Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-02-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Terrible pay - but made friends for life
Pros: When teamwork and communication was good it made your day run so smoothly. You're working closely with 30/40+ people so becoming friends is inevitable, I've met my partner and a good handful of friends for life through working there. Their training schemes are really good, especially if you've left school with no qualifications and there's lots of opportunities for progression to management even if you're only working part time. Lots of charity involvement, working with local community, staff nights out etc and they do try to keep the morale high most of the time. The flexibility was the best thing, I transferred so easily between 2 cities (uni and home), they gave me 2 months off to go travelling at the last minute and your holiday pay is accrued depending on how many hours you've worked so you can pretty much take time off whenever.
Cons: The pay is terrible for the work you're doing. Its minimum wage mostly, and every 6 months you receive your PR (performance review?) where you can get a pay rise if you score above a certain mark, which I found quite unfair as some people are getting paid a lot more than others for the same work, especially if the manager just happens to like that person more than you. Also if the store is trying to save money they'll score you under the required mark for a pay rise. If the store is short staffed and it gets busy, you're completely run off your feet and mistakes are made, customers get p*ssed and you have to take abuse over trivial things like a pickle on a cheeseburger. Its just not worth it for the money you get. A lot of customers think they're better than you. The store I worked in most of the time had terrible management turnover (something like 8 managers in 2 years) so it was hard for the manager to get to know you and the store (and vice versa) before they were away again.