When I worked a traditional job, I seldom called out - though I had a mix of times where working helped to keep me occupied while other times work made me worse.
My biggest problems were typically my immediate supervisor. I did better if my boss was understanding of me and what I need than I did if my boss was a tyrant. My best boss not only had me doing my job, but I was learning pieces of hers in order to free her up to do other work that I couldn't do because of red tape.
I couldn't deal with refunds or cashing up, but I could price items up for sale as they went down to the shop floor. When we got an assistant manager, she didn't like me doing that, even though my manager was happy with me continuing to do it and told me to go on with it... she also made it clear to her that the three of us were the only people who could and would go on doing this.
That assistant broke me mentally... and I would end up jumping ship rather than staying there and leaving her to niggle at me until I finished my time there.
