Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2019-11-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Ok Starter Job
Pros: Good pay
Generally, good hours & can usually pick up shifts if you need
Managers & other employees  (most) are nice + supportive
Good on a resume/good experience 
Fairly easy job to get - easy interview process
Cons: Customers often rude/abusive
Customers valued over employees
Don't get given drink breaks (despite being supposed to) 
Often understaffed
Very high pace and stressful
Really uncomfortable uniform
Very little training - often gaps in knowledge (particularly in learning the register)
Constant new deals & specials - expected to learn in own time and are hard to keep up with
So unhygienic 
Not allowed nail polish/fake nails
Not very good if you're sick - not understanding, try to force you to work anyway, try to force casuals to bring doctors note (which isn't legal) 
Equipment constantly malfunctioning - always have to explain to customers that X isn't working (and deal with any resulting anger) 
Terrible benefits - food is 50% off 30 mins before/after shift and 25% the rest of the time. That's it. You don't even get a free meal during meal break on really long shifts.
Progression from fries/front counter to drive thru is pretty slow (6 months average)