal offence to it.

Today was one of those days where I was dog-slow for a portion of it. Poor dietary choices yesterday and not enough sleep. So I sped up and stayed a half hour late to finish something in order to feel reasonably accomplished for the day, ate better, and will get more sleep.

Sometime WE feel like we're working fast and hard, and may even be genuinely fatigued from it, but others' perception is that we're slow, not getting things done, lazy etc. IF they are being honest in their feedback vs. picking on you for no good reason, then IMO it's best to take a step back and try to see things from their perspective, measure what you get done in a day/hour and see if it's a little or a lot compared to your best days or others' work. If it's a little, well, then they're justified in giving you this feedback and now you know what to work on.

Their reasoning being they claim to see me with a box of ammo then few later see me with the same box of ammo as if I don’t even know where it goes. Is what the other worker overheard them saying.

I get a lot done in 4 hours I work as well as helping the gun counter last 30 mins. The new guy they hired works 8 hour shifts 2 hours of which the stores closed(so no dealing with customers) so course he’ll get more done then me.

Course they never around when I’m working my butt off and only see me few times I’m not.
Must of seen me moving stuff around which means I have to hold ammo as I shuffle all the other boxes down so it’s in the right spot. That or struggling like everyone else to find where a box of shotgun shells that’s Visually identical to the others and same price but has one fine detail different.

New guy puts stuff in wrong place too ugh it’s so annoying. He seems to just put stuff wherever there’s an empty spot. So if stuff is alphabetical he puts t item in the b section.
Or say bunch of .40 s&w intermixed with .45acp. Means angry customer when they accidentally buy the wrong ammo or worse a injured customer who tries to shoot the wrong ammo in a gun it’s not meant for.

I should have just slacked off like most everyone else. Mangerment seems to hate the few people who actually work.

It wasn’t feedback it was two managers complaining about me in the sales floor behind my back.

Forget about them, people like that aren't even worth thinking about. Stuff them. I think it's very sad, you'd think they would have better stuff to do.

Seems only matter of time before they fire me.

Get a diagnosis, go to human resources, get work accommodation



(Effort) (efficiency) = outcome



If effort appears low, they assume you are "lazy"


If efficiency appears low, they assume you are "stupid"

Try not to let his newbie mistakes slow you down and make you look bad. Don't get caught up correcting his mistakes for free. If he makes a lot of mistakes, mention it to your lead - but be polite about it. Say something like "The new guy hasn't quite memorized where things go yet I guess, so there are a lot of things out of place. It's going to take some time to clean up. Do you want me to do it?" Something like that. That way your lead knows you're correcting his mistakes vs. taking a long time to do things just because.

It's a miscommunication

I already have diagnosis and accommodations. Nice is why he didn’t want me in his department

If they watched me for more then 2 seconds they’d see I’m working a lot. They don’t give a s**t thst most everyone else doesn’t do anything but goof off or play on the computer it’s stupid.

I’m thinking about just giving up, slacking of like thenothers.
I help every night put the guns away. There was 3 minutes between putting the long guns away and the handguns and my lead came in like what are you doing
I was like we’re about to put the hand guns away , but he thought I was just slacking off And got me .


Like ugh, maybe I will just refuse to help put them away anymore. Been doing it for month or so now. Same time every night.

Should stop helping the other departments too. I think I’ll work hard to control my ocd and not face other departments when I see it.
Also I’ll try to just leave the mistakes other guy makes and when I put ammo out I’ll just do the same and put it wherever there’s an empty spot, leave stuff stuff without tags and put stuff in other stuffs spots. Maybe I should shop the store on shift like others do so just go walk around on the other side of the store for few hours. Ugh.

I think the ultimate problem is I’m a worker not a slacker. I should just slacked off when I cam down to the floor months ago instead of working hard every day.

Keep being a worker. Stick to your principles.

This.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Even if it's unappreciated, doing things the best you can is a good thing, sly. Eventually you'll work somewhere else doing something else and you'll be in good practice by maintaining your work ethic despite the fact that others may be slackers.

I've worked like you throughout my life. I actually had someone try to physically hurt me for outworking them and making them look bad, and I told him he could go take a nap for all I care, just leave me alone and I'll get things done. He never bothered me again once he knew I was there for a workout vs. to slack off for low pay & that I wasn't going to report him for doing less.

Keep working away. It'll help when you move on and work somewhere else. Plus it's nice to know you've done a good job.