STOOOOPID mistakes at work!!!! | ADHD Information
I used to work at a pizza place answering phones,making pizzas etc. , and it's always complete chaos on busy nights. There was *never* a night when things didn't get screwed up. Occasionally you hire some robot man who never makes mistakes, but as people usually only work delivery for a few months and robot men can usually get better jobs quickly, you pretty much have to count on chaos.I've posted on this before, but today was stressful and I need release so here goes.
I just can't seem to not screw up at my job. I work at a sushi delivery place. It's a small company and I work directly under the owner, so you can imagine how much he actually cares about every last thing I do.
Yesterday I switched some orders around when it was incredibly busy. Had to drive back and forth and waste time and get chewed out by many, many people, including my boss, who thinks I don't understand that customers want their food on time. He gives me basically the same lecture, at different volumes, every time. It's to the point where I don't think he'll want me back for next summer.
Today I forgot my printout/receipt thingy that you're supposed to bring with you on deliveries. I had actually memorized the address and room number by looking at the printout ONCE---the incomplete miracles of Adderall---and so I got the guy his food but had no receipt for him. I get back to the restaurant and my boss says he's going to charge me 5 bucks next time I go without a receipt. He stands to make a LOT of pocket money off of me.
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There were several times in my pizza career, where the delivery pizzas would be piling up, only to find that the driver quit in the middle of his previous delivery lol!! Complete meltdowns happen where you just say to people, we really can't deliver pizzas tonight, or delivery time is running about 3 hours.Maybe you could make up your own check off list so you wouldn't leave with out everything you need....
Good luck
The older I get, the dumber I seem.My boss told me that I'm not a good multi tasker. Before I would have tried harder, but now I realized that I don't want to be one. I really can only do one thing at a time. Seems a bit lazy, doesn't it? [/QUOTE]
I can SOOO relate. Every year I keep saying to myself - aren't I suppose to feel smarter - wiser. Yet, I often feel the opposite. Between my adhd, my perimenopause and general anxiety over stuff - well, let's just say I feel like a yo-yo of late and a level day would be such a welcome surprise. You took the very thoughts out of my mind - thank you.
I can totally relate. I didn't realize that I couldn't file until I started my current job. I've been called a space-cadet, flighty and spacey. I staple pages together that can't even remember how I would do that and I've forgotten people I was helping 5 seconds after I told them I'd get something. I'm not sure how I got this far in life (35) but it is a strange thing to feel that I'm getting flakier as I age.
I know I had an ADHD problem in high school but I'm sure everyone just chalked my underachieving to lack of motivation. And being a girl, no one paid a whole lot of attention. I've gotten through two bachelor's degrees, a master's degree and part of a PhD without ever reading a textbook. It wasn't until I was doing all this research in an effort to help my son that I realized that I'm exactly like him. It was Delivered from Distraction that opened my eyes (made me cry). So, I'm taking Concerta and it is helping tremendously at work. I still make mistakes at times and am flighty but I'm much more able to focus, live in the moment and not feel discontent. I never knew that my years and years of discontent was a manifestation of ADHD.
Hang in there. I think the checklist is a good idea. I have to go over everything I'm stapling and filing three different times just to make sure I get it right. But, I'm a good worker and even if it takes a little longer to go over it, it pays off in the long run. Besides, in my ADHD fashion, I still work faster than anyone in my office. :)
dude, dont even trip. i forget to ask people to sign thier receipts when the pay with a credit card, thus i am forced to forge dozens of signatures which could potentialy land me in some deep deep sh*t. whats more is today my boss made a subliminal comment about how the customers all seem to have the same handwriting. in other words, im f**ked. addlad45638590.9566319444edieb,
I don't mean to go off topic but you sound like me. Have you ever thought about taking any med. for the anxiety? I take lexapro and it's amazing how it's helped me. I hardly ever need to take my Adderal anymore. I feel much more calm and in control. You really don't have to live feeling that way. I hope you find some relief! Take care 
Oh boy, do I know what you are going through.
I work at General Motors as a planner/scheduler for an engine production line. When I screw up - and I do - it costs 10s of thousands to 100s of thousands of dollars. One time I was in such a hurry that didn't check my work and I loaded to the production line the wrong engine for over 300 pieces. Since most engines are similar you can rebuild them to be another and save yourself (mostly) but this was a very specific engine that actually had no orders out there from the customer. At the end of the model year our department was charged the 0,000 loss we had to take. **GULP** That is just the begining!
Needless to say I got a good talking to. Fortunately/unfortunately I have the ability, though programming, to ensure that these problems never happen again. When I do screw up, I make sure that when I go back to my boss to tell them what happened, that I end the confession with a solution to ensure that it doesn't happen again. This usually satisfys them and has actually worked to my advantage: if there is a frail process that they are worried about, they give it to me so I can work though it, screw it up and then fix it.
Hi All! I just happened upon this site today. I just received a compliment by my bosses for "doing much better than before" and then it struck me: I didn't realize that I had needed to improve! They said I had been a bit flighty. Being "non-flighty" was never mentioned as a job requirement. So I entered a search for "acting flighty" so I would know how I was acting and up popped ADD and ADHD.
That makes sense to me now. I was diagnosed in my mid 40's. Our office was reorganized so that the cubicles were smaller and closer. I started to have behaviour problems like the ones I should have had in the 3rd grade! The older I get, the dumber I seem. In fact, if I acted like this when I first started working, I would have been bumped out. So it is lucky that I have 26 years in already, but this last 4 or 5 years left are hard time!
I recognized myself while reading Women with ADD. It cleared up a lot of questions for me. I was/am messy, slow, distractable. The two people I seem to have the most trouble with this are my mother and my husband. Both gave me way too much credit: they both thought I was deliberately being messy, slow, distractable to bother them. I think both of them are narcissist. You all know that they had nothing to do with my actions, it is just the way I am. Now my boss is trying to get me organized and tidy...so many have tried, so many have failed. I don't know why I am of such interest to them. I don't care what they do.
Adderal seems to work the best for me. It actual makes me feel like I have a reason to live and sometimes the only way I will get out of bed. Not everyone enjoys being around me when I am so awake, but I can do without others easily. Strattera makes me have steamy chills.
Mikeyboy: Try just slowing down a little bit. You are probably moving way faster at your slow pace than the others are. I think that we ADD'rs try to do everything we think of at once. My boss told me that I'm not a good multi tasker. Before I would have tried harder, but now I realized that I don't want to be one. I really can only do one thing at a time. Seems a bit lazy, doesn't it?
Oh Mikeyboy, boy can I relate! I am the Phoebe of waitresses! I am the Linda (Becker) of Aoffice workers! I am just practically unemployable.But, yes....thanks to Adderall, I am employed (knock knock knock on wood). It's the miracle drug, but for some reason I cannot seem to get anywhere on time! WAAAAAAAAAH!