Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2014-09-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Only work here if it's your first job
Pros: * A free meal a day
* Extremely flexible. You can get days off very easily and work additional shifts easily, too
* Easy job in the sense that very little training is required to become a pro at cooking (slightly more for the tills). Because all stations are so simple with timers etc that any 7 year old could make food there.
Cons: * Above all: The salary! You will always only get 2p more than minimum wage (or similar). Not fair for the amount of work you do
* The work is really intense. Very little time to relax for even a few seconds if the store is busy. You are always supposed to be doing something or you get told off. If tere is nothing to do, you need to start cleaning
* You will be on your feet for the entire shift. No chance at all of sitting down or taking a rest for even a couple of minutes.
* If there are staff shortages (which was the case at mine as it was a franchise), you will have to work your socks off! In this fast paced environment, if there are too many orders and they don't have helpers, you'll need to really speed up to non-humane levels
* You are pretty much guaranteed to come out with burn marks somewhere on your hands or harms for the rest of your life. Everyone at my store had them somewhere, whether store managers with years of experience or crew members who just joined a week ago.
* A lot of crew members have a very basic education which means you can only hold limited intellectual conversations with them if you studied A Levels or went to uni (You'll usually have to stick to music and sports, forget about politics and technology)