Server gets hired to work at a fine dining restaurant without experience, she’s about to crash out from the stress of doing everything wrong: ‘My managers seem to think I'm an idiot.’

Author image for María Cetra
María Cetra • Writer
Jun 25, 2026 2:30 PM EDT

Have you ever gotten a job without any previous experience in that industry?

Job hunting is crazy these days with all the time it takes to send an application, all the AI interviews, and the changing job market. So when you get a job, you try to be the best employee you can to avoid having to go back to the wild world of unemployment. Some people have started to lie in their resumes to get an interview, others ask for very little money as payment to be preferred over other candidates, and some other people apply to jobs they are overqualified for. In this Reddit story, this user applied for a job for which she had no experience. The weird thing is that she was hired anyway.

The first couple of weeks of every job are weird and uncomfortable. You haven't gotten the hang of it, and you don't have enough trust in anybody to be asking every little question you have. So you end up juggling try to figure everything out. This is not only crazy but also super stressful. But it's normal, we've all been there, and we can all say that you either start getting it a couple of weeks into the job or you have to give up and continue looking.

Is kind of funny how we sometimes send our resume, thinking we are not going to get an interview for that job position, but we try just in case. It is crazier when they call you for an interview, even though you are not qualified enough. And the craziest thing is if they hire you even though there are a lot better candidates for the position. This can happen for many reasons, but the important thing is not to panic. Nobody is born knowing, and if you were hired for a position you didn't deserve, it isn't the end of the world. It may take time and more effort than expected, but you are able to ace this. You have to have trust and be mindful of how to proceed. Practice makes the expert, and nobody ever really knows what they are doing. 
 

Add as a preferred
source on Google
Advertisement

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

no work experience job hunt fine dinning server life tales from your server
Scroll Down For The Next Article

Also From FAIL Blog

A Karen overreacts to a power outage, causing a huge scene and demanding food and water as she thinks it's an emergency: 'She did end up leaving a nasty review, there she ended up deleting herself after our manager replied to it.'

A Karen overreacts to a power outage, causing a huge scene and demanding food and water as she thinks it's an emergency: 'She did end up leaving a nasty review, there she ended up deleting herself after our manager replied to it.'

Trending Now

Employee stops overworking as it hasn't brought any raises, workload increases for everybody else, boss notices how much he was doing when he stopped: 'He admitted I was doing work that should have been divided between at least two roles.'

Employee stops overworking as it hasn't brought any raises, workload increases for everybody else, boss notices how much he was doing when he stopped: 'He admitted I was doing work that should have been divided between at least two roles.'

01
Manteinance employee maliciously complies with his manager's new rule and in an unexpected turn of events, his manager loves it: 'As you can tell from the title, this did not go how I was expecting'

Manteinance employee maliciously complies with his manager's new rule and in an unexpected turn of events, his manager loves it: 'As you can tell from the title, this did not go how I was expecting'

02
Chef thinks he is teaching the kitchen "Runner" a lesson over a kitchen intrusion, but he's the one who learns one thanks to the Runner's malicious compliance: 'Don't want me to do the work? Ok, then do it yourself'

Chef thinks he is teaching the kitchen "Runner" a lesson over a kitchen intrusion, but he's the one who learns one thanks to the Runner's malicious compliance: 'Don't want me to do the work? Ok, then do it yourself'

03
Employee stops volunteering extra work until manager notices, leading them to finally acknowledge and change the workload: ‘It made me invisible’

Employee stops volunteering extra work until manager notices, leading them to finally acknowledge and change the workload: ‘It made me invisible’

04
Company demands worker cancel pre-approved PTO or lose his job after sneaky managers hide vacation and sick day policy changes

Company demands worker cancel pre-approved PTO or lose his job after sneaky managers hide vacation and sick day policy changes

05
Frustrated gym user sets up an automatic response for every time he gets a late fee notification in revenge for the one time they charged him an extra $11: 'I did what anyone with too much free time and a mild interest in how systems work would do'

Frustrated gym user sets up an automatic response for every time he gets a late fee notification in revenge for the one time they charged him an extra $11: 'I did what anyone with too much free time and a mild interest in how systems work would do'

06
Advertisement