Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2021-01-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A bad back AND a badly managed company
Pros: The coworkers seemed to know the best ways to work around the asinine, awful managment.
Cons: I recieved incredibly rude backlash when i asked for training working stations i had never worked before (breakfasts, food assembly)
For most of my time there the lorry i requited to move multiple heavy boxes was missing, and the resultant strain on my back left me nearly bedridden for two years, unless incredibly drugged up with painkillers, or mind numbingly drunk.

The store owner would give one set of demands for the staff, and the floor managers would give a different set of demands and would get incredibly angry when i would listen to the owner, or vice versa the owner would get mad at me for following the managers.

The owner allowed a senile old woman to work the kitchens, I personally witnessed her have a Senior moment in the kitchens during my time there. She was allowed to wander aimlessly throuhgout the kitchens, often times bumping into people handling hot foods or handling foods coming out of the friers.

Not only that, but the management demanded we make food so rapidly that it was deeply to the detriment to our porduct at large. We were made to keep burger patties in the heating drawer for often times three to four times the length they were supposed to be sitting in there, as well as overfilling said pattie containers by nearly two times the amount that is supposed to be kept in each container, as i later learnt from friends working at other branches. 

All of this was to the detriment of not only me, but the customers as well, as i found that the constant overstocking of food made for disgusting meals for the patrons, as evidenced by the continual displeasure voiced opn every social media platform representing the Lincoln Rd establishent, as well as directly over the counter to the innocent wokrers at the counter, especially since the managment and especially the owner are 100% too blame, because the facalities are top notch there, just mismanaged to the point where having an automated burger machine wouldn't stop the owner from mismanaging it in some fashion.

As well in my initial interview when choosing my hours, i was strongarmed into picking up nearly twice the amount of hours and days i said i could take, turning what should've been a part time job into a full time war that left me physically ruined, and finaincailly devistated as the hours i was pushed into picking meant i had to pay taxis and ubers to get home, given it was so late that public transport could not take me home.