It never gets better - Crew Member McDonald's Employee Review

1.0
Sep 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The flexibility with your schedule is great, as long as you're willing to take less pay. I would say free food, but that isn't a pro if that's offered as a default benefit in any restaurant setting. When you do get another job, no matter how bad your new job is, you can think, "at least it's not Stagg McDonald's".

Cons

Low pay. Constant turn-around due to other entry level businesses offering higher entry level wages for equal or less experience. The prices of the items on the menu slowly continue to climb, yet everyone is still paid the same. The fact that the store will still be graded on the same scale as if we were completely fully staffed, yet, the grader is fully aware that there's only a handful of employees in the store. The fact that we have to take time out of our schedules to join a meeting about how we should organize our life better at home and maybe it'll improve our performance at work. The example given : "Try doing a load of laundry every day, instead of waiting to do all of your laundry on one day." Within the same meeting, We were told people quit due to attitudes, not at OUR store, but at other locations, so we need to do better...because of other stores... I've seen people fill out applications in the back for convenience stores because of the higher pay, yet it's because of our "attitudes". With as little as we make, all we have is each other's support. We are literally struggling together. Do you really expect us to believe it's because some other store did this or that. please, ma'am. Gaslighting as it's finest.

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Pros

In-store management was great, very nice and fun to work with, and was very accommodating when needed.

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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