Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2017-10-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Crew Member/ Stockroom (Ireland)
Pros: Consistent working hours if you are good.
Managers are well liked and usually drawn from staff so relations are usually good.
Offer McDonalds meals, (at the expense of wage increase.)
Good for those with no working experience or those recently immigrating to the country. Learned a lot of Polish.
Good experience and can help with those hard interview questions further down the line.
You'll meet people you otherwise would not.
There's a discount card too.
Cons: During bank holidays or unsociable hours, there was no incentive to work as there was a wage increase of one-eighth.
In the particular restaurant I worked at, they had one way doors, which if one was bringing rubbish out the back, was supposed to close behind him, thus having to walk to the front of the restaurant regardless of weather. Leaving these open, resulted in the area manager reducing my supposed wage increased for a year of genuine hard work (And I'm not just saying that). 

I began on 9 euro per hour and three years later, I was on 9 euro and 15 cent per hour.

Those who wished to rise in the management would often get paid for their work at their old rate for a number of months, they would not be back paid. 

Can be extremely stressful at times, hours can be anything from 6 or 7 a.m. all the way up to 2 or 3 a.m.

There can be some managers who genuinely do not add anything to the team and blame those below them for their lack of competence.

Those who are not native to the country, were rarely allowed to go home for Christmas or New Years.