Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2017-04-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Incredibly emotionally draining, independent of pay schedule.
Pros: - Getting hired was almost absurdly easy (many locations have on the spot interviews on certain days)
- Very engaging and pleasantly paced when working with the right people (ie. Not the general manager)
- At least one of the managers was very reassuring and worked to place employees in positions where they were comfortable working (ie. Placing more naturally outgoing individuals at the front register, more shy individuals on fry duty or assembly duty, allowing trainees to work more stressful and complicated jobs during slower periods rather than forcing them into the drive thru during peak operating hours and reprimanding them for their performance, etc) at no cost to the efficiency of the store, while most managers were pleasant or tolerable to work under
- Very flexible hours so long as you give advance notice of days you need off
Cons: - General Manager constantly reprimanding other employees and I for small infractions, very rarely offering constructive criticism (is not uncommon to come into work feeling down only to be reprimanded for being gloomy, and then being threatened with termination for not being able to feign happiness after being harshly criticized)
- Manager would often chastise other employees behind their backs to other employees, even crew members (I was often told not to act like X employee or how "[expletive]" of an attitude Y employee had)
- Not at all forgiving or well-suited to those that have external sources of stress or cannot deal with rude management, if happiness cannot be feigned then you will be reprimanded and/or terminated 
- Will very rarely be given an accurate perception of your progress or performance, it seems the highest echelon of management is more focused on "weeding out" poor performers than it is helping them improve. Expect to be threatened with termination to incentivise improvement, and to be subject to undue scrutiny if the manager doesn't like you on a personal level