One thing I've noticed over the years working for various employers is that they'll almost exclusively expect you to learn the job in a piecemeal fashion, getting little morsels of information, such as product codes, times that certain procedures are required, recording of data, randomly throughout the course of the workday. And my tinnitus doesn't help.

This totally is not my way of learning things. I learn best by being given a paper with all of the information presented as a whole, studying it, and then learning hands on with the paper available for review. Being bombarded with tidbits of information on my new job is making it difficult to quickly learn it. I've scribbled some of my own notes on a piece of scratch paper, but I'd just rather they gave me the information altogether before starting the actual job. It seems like a lot of worker hours wasted on re-inventing the wheel so to speak.

And if you get the wrong coworker as your trainer, they may purposely withhold information to make the process even more difficult than necessary.