Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-07-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Okay
Pros: Free food
Uniform provided
Kitchen staff nice
Cons: Breaks given after 40 minutes for 12 hour shifts. You'd often be interrupted during your 30 minute lunch break so the food would go cold anyway. 

There was Irregular working hours, sometimes you'd be working 7am and other times you wouldn't finish until 3am. I was left on my own on both regular and quarter grills during peak hours at a store that also had a drive-thru, had the front desk staff shouting at me for shakemix when I was on my own AND they wondered why the kitchen would crash. Absolute joke. I hated it. Also don't even get me started on ajaxing.

I went 3 weeks back-to-back with no day off because they kept putting me on the rota. On my day off I was getting rung up to come in. They would write in the rota book that I had a shift but not update my workday, and then expect me to mind-read and know to come in. My contract was allegedly part-time, but I worked every single day for minimum wage. I left at the first opportunity. 

I also worked a week after my notice period because they were short staffed, received no thanks for doing so because I didn't have to AND they wouldn't give a reference to my current employer which was the final nail in the coffin.