Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-11-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Fun Staff, Hard Work, Low Pay
Pros: - Staff are lively and fun
- Free food during shifts (including promotional items!)
- Some of the shift managers are friendly
- Everything is easy to learn (it's being forced to multi-task that makes it so hard)
Cons: - LONG shifts - time goes by so slowly
- Low salary. Although I'm only 19, I only get £5.30 an hour, which is slap-bang minimum wage now for 18-20 year olds 
- You get very little respect from customers, regardless of how friendly you are
- Some managers are just the worst. McDonald's have their own policy regarding breaks that they don't tell you about, in which managers can force breaks on you at any time if you've worked an hour. So often I've done at least a 1-10 shift and forced to take my break at 2/half 2 and then work constantly for over seven hours or more without even getting to sit down! This was truly appalling.
- There is basically no training, and I started two months ago when their new training programme kicked in. You need to learn quickly and if you get anything wrong, you get shouted at and chastised, even if it might be your first time doing it.