Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2014-10-14
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Need regulations to prevent staff issues
Pros: It feels great to know the people you work with are your friends and see that people are genuinely appreciative of the work you do (customers).  The discounts on offer as well are pretty awesome
Cons: Some of the higher up staff treated the staff awfully.  I overheard managers complaining about staff to other staff, myself included.  Managers would often abuse the rules to help themselves and abuse them to mess staff around.  For example, I needed work trousers and had to wait for the managers to order them and they would simply put off ordering them.  Then all of a sudden they needed a night shift covered and when I said yes but do you have my trousers they told me to just come in in black trousers instead.  I refused the shift as the uniform is there for safety reasons.  I also had experience of McDonalds trying to force me into resigning because they wanted to employ someone who wasn't at University.  They claimed that I had to work a shift every two weeks knowing this was next to impossible to do, and then when I challenged them with their education first policy, pretended the whole thing hadn't happened.  Then I told them that I had recorded the message that had been left and they swiftly turned round and said that they'd spoken to the manager who had called me and that this was no longer the case.  They still asked for my resignation.