Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2014-08-06
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

It's got it's ups and downs
Pros: If you get a good store manager and get on well with the regular managers you're pretty much set. If you tell managers who like you to call you in if they need someone you'll have more shifts than you can handle. The payrate isn't as bad as everyone thinks either. Working overnights is a lot more laid back than working days, and as long as you get your tasks done then most managers don't mind what else you do.
Cons: If you get rostered outside your available work hours then you'll lose the shift, even if you're on a contract. A bad store manager can also ruin the whole experience because you're all dreading the moment they come in. Even after they're gone, the new one will often have all sorts of problems because of things done by the previous one.
Somewhere along the line someone also decided the best people to keep back for extended times (20mins-2hrs) are the overnighters who haven't slept in a day and a half, and being stuck there from 10pm-8:30am really sucks.