Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2015-03-07
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Unexpected Great Experience!
Pros: Barrier to entry is minimal, you just need to not seem like a total lowlife to get hired. Where I was, 50% off food while you worked was pretty awesome, got to eat yummy McDonald's everyday and for a 16 year old (back when), that was pretty awesome. The people I worked with are the people who I would be happy working with the rest of my life, but I didn't want to work there the rest of my life.
Cons: Working with customers. Customers there are often brash and rude, don't care about anything but getting their food and getting out. Complain about high prices even though they continually reuse us (as evidence of their BMI). Long process to get promoted, as conveniently the two people who need to be present to promote decided to take their 2 week vacations subsequent to each other. Turnover is so high; people would show up for 2 shifts then never show up again, and it was the norm.