Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-11-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Toxic
Pros: The job is pretty easy (although it can get hectic and stressful) and the people I worked with were pretty cool for the most part. Easy to pick up/give away shifts if needed. This is a great first job but beware of getting stuck there. I know too many people who only wanted some quick money and ended up being promoted to manager and never leaving.
Cons: Although they advertise flexible scheduling, my manager goes out of his way to NOT give people days off they need off or to respect anyone's requests. I've seen people put in three or more notes requesting a day off months in advance and he doesn't so much as tell them he can't give it to them. He'll just put them on anyway and if they don't come in, they get written up.

The pay isn't great obviously, it's a minimum wage job. But you'd think that after working there for over three years and being promised a promotion to crew trainer that I might at least be making more than people who just started this year but you would be wrong. I make the lowest legal wage they can give me and I am a hard-working, very customer-friendly, knowledgeable employee. I'm cross-trained everywhere and I do my job well. The store manager doesn't like me for personal reasons though so why would I make a decent wage?

Very toxic environment to work at. I'm glad I've moved on.