Would you like fries with this job? - Restaurant Manager McDonald's Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

McDonald's is truely an american company that is looking for ways to maintain longterm growth. It is an exciting time with McCafe which should become as recognized to our brand as drive thru's and breakfast are for us. We often promote from within and have a fabulous team of owner opperators. And alot of them started out as crew people. We teach alot of people some basic job skills. We provide people with a great product at a fantastic value. McDonald's has some amazing products and employees even more amazing people. The atmosphere is fast paced and stimulating. We have the BEST Happy Meal program!

Cons

McDonald's talks about being about people, but we abuse our employees alot. Having to work weekends and holidays and 50 to 60 hours. It is amazing that anyone would take a multimillion dollar business and put teenagers in charge, and in a lot of cases not even have any type of admin. assistant. We don't give the training needed, because it takes away from the bottom line, and we do little to recognize our employees. The job is hard, the hours are long and the rewards are few. Its even officially labled. the "mcJob". Its hard to really have alot of pride in that.

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2.0
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Pros

You could recieve free meals during and right after your shift,as well as free drinks, ok work life balance for part time,

Cons

Working environment was highly unprofessional and toxic at the time, workers would call customers the r slur behind their back as well as using the r slur at every given opportunity,I would work around 7 or 6 hours and would sometimes go weeks of shifts without getting any kind of break . The only sort of break you get is from using the restroom. Sometimes people would not communicate on schedules. I had a day unavailable because I was attending community college at the time,they called me right as I was headed into class and I assumed it was spam as I didnt recognize the number ,the next day they got upset with me for no showing,when I had been open about what times I was available and unavailable since the interview and management knew. Everyone always in a bad mood,customers and staff. Was not trained to do certain things and then would have management upset with me for it. Draining experience, also unfriendly to autistic people.

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