Yikes! Life in the real world: a giant game of Whac-A-Mole?!

The first day on the job is a bit like a game of Whac-A-Mole would be, if you had to play the hardest level imaginable and you'd never played before. So much information comes at you all at once, and there's so much to absorb that it's quite easy to get overwhelmed. I realized rather quickly that if I was going to be successful as an employee, I would have to do something a little different. So that night, I took home a menu and spent the next several days memorizing it. After that, I memorized the layout of the make-table (that's where we keep all of the toppings for the pizzas, and where we assemble them). I made myself a diagram, and wrote up a ton of notes. I think my coworkers were laughing at me. But I really want to do well in this job. If I have to do a little bit more than the average bear these first couple of months, just to get a feel for what it's like to actually have a job, that's not a bad thing is it?