Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2021-03-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

DDV Franchise- Gets worse over time- wouldn't reccomend
Pros: Can get shifts covered easily. 
Make good friends.
Free food on break.
Great for if you're a student, flexible around uni term time. 
Free uniform but not shoes. 
Music in the restaurant. 
Paid slightly over minimum wage.
Parking (kinda).
Employee discount on meals. 
Free wifi on break.
Used to have summer events and Christmas parties.
Cons: You can only get promoted if you're best friends with hierarchy or date them. 
All the managers contradict each other and don't follow proper hygiene safety regulations.
No healthy options for break.
You get your schedule on Thursday evening for the following monday (short notice) and sometimes it goes up late or gets changed without notice. 
Communication is abysmal. 
Seems weird all the business managers are male and the HR team are all women. 
One of the main company values is 'Be You' but they tell individuals- 'you don't have the face for management'.
Managers constantly harass you over FB messenger on your day off and beg you to come in because they haven't scheduled enough staff. 
Training is poor and when new procedures come into place, which happened regularly, it isn't properly communicated to the team and you get told off for not following the procedure.
Low staff morale. 
Hierarchy stated 'safety before speed' during covid but management shout at you to hurry up. 
Rules suggest to wash hands every 30 minutes but its unrealistic, and crew feel unsafe.
Holiday pay (new) procedures weren't clearly explained to all staff and lots of staff had this money taken off them.
When hierarchy come to the store, it acts as a scare tactic and weirdly there will be way to many crew in the building and no one will be allowed to go on break. I dont think hierarchy see the issues. 
When a crew member complained of covid symptoms, they were sent home immediately but the store continued to operate until midnight when they would do a deep clean.
As time goes on it gets considerably worse.
Uniform trousers are so uncomfortable and most recently, I heard a manager tell a crew member to sew up a hole instead of ordering new ones.