Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2020-03-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

It's alright, I mean it's fast food what can you expect...
Pros: Getting paid every 2 weeks is sweeeeeeeeet

It's a great job to have when you're young, I started at 16 and I worked with my friends from secondary school which was really fun. It's a very social environment so expect to make a lot of friends (if you don't just transfer to the next one 5 minutes away). I’ve made so many lifelong friends so I am forever grateful for that.

The company is forced at least once a year to do some sort of team building events which can be cool

It can be flexible in terms of the amount of hours you can do, you can book a lot of time off. I worked in Mc Donalds from college to university because of how easy it was to take term time off and transfer from my store to a store in my university city whenever I needed the money.

VERY easy to progress. I went from Crew Member to Crew Trainer (supervisor) in under a year. If you work well on shift and understand how to work all the stations you can progress easily. It is definitely worth it I went from £4.35 an hour (Under 18s wage) to £7.30 so it made all the difference. They are also not shy of having young managers, I've known many managers that are 19/20 so the leadership opportunities are great.

Free food on shift, my store had a points system for a while which limited the food we took it just depends where you are

Unlimited soft drinks on shift - I developed a Fanta addiction which was fun :)

You can work as much as you want. I used to work 15 hour shifts sometimes just to rack up the money, also most stores have shifts all day (even if they are not a 24 hour store).
Cons: I don’t even know where to begin lol, I will say as a disclaimer it sounds like the job is unbearable, it is not that bad. Above all it’s a food/hospitality job so it's not really supposed to be exciting, I am only going in on the company because I worked that job for 5 years so it wore me out by the end of it all

I’ll start off with the actual job itself. It is the most tedious and mind-numbing job I have ever done in my life. Once you get put on a station that you are good at, managers love to put you there to ensure the shift runs smoothly (fair enough) however, this can be unlucky if you are good at the more ‘boring’ tasks. I’ve known people to have worked on one station for years. I will take one example Window 1 (the payment window on drive thru) imagine you were just taking payment from customers for 40 hours a week for years and that’s it.

If you’ve already worked in hospitality / food / retail you already know about the customers, I don’t need to write an essay on that. Not all of them are bad but there are the few that are verbally or physically abusive. It’s also not the fault of the company either it's just the crowd it attracts.

Weird one, but my senses are always on complete overload after a shift. It is unbearably bright in the store, everything makes a noise, buttons / timers need to be pushed every second and the customers come at crazy hours in the morning so you are always making or packing food. When I came home it would be impossible to shut off, I would hear beeping in my sleep and I would dream about dressing cheeseburgers. If you work there I would recommend not doing too many hours wherever possible and maybe some meditation before bed to try and wind down.

People get too many second chances, there have been racist / sexist / homophobic remarks thrown around the store these employees usually get a ‘Final Written Warning’. But I’ve seen people get fired for continuously being late or not showing up to a shift ....but that's none of my business :)

45 minute breaks don’t cut it for me personally. It would be nice to have an hour. Also they give smokers extra breaks which I never found fair, I always took mine during my break it's not that hard