Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2019-04-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great for personal development... not so much professional development.
Pros: When reading employer reviews of McDonald's, it's important to remember that most McDonald's stores are owned by independent franchisees. Some franchises are much better to work at than others. Some are heavily money and budget focused, very few actually care about their people and their development. 

- As the title mentions, personal development is one of the few pros in working for a McDonald's franchise. This job will teach you how to handle countless disgruntled customers, work to stupidly unrealistic expectations in undesirable conditions, deal with aggressive, impatient, poorly-trained managers who're too focused on meaningless drive-thru scores to care about the customers themselves.

- You'll meet some great people, both crew and managers... however you'll meet your fair share of idiots too

- That's about it... oh yeah, 50% discount
Cons: - The pay is DISGUSTING when you're not over 21. You can do the same or more work than a 21 year old but because of Australia's backward age-based pay system, you're discriminatingly underpaid because of your age. It's literally an actual, REAL, pay-gap. 

- The second you turn the next age (and your pay increases automatically), you will lose hours.