Tape recording job training

[gustavofring]

This is probably more ADD-related, but I think many people on here may have similar attention issues like I have.

So I've worked for 2 nights getting job training, but I find I keep forgetting things and lose track easily. This is normal for a new job, but I really have fears for my first night ALONE. I have severe anxiety that I might screw up royally like I have in the past.

That's why I want to record the training, so that I can listen to it again at home for a few times. Do you think I can ask for this, or is it a complete no-go and my employer will find me incompetent?

 

[mikebird]

I am considering using an old school pocket speech recorder for interviews, from next week. Never used one, and no idea who gave it to me

I'd like to keep the material for primarily a lawyer, which I cannot afford, or any others: probably best not

I'll listen to the result before passing it to anyone

 

[WishingICould]

This is probably more ADD-related, but I think many people on here may have similar attention issues like I have.

So I've worked for 2 nights getting job training, but I find I keep forgetting things and lose track easily. This is normal for a new job, but I really have fears for my first night ALONE. I have severe anxiety that I might screw up royally like I have in the past.

That's why I want to record the training, so that I can listen to it again at home for a few times. Do you think I can ask for this, or is it a complete no-go and my employer will find me incompetent?

There's no harm in asking them. I don't think they'd think you were incompetent. Quite the opposite actually. It shows you care about the job and want to do it well.

 

[gustavofring]

There's no harm in asking them. I don't think they'd think you were incompetent. Quite the opposite actually. It shows you care about the job and want to do it well.

That's what I think too. But then again, some businesses (in my case a hotel) are really paranoid about confidential information (of customers) and they might say I can't record stuff for myself or they'll get in legal trouble. Say if I accidentally record someone's credit card number or something while on the job training, then I'm sure they'd rather have me not doing that. So I don't know if it's strategic. Also the person training me might feel uncomfortable being recorded.

But like you say, there's no harm in asking I guess. I do fear the answer will be NO and that will be bad news for me, because I really feel like I need to listen to explanation a lot before I memorize it.