Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2019-02-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Niagara Area McDonald's
Pros: Constant turnover means getting hired is fairly easy.
Flexible schedule, will keep you as an employee even if you only work seasonally.
Store management will work with you if there are problems.
Process for firing ensures no sudden lay-offs.
Discount on food.
Cons: Dendres Corp., the owner and managing body for nearly all stores in the Niagara region, is not great to work under.
Equipment is old, slow to be repaired, and only updated when it finally fails completely.
It has taken days for things like air conditioning (during hot and humid summer), plumbing (toilet leaks in employee bathroom ignored until minor flooding) and even the soft serve machine to be repaired.
A non-standard (for McDonald's Canada) practice of forcing employees through a certain skills path prevents new employees from being placed according to existing skills or experience -- forcing everyone to start as cashier and then working through order filling and drive-through before finally reaching kitchen wastes previous kitchen experience.
The owner keeps wages low and the stores constantly understaffed.
Frequently further understaffed as employees wouldn't be available for their shift at the last minute.
The flexible schedule works both ways: some weeks give the bare minimum of hours, scheduling will forget availability, schedules were often only a day or two before the work week began and being scheduled for a close followed by an open the next day happened regularly.