My daughter's first job after her drug days were at Subway. Heh. Popular place to start a new life, I guess.
Daze, I have always had trouble with jobs because back in the dinosaur days, learning disabilities were not acknowledged or helped and I tried to do everything "just like everyone else. I don't want to be different and stupid" which I thought I was. Along with so many other issues I had a non-verbal learning disability and my verbal skills were great, while my performance level skills...not so good (120 verbal IQ and 85 performance IQ). A NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD), if he has one, and maybe he does???? makes the person sound great because of their speaking skills, but then once they are forced to do tasks, they tend to forget steps and make misakes.
I can sooooooooooooo relate to your poor son. He is making the same kind of mistakes I have always made. But it IS his first day! And notes, if he can be persuaded, are very helpful. He could write the steps down so he can check to make sure he has done every task. Also, I don't know if he as visual discrimination problems, but I have trouble identifying objects and people. If I were him, I'd get a little card, make a picture of all the meats and where they are and label them on the index card until I memorized where all the different meats were. Anxiety does not help anyone who has learning differences, but, of course, just to make life interesting, they usually go hand-in-hand.
Our difficult child's tend to give up quickly. If he can hang on for maybe a month, he will be far more familiar with what to do. May take a little longer than people without LDs and that's ok.
