Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2014-08-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

McDonald's being McDonald's is a very stressful environment to work at.
Pros: Easy job to get, they are constantly hiring. Flexible hours if you are a staff, sine you can give your availablity - not so when you're a supervisor or a manager.  You get free meal while working and even 50% discount when you buy food at your own branch.
Cons: While schedule flexibility works for crews, its not the same for management team - the supervisors and the managers. Youre lucky if your GM will accomodate your schedule, they sometimes do - but for most part youre somewhat held hostage to their schedule. Worse, sometimes the following week's schedules are posted only a few days before the actual work week. It's like waiting on them for you to schedule your personal life around McDonalds. 
Benefits wise, you can enroll in their 401k program and they do employee match. BUT, you dont get vacation leave credits like what they told you during the interview. You STAR EARNING your leave credits one year after you held a supervisory or managerial position, which sucks because during the interview, they couod tell you you start tomearn it after one year of service. NOt true. I applied for a Department manager position, and they offered me that position, but when i started working, I started out as a trainee position then have to wait until they certify you - which could take months even a year since you have to attend management classes. Once youre done with the classes and is certified, you will be "promoted" to shift supervisor, THEN thats the tine you start earning your leave credits - AFTER ONE YEAR OF HOLDING THAT POSITION FOR A YEAR ( shift sup), that sucks! Unless youre promoted to a higher position like a Department Manager which I applied to in the first place, having a leave credit could take freaking 2 years to earn!! Sucks big time!