Crazy fun with a side of stress. - Anonymous employee McDonald's Employee Review

4.0
Jul 19, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits - the 401k cannot be beat! Management is where it's at as long as you still come in wanting to work hard - but in a different way than the crew. You are in fact paid to think. It's a mind game, and it can be very stimulating. You are guaranteed to come across some of the most interesting people and you will have conversations that you will remember forever. There's always something to be done, and there are so many different things to do, you should not be bored!

Cons

Can be very stressful; it will certainly test your patience. It can also get depressing sometimes if you have a bad batch of customers or employees who just don't want to work. If you allow yourself to be walked on and used, you will be. You will be physically tired at the end of every day if you are doing the job well.

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Cons

I was supposed to be on the official schedule after one week of working, but it took three months to be placed on the schedule, so every day I had to message the store manager to ask if I was needed to work. Once I was on the schedule, I hurt myself outside of work and had to take a day off to go to the doctor (i got someone to cover my shift), After that, I was not on the schedule anymore. I messaged the store manager, the other managers, and the scheduling manager, and after 2 months, I still wasn't on the schedule. I asked the Store manager again, and she said it was my fault I wasn't on the schedule despite the fact that I was messaging everyone I could. I then put my two weeks in because she refused to let me work.

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