Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2020-09-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Experience Varies from store to store
Pros: I had a great time work at my store. The people were so welcoming considering it was my first job and I made some really good friends in my 4 year with the company. I was promoted to crew trainer within 2 years of my time there and the hours were extremely flexible for me. The managers were alright too. During the first couple of years, my hard work was acknowledged and I did receive many awards however the longer I stayed there, the less people acknowledge your efforts. Overall it is a great place to work for students mainly because of the flexibility.
Cons: As expected, McDonalds is a very fast paced, and often stressful environment but after the ru she’s you feel a sense of achievement which is always good. Due to coronavirus, my store wasn’t planning on opening as it was part of a city centre mall which wasn’t busy and very little customer were coming in. To get everyone off furlough, I was transferred to another store. At first I was extremely excited to get back to work after 4 months off but I soon realised that my new store was extremely unwelcoming. My old store was a small ‘Made for You’ restaurant and the store I had been transferred to was an ‘EOTF’ store. The layout was completely different and this store also did delivery orders and drive through. I made all the managers aware of this and still they would just leave me in areas I wasn’t trained in. I was running around like a headless chicken, asking people where things where kept. This was extremely de-motivating for me and I really wasn’t enjoying working in my new store, so I decided to leave. In my old store, everyone was so welcoming, we would get to know the people we work with, and create a wonderful working environment, but in this new store, it felt like I was working in a cemetery.