[Koko2]

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.

[Vossie42]

I agree that it's an incredibly inefficient way of training people. And its so frustrating when coworkers withhold vital information from you. Been there, done that. Companies do that because they don't have anything written down and don't invest the time and effort to create a policy and procedures manual for all functions in the company. Nor do they hire someone to do that if they don't have time to do it themselves. Many companies just get through the day. It's a wonder they stay in business.

Ask your supervisor if there are any written procedures.

I've been in the same situation all my working life. The only thing I can think of to do is to work for a better company. I'm going back to school now to improve my job skills to make me more attractive to better employers.

[nonightowl]

I remember the good ol' days when companies throughly trained you. They had stuff written down in a manual for Pete's sake. That was the procedure.

There was no re-inventing stuff, depending on who is training you.

They also didn't expect you to already know stuff in the first place. Like you have to be proficient in all this software I never even HEARD of.