Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2017-01-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Completely Depends on the Crew
Pros: Free meals on every shift during break + 50% discount outside hours. Mostly flexible (they let me not work for about a month when I was at uni and they didn't expect me to come back until Christmas when I'd only started in August).
Cons: Store managers tend to be not very nice- Forced everyone to work either Christmas Eve AND Boxing day OR New Years Eve AND New Years Day. Relatively frequent nasty emails about various things.

The uniforms are hideous.

There are no pockets in the uniforms either so no phones even if it's dead. 

Waste count.

On to the big cons for me:

Training was extremely poor and there is little oversight from the managers- You are given a trainer and it's up to them to train you and if they don't there seems to be no problem for them and it's all blamed on you if things go wrong. You're also restricted to working to their schedule for the first few weeks or so, so if they're on overnights the week after you start you're basically screwed.

There is a real pack mentality- If you don't plan on being there very often you most likely won't fit in, this has made me hate my job as I don't get along with anyone since they're all full time.

I applied for (and get paid as) a Customer Care Assistant yet inextricably work as a crew member

When working in production, the people working at the counter watch over your every move whilst you prepare food if they're waiting, adding pressure.

If you like having a beard or even stubble or a moustache, you have to shave it off before every shift. If you're not clean shaven you'll be told by a manger to shave in the bathroom before starting your shift.

Everything you do has to be done in an extremely particular way- to the way that you wash your hands right down to which hand you use to place burgers on the grill (you can only use one btw).

If you're opposed to heavy lifting you will most likely still be asked to carry fairly heavy boxes of fries every 20 minutes from the freezer despite being busy yourself.

Every time you're seen resting in my restaurant and a manger sees you they'll say "time to lean, time to clean", even if there's nothing left to clean because it's 2 in the afternoon on a Wednesday. This is even further frustrating when you're watching as the other bored guy is flirting with one of the managers and has completely left his station, leaving you with 3 people's jobs to do.