Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2020-05-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

It is what you make of it
Pros: - Good holidays/shift management
- Can find good colleagues
- If you work hard you will be given plenty of shifts
Cons: - Low pay: I started at £6.50 and after a year moved up to £7.01
- Little respect for procedures or health and safety (managers handling raw meat, causing trip hazards injuring crew members, employees not washing their hands after returning from outside or their break)
- The job leaves you feeling disgusting because of the oil, grease and all different kinds of things you have to work with
- Often understaffed early in the mornings so it can be very tough 
- Often little training for new crew members, who then get scolded for getting things wrong
- Frequent burns (and scars as a result) as a crew member doing batch beef unless you are very careful (very hard under pressure, and burns cannot be totally avoided). There is no protective equipment for these employees, the most you get is a melt-resistant glove but that only prevents your hands coming into contact with raw meat, it doesn't prevent burns if oil falls on your hands from the top platen.
- Responsibilities given to unqualified crew members: meat safety checks had to be completed by shift managers, but often crew members would do them and the shift manager would write their own name in to make it look like they had completed it.