Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2017-05-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Could Do A Lot Beter
Pros: The platinum card is a decent benefit, as it gives you 50% off food in store as well as other deals, like 10% off at Softmoc. Flexible hours is also great, because you can book off time or exchange shifts easily. Only other thing that's good is the training.

Working at McDonald's looks good on the resume, so it helps when you need to find a new job.
Cons: Customers are probably the biggest con. I'm not even talking about how they're rude or annoying, because you get customers like that everywhere (it's pretty much standard). But customers at McDonald's think they're at the Ritz Carlton or something. They demand things, and they demand them loudly and proudly. In my mind, I'm thinking "Ma'am, you paid $1.89 for that cheeseburger, of course, it's gross. We keep the meat in the heater all day.". But what actually comes out is "Would you like a refund?", because I couldn't care less.

The job gets tiring, really quickly. It especially sucks, because they don't pay overtime. They get around that by paying you in "missed wages", so they don't have to pay extra. And it only pays minimum wage. You do, of course, have the chance to get a raise every 6 months, but it's a 20 cent increase. However, you only get this raise if you do not get a promotion beforehand. So if you get a promotion before your 6 month increase, you don't get it. Again, another way to pay you less. 

Honestly, you can tell the job sucks, because when one person quits, a bunch of other people wake up and realize the job isn't worth it and they quit as well. So you go through periods where there isn't enough people, and they're way too understaffed. But then they hire an influx of newcomers and you're left to train them all by yourself, since everyone else was smart enough to quit. 

I was promised a lot of things over my career, and most of them didn't happen. So take what they say with a grain of salt.