For restaurant server jobs especially that’s a big reason they really only want to hire people that have tons of experience. That shit is really hard work, not intuitive at all, and especially for my introvert ass, very mentally exhausting, as well as physically draining. Most restaurants I worked at never had any sort of training plan, they just double up the new person with whoever has a slow section and wing it. It’s also not the type of job that incentivizes doubling people up on a shift, due to tips, which I think negatively affects any training program. Pairing someone up with a senior employee has been the fastest onboarding in my experience.

Even at my current job I only get a month, maybe 6 weeks if I’m lucky, to have someone shadow me on the job and get direct training before they’re expected to be pulling shifts alone. And my phone is blowing up for months with questions when they first start solo, so I know that time should be extended.

[–] pixelghost@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

It's extremely rough. I had 4 years of serving experience at the time, had served in a variety of settings from nice sushi restaurants to dive bars. They fired me because of specific niche little things that their establishment specifically does a certain way, which makes it all the more frustrating.