Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-02-23
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Better than most hospitality employers
Pros: - Great friendly managers - there was only one horrible one at my branch, or so I thought at the time. She wasn't so bad now that I think about it having worked elsewhere!  
- Generally employees are treated really well, if you don't want to stay overtime they respect that. Of course if you are a doormat by nature you'll probably still get treated like one. 
- They're very fair about breaks and make sure everyone gets one. 
- Food is free on your break, amount will depend on your restaurant
- Paid training and trial ''shift'' is only like 20 mins whereas some restaurants make you work 4 hours free to prove your worth. 
- If you want further training it is very available, potential to become crew trainer (and more) and get qualifications. I was doing A Levels so didn't need any of this but it is available.

I understand now having worked in other hospitality establishments why McDonald's gets employee of the year awards! They don't get abusive if you do things apparently too slow and are understanding of the fact it takes some time to get used to the way things operate. They don't expect you to know everything after being shown something once.
Cons: Working on drive-through window 1 is horrendous because you can hardly hear what people are saying through the headset and pretty much have to guess - means mistakes happen often.  I started hating working here when they constantly put me on this job. It was giving me a lot of anxiety having to deal with people getting angry over me saying ''excuse me'' too many times when I didn't catch what they said.  I