Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2021-04-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

McDonald's Service Staff
Pros: My specific employer was really flexible when it came to my college/work balance. They helped me find shifts that fit with my schedule when I was commuting and they hold my position for when I come back now that I'm living on campus this year.
Cons: -Too stressful -- we were always understaffed for no reason.

-We were denied the ability to get overtime. We were sent home early so we wouldn't go over 40 hours. If we did, managers would get yelled at, and sometimes we would too (because apparently we're supposed to keep track of our hours so we don't go over and get extra money). On especially busy days, we had to clock out but stay behind to do more work, just not getting paid for it. One of the reasons I applied was because of overtime, and they told me I'd be able to get it if I was hired.

-Treated me horribly -- they knew I didn't want to become a manager, yet they would disappear for 30+ minutes during a rush and I'd be forced to run the store myself (mostly alone, sometimes with really incapable employees). It was so disrespectful to put this pressure on me because I wasn't being paid to be a manager, so there were NO perks.

-I developed a severe allergy to dish-cleaning products. They forced me to wash them anyway, even though my skin was bleeding and covered in hives and burning and I couldn't breathe. They had me buy my own gloves out of pocket because they wouldn't provide them (they said they did, but those were ones I bought that didn't fit). I was told that if they had known I had this allergy when I was being hired, they would not have hired me. They finally stopped making me wash them when I provided a doctor's note and basically threatened to quit if they made me. I knew they wouldn't fire me or want me to quit because I was basically the only competent worker there, and the only nice one. Every time I left for college, I'd come back to find horrible online reviews because our staff was so rude/disrespectful and incompetent.