Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2016-05-19
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Worst Place I've Ever Worked
Pros: It's a young staff on which sometimes means you can find more of a connection with your fellow workers.

Free meal of your choosing with every shift.

TV in the staffroom.

Some degree of flexibility to the hours.
Cons: The food you are serving is crap. There's no denying it. It is rubbish serving something to the public that you yourself don't believe in. Pushing already obese customers into buying more and more food at a larger size than they need or really wanted is soul destroying, especially to fat kids. It's not their fault. The food is so cheap it makes it easy to buy a lot of it at a low price, which sure for the occassional treat but you see people come in here 2 and 3 times a day.

The store is still run in a rather sexist manner. Girls are often shoved on tills while boys prepare the food. Only girls that have worked there for a much longer period of time will be trained in the kitchen.

However, we are still expected to handle fryers and box fries, picking up burns and small cuts with no training. 

Kitchen has no space to breathe never mind move.

Store was always overstaffed or understaffed, and the working area was so small you were constantly barging into people which cause tension between staff. 

Work hours were irregular, being put on till half 11 at night and getting up at 6 the following morning for classes was tough.

Management looked at crew members as totally inferior and were obnoxious towards us, obsessed with wielding the tiny bit of power they had over you.

Recieved zero training at all, learned everything from already over worked crew members and nothing from managers or crew trainers.

Toilets, which were our changing rooms, constantly broke and there was no space to put your bag or sit for your break.

Breaks were given periodically, I was usually bugging the mangager to get my break way after it was due after hours of standing in a tiny drive through box on a Saturday night. Not all stores have the same layout in the kitchens - new building is really spacious but the McDonalds I worked in was horrifically small.