Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-03-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Honestly made me hate life.
Pros: Flexible hours I guess? The few people you worked with most of the time you got to know fairly well.
Cons: Where do I even start. It was my first job and I'm never going back. 

--First of all, communication was awful. Management was constantly telling me how to do the same task a different way almost every single shift. One of them literally mocked me whenever I asked a question to clarify something--where does this part of an order go, who ordered what, has a part of an order gone out yet, etc. 

-Management. The shifts and "higher up" staff always stuck the regular employees doing the tasks nobody wanted to do. They picked what they wanted to do every day and never gave anyone else a chance and barely trained anyone for more than one task. They even stopped training their newest hires on till and just told them to go on it without knowing what they were doing. 

--Hours might be flexible, but there's no pressure on the shift managers to get schedules up on time and update availability when it needs updating. One shift outright refused to update my availability. First excuse was that the sheet was missing and had me fill out another, second was that he forgot, and when I approached him and told him I needed it changed because of schoolwork, he told me he would not change it because it was "inconvenient" and he would fire me if I didn't take the hours he was giving me--which were becoming hours I was never even available to work from the beginning. 

--Pay. I started off at minimum wage. After six month I got a 15 cent raise. Not much, I realize after going someplace else, but something. After that, minimum wage increased and we were all to have our pay adjusted accordingly. Instead, it was around the same time I was to have another 6 month raise. So they gave me that instead, and I was 15 cents short of what I should have been. Not much, but something. 

--Favoritism. Honestly as childish as it sounds, there was favoritism among everyone. The management treated anyone who worked less than 16 hours a weak like dirt with the exceptional few. 

--Lack of task rotation. I have horrible anxiety which causes me to feel very sick if I have to stand in one place for a long time. The first breakfast shift they had me go on fries for 3 hours straight and when I asked if I could go on at least front till for a while to rest as I felt like i was going to throw up, they refused. 

--And of course, customers. You're expected from customers that if you work at mcdonald's you must be a drop out out a kid that doesn't know anything and get disrespected left and right. Of course, this will happen at any job, but there's a special kind of abuse you get from mcdonald's and it is restless and unyielding.