Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2017-10-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Wouldn't recommend
Pros: -Flexible scheduling for the most part.
Cons: -Almost every shift you are short-staffed, so you end up doing more work than you're supposed to and it becomes unnecessarily stressful
-Managers spend 75% of their shifts in the back on their phones and not actually doing any work so staff often end up running the floor themselves. Managers will only come out when the staff have had enough and have to tell them to come out. 
-Managers are almost all kids (18-23 years old) except for the GM so you have to deal with rude and petty management and there isn't much you can do about it. Since they're mostly kids (workers and management) you can expect attitude, but for the most part majority of the kids are good to work with. 
-They expect you to put working at McDonald's over university classes and commitments. If you were scheduled, "you have to find someone to cover it, come in yourself, or be written up".  It's ridiculous. 
-I got promoted and did not receive my pay upgrade for four months even though I was working in the position full-time and I regularly reminded management. I only received my pay increase when they offered me another promotion and I decided I would not take it unless my current pay was fixed to what it was supposed to be. It was immediately fixed after this... 
-If you are in a management position you end up having to take the work home with you. You have group chats that are going non-stop (everyone always has something or someone to complain about) and you have to be up-to-date on all that is going on. No work/life balance if you are a part of management. 

I went on leave and when I came back I couldn't stand being there anymore. It's a stressful job considering you only make minimum wage and they expect so much from the employees. The only perk of work there is the friends you make. Would only recommend as a first job to teenagers to gain experience.