Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2013-11-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Started out great, finished on a low note.
Pros: Decent experience for your very first job.
Somewhat flexible schedule (changed at the end).
Feedback was initially good (changed at the end).
Pay is ok (it is fast-food...)
Cons: There was hardly any opportunity for advancement within the store. Despite being employed longer and having very good reviews, many workers (including myself) were looked over by the management for rare promotions that occurred.

Very quick turnover of the crew (except for the forementioned ones). After the managers in my earlier period of employment had left, feedback from the new management decreased and became more vague. Lots of passive-aggressive behaviour from them as in deliberate stonewalling our requests for feedback.

Scheduling flexibility had become extremely inflexible towards the end of my employment there. Due to the sheer number of students employed there, there were a shortage of labour during predictable periods of time (Christmas, midterms, finals) and yet the later management went as far as canceling some of the booked-off dates by the crew because the restaurant was in such need of labour. This would have been understandable if it wasn't for the fact that they had hired so much teenage labour and knew the consequences of doing so.

Overall, it was the enjoyment of the crew (the ones that had stayed) and the managers (the first ones) that made my time at McDonald's bearable.