Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2012-04-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

An ideal place for students to get some gas and spending money. Its meant to be a temporary job.
Pros: Job security. People usually don't get fired unless you did something pretty stupid.

Flexible shifts. People call out of their shifts all the time and are usually granted requested (unpaid) time off. Also there is no limit to how much you can request off, but the drawback is the time off is unpaid.

Co-workers. At times you can have a good time hanging out with your coworkers (including managers).

One free meal if worked for 4 hours.

Plenty of hours available.
Cons: The job itself can be bad if there's no one there to help you.

Customers can be very rude and sometimes take advantage of the system.

95% of all employees only get one shirt. No matter how many times you ask, they will only give you one. It took me over a year and a half to get a second shirt and I average 35-40 hours a week, 5 days a week. And it was a used shirt!

Co-workers. At my location a few people got ahead by brown nosing and not taking responsibility for their actions and blaming it on the people under them.

Favoritism. Anyone above crew member is female and promotions and better treatment are given to females and some other people of interest.

Unprofessionalism. 

No raises. No benefits for crew people, regardless of length of employment.  

There have been times when I have been asked to clock in 5-10 minutes before my shift because a manager asked me to, then i would check the time punch entry in the managers computer per request and I've found that someone in management altered my time punch entry so that I clocked in on time and so i don't get paid for that 5-10 minutes. Numerous employees over my 3 year tenure with my location have gone some shifts without breaks then later discover a few days later that a member of management has gone onto the system to alter their time punch so that they did receive a 30 minute break when they in fact did not.