Company: McDonald-s
Date: 2013-01-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great company!!  horrible franchise owners!!!
Pros: Corporate McDonald provides really good training into management and those classes count as college credits!
Cons: 1. They say that they are flexible but they are not! They are not willing to work around your school schedule and if you have a family and have an emergency with the family you might as well give up a management job because middle management will not let you go home!
2. They claim to offer sick days and vacation too but i tried to use my vacation for a whole year two years ago and they kept on saying that they didn't have enough managers to cover so I ended up loosing all two weeks of vacation that year! and also its impossible to use sick days! I worked a closing shift and the opening manager didn't show up to open the store a couple hours later so they made me come in and open and pull a double so i ended up working 22 hours in a row and on my way home I fell asleep and totaled my car and had to go to the hospital so my wife called to tell them that I couldn't come in the next day because I had been in a bad wreck so they said that they were going to write me up and that I couldn't use the sick days so I could still get paid which I had built up 6 sick days over the years and they said that I could not use them. 
3. They claim to hold a basketball game between store and a picnic for the employees but barely anybody gets to go because they end up getting scheduled to work those days and they are not allowed to take off those days to enjoy those benefits! only they lucky few that get scheduled off can go.
4. When it comes right down to everything the owner and his supervisors really dont care bout their employees all they worry bout is making money! The supervisors will tell the store manager to schedule the minimum amount of people for a shift so they can meet their labor for the day. but the end result to that is that you end up being really busy with barely any crew to work so you are struggling with tired crew that has been working their butts off and angry customers that call the 800 number to try and get the shift manager in trouble for the long wait when its actually upper management that is cutting the crews hours and not scheduling enough people for a shift and at the same time causing the customer to have a horrible experience in the restaurant just so that they can save some money!
5. They used to let you order anything you wanted to eat and let you have a half price meal which a lot of the employees would order just a small sandwich and get the discount but this year they decided to change that policy and they only way to get your discount is to order a numbered meal which most of the time still after the discount runs you almost 4 dollars and a lot of the crew really doesn't have money to buy meal like that every single day they work I mean my meal was free since I was a manager but every day on my shifts when I would send one of my crew on their break they would just sit in the crew room because they didn't have the money to buy their food!