Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2019-08-21
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Absurd scheduling
Pros: The place is fairly well organized and clean, the people are generally nice (except for the senior managers), the training is adequate.
Cons: The scheduling. The franchise I am working as has some of the worst scheduling practices I've ever seen. Just this week they posted the schedule for Monday to Sunday on Saturday, approximately 36 hours before it started. In addition, there is no website on which to view one's schedule, it is only posted on a piece of paper in the office. This means that if you have a shift on Monday, but not on the previous 2 days, you would need to go to the store on your day off to see the schedule. Even then they couldn't get it right. 

Due to another scheduling error the previous week, I was called in on a day I had been told I didn't work, on which I had made plans. So I called the scheduling manager to ask for clarification, who then texted me my schedule for the next week, which of course they got wrong as well.

When I went in on Wednesday, I was told that I was actually scheduled on Thursday, and when I showed them the text from the manager who told me to come on Wednesday, they told me I should've checked the schedule anyway and sent me home.

I have only been working at this restaurant for a few weeks and already there have been numerous scheduling errors, last minute changes, miscommunications, and schedules regularly posted within a couple of days of when they start.

If you want to have any kind of social life, or have another job, or need to arrange childcare, stay away from the McDonalds in Woodinville, Washington and any others owned by that franchise.