Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-10-13
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Only if it suits them...
Pros: You get to work with so many different people.2 getting to know them and working together as a team. You can go to different restaurants to work at if they are struggling and this gives you the confidence that you're doing well enough at your job to be able to help other stores out. You learn a lot of different life skills whilst working at McDonald's, being a crew trainer has helped me to bind better with my colleagues and has helped me to take a more responsible role. There is nothing better than helping the customers that need extra help, whether they are disabled, have viable learning disabilities or if they are children, helping them feels so great when you can see that you have made their day better and see a smile come across their face - just from helping to carry their food over, or giving them a balloon, it's easy to make it special for each customer as long as you have an understanding of what it is they need, and I just love being able to do it!
Cons: Some management don't listen to your ideas or points of view, even though others agree that it would make things run smoother. Managers meetings shouldn't take place during the times that we always struggle (3-5), this to me seems very unprofessional as even though they are asked to help because everyone is really struggling, they tell us to "split ourselves in half" and to get on with it. We need to hire more full time workers as we always struggle between 3-5 due to not having enough staff on as we're waiting for most employees to finish sixth form, college or uni.