i just got fired from work for breaking pickles

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I am 47 and have had 40 different jobs in my adult life.

Yep, I counted them ALL.

Only been fired from two (for tardiness), and up until this current job (5 YEARS... YAHOO!), I never lasted more than 3 years.
Even in the Army, I only lasted 11 month, 2 weeks and 2 days. Just got sick of the b.s., I really liked stalking about the woods in my green uniform, carrying a gun just like my movie heroes! I also liked jumping out of planes and helicopters.

Anyway, the current employer has put up with some amazing stuff on my part, as far as my ADD/HD 'traits'.

If they put me on the work schedule for a day I don't normally work... they'll probably need to call me at home and remind me to come in... "Uh hello, Mark? Did you forget you were on the schedule to work today at 10? Could you please come in right away?"

Sometimes I'll head off to another area of the lab to do something and totally forget I was going to another area of the lab to do something. I wind up somewhere else, doing something else.

Fortunately, I'm not so wacky that I wind up seriously hurting people. This would be TOTALLY unacceptable to me.
I have caused a patient or two to have to have a test done that I didn't notice on the original order (again, usually because of something out-of-the-ordinary like a lab request form from a different place - looks totally different in design and lists of tests), which meant they had to come in and get stuck a second time.

That really bums me out and once when I felt I was to blame for a lady having to be drawn not twice.. but three times.. I got so upset that I hit my fist on a wooden cabinet door.
Since I usually don't display any anger at work, this freaked everyone out and I had to be 'counseled' about rage and anger
even though after hitting the door (out of sight of the patient), I said outloud that I was just upset with myself.
I left the lab to go hide in the bathroom and calm down.

I am amazed that this place has kept me for 5 years! Who would have thunk it?

My ADD/HD 'traits' have caused me to punch holes in walls and windows at different jobs before. Funny thing is that the two places this happened, I was responsible for paying to fix or wound up fixing, the damage myself and had no reprimands at work.

I do tend to work really hard and usually I work a bit off the clock too. So maybe I'm not such a bad investment?

For the OP... has there been an update on any new jobs for you?

I just walked out on a job last week because my aspieness didn't fit in.

They valued "fitting in" more highly than getting the work done.

It sucks. I'm still having a hard time figuring out how to explain it at my next job interview tomorrow.

well i got a new job worked there for three weeks. it is at mcdonalds . it is alright they put me in a spot were i dont have to deal with the public . and i work early shifts. which means no teenagers to piss me off. they starting yesterday put me in the mangmet training program . because i work hard show up and am polite. i hope it goes well. but being fired taught me to still look for other jobs.

Congratulations and thanks for the update!

At least the pickles come in cans there don't they?

no they come in plastic boxes . well i have a fiv in the morning shift so i am going to bed.

Unfortunately, throwing/breaking stuff is not acceptable behaviour at any workplace, no matter how well you can or can't control your emotions or reactions. The trick is to find a job that causes you the least amount of stress. My two favourite jobs ever were at the warehouse of a small, family-owned company where all I did all day was walk around putting together peoples' orders, and working third-shift at Petco unloading the truck and stocking the shelves. In both cases, although we had to work quickly enough to get everything done, the pace wasn't chaotic and there were no interruptions. There were also no customers in the store, and very few other people working.

I've been fired from a job in retail for not making eye contact and smiling enough- apparently polite words and making sure the customers' needs are met isn't enough unless you plaster on a fake smile too. My next job almost fired me for the same reason, but they decided to move me to the warehouse instead, which was a stroke of genius.

My current job is an Aspie nightmare!! ! I work at a pizza place as a prep cook and on the makeline. I like doing prep work, but I'm constantly getting interrupted by customers. When we are busy I can't take the time to top the pizzas nicely and evenly, which drives me nuts. Worst of all, the makeline is set up in the front of the store (like Subway, basically) and people will stand and STARE, watching us make the pizzas. I hate that! We also have to work in very close proximity to each other. Fortunately I work with my mom, so at least I have someone I'm comfortable talking with. Otherwise I'd have probably quit by now.

well i got mangment i am now the crew trainer . i get to train all the new people the way they should be trained . so i like my new job. and they like me at work.

But you deserved to be fired. You knew that you weren't supposed to do that. You can't use AS as an excuse to justify your own shortcomings. And you aren't going to get disability or any other government welfare benefit because you aren't disabled enough not to work.

Hyperbolic--As for references the original poster is lucky in that regard. Like any other major company, when it receives calls for references, all they will do is verify salary and dates of employment. Nothing more, nothing less. They don't want to be sued, so they will not comment on performance. So Wal-Mart won't provide negative feedback about why the company let him go.

Actually this is why a serial killer who was a nurse avoided being caught by the police for so long. In the northeastern PA/western NJ area hospitals and temp agencies kept firing this nurse, whose patients were dying under "questionable" circumstances. However, when each new company would call the previous employer, they would only receive salary information and duration of employment.