McDonalds job…..All about the team
I worked as a crew member at McDonald’s in Plainview, New York right after high
school. Mcdonald’s always seemed like a good first job and one of my best friends worked
there….so I went in and applied.
I loved it. It was a lot of fun. We were a very…highly rated store. Mcdonalds has
an internal rating system.
It was a young crowd. Most of the people were from my high school…everybody worked
together and had a good time at work. It was a good team atmosphere, everybody helped
everybody out and you had fun at work. So if drive-thru wasn’t doing anything and
somebody placed a big order, you went over and helped assembled their food and it was just
cool when it got stuffed up…it was just exhilarating.
There were things like uh….well, this isn’t like a team thing, more like a
competetive thing, but, uh, let’s say during the dinner rush you had to sell shamrock
shakes for St. Patricks day. So whoever suggestively sold the most shamrock shakes got
like a $10 meal ticket. That was like competition.
I stopped liking the job in general when a lot of the people who I had so much fun with
ended up leaving or going to college and whatnot…and also, I had a manager, who I
just really didn’t get along with very well. And one day he just….I don’t
want to make it sound like I quit cuz of this one manager, but it was just like the people
changed and I stopped enjoying the people or just in comparison to the way it was.
I used to like the manager but the managers changed. One guy who I was really good
friends with when he was a crew member. Like he was a crew member for a really long time
and he made a conscious descision like not to be a manager…at a certain point he just
became a dick when he became a manager. Like his fears were realized and I just started
getting fed up with the whole situation. I quit because it just wasn’t as much fun
anymore…total personal reasons….people bugging me.
In 5 years, I hope to be working for a small start-up company of some sort.
In 30 years…Enjoying life, spending time with my family, working in an environment
where I have lots of flexibility. Enjoying my work, whatever it is. Hopefully something
techie…people-ie….
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Permenant scarring from all the sh^tty equipment, damaged nerve endings from electrical shocks created via old equipment, long hours - low pay, management with serious control issues, phone calls at all hours moaning and bitching to get you to work more shifts, high turn over due to it being a lame ass job.<br />
Removal of reason to live<br />
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Ye mcdonalds is a great job....
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i have always thought of leaving but i need the money to go to college.the people i work with are great its like were a big family we work as a team all for one and one for all the sort of thing. in 30 years i hope to be happy in what ever i do
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When I was 16, a friend of mine dropped out of high school and took a job at McDonald's. I vowed to never work there.<br />
When I was 21, I ran out of money, was in college, and a friend convinced me to get a job there.<br />
We both got hired the same day.<br />
3 hours later, I walked off the job to never return.<br />
6 weeks later, they called me. They said "do you know you're scheduled to work tonight?"<br />
I said "no".<br />
They asked if I planned on coming into work.<br />
I said no, and asked where my paycheck was.<br />
They asked where their uniform was.<br />
I got paid, and they got their uniform.
Wow what a bunch of happy people you all are. "we love mcdonalds" come to the Uk and work over here, theres no dam joy or love in this souless boul wrenching corporate hell hole. Christ' proofreading the bible would be more fun. <br />
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Permenant scarring from all the sh^tty equipment, damaged nerve endings from electrical shocks created via old equipment, long hours - low pay, management with serious control issues, phone calls at all hours moaning and bitching to get you to work more shifts, high turn over due to it being a lame ass job.<br />
Removal of reason to live<br />
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Ye mcdonalds is a great job....
I worked for McDonalds in management for over 10 years and decided to educate myself. My income has tripled and I no longer work evenings, weekends or unpaid overtime. The phone calls at home during my holidays was bad enough. It was walking into the restaurant every day serving people that I knew were one step above me that was the deciding factor.
McDonalds pays the lowest wages required by law, if they could pay you less they would. McDonalds also understands that as long as you have no education they can brain wash you into believing that becoming a manager is comparable to graduating from law school. They will also try to persuade you into a career path, misery enjoys company.
At the end of the day the bottom line is that your contribution to society is serving big macs and wiping tables, wake up folks.
HATED it, like only the first 3 days, i had no idea what i was doing. I meen i was trained good, haha but im just a slow learner.
JEEZ i hated it cause i never knew what button to press, and I have like 50 refunds, and i freaked out when people asked
to supersize their meal, because i didn't know how to punch
that in. But then after about 2 weeks there, i got the hang of everything. Now i know everything. And the managers are all
young and laid back. And i love the people i work with, even all
the oldies, haha they so cute. The ONLY thing i hate about working there is that i never get enough shifts, i work like 3 shifts
a week!! And the other thing i hate is the customers, somtimes you get the nicest people ever, that actually MAKE you smile.
But then you also get the meanest bastards ever, like wtf. I got this lady today, she asked if we took master cards, and i said
''no we don't take master cards''...and she freakin mocked me,
she was like ''no we don't take master cards'', in a little nerdy bitchy girl voice. I was like ''yeah ok, because that's how i talk''...she's lucky
i'm a clean person, or i woulda spit in her food.
This Store is a good store with good managers and good crew. We havent had a training program in the past now we are trying to get one going. Right now Iam working with my crew trainers to get to program up and moving we are having fun and a chalanging job. I was wanting to talk with other crew trainers or crew cheifs to see what programs their stores have so post back.
Some of My responsibilities include
Keeping the Training Tracking Program up to date
Write Training Schudles
Over See the Safty Committie
Over see the Crew Trainers
Hold Trainers meets
Kepp Track of SOC
Keep Track of Video Completion on crew and managers.
Planing station trying with new and old employees.
Due a Monthly Focus on which crew are the stroe weekest link and get them trained.
Wow what a bunch of happy people you all are. "we love mcdonalds" come to the Uk and work over here, theres no dam joy or love in this souless boul wrenching corporate hell hole. Christ' proofreading the bible would be more fun. <br />
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Permenant scarring from all the sh^tty equipment, damaged nerve endings from electrical shocks created via old equipment, long hours - low pay, management with serious control issues, phone calls at all hours moaning and bitching to get you to work more shifts, high turn over due to it being a lame ass job.<br />
Removal of reason to live<br />
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Ye mcdonalds is a great job....
i worked in mc donalds for three weeks it was soul destroying it almost put me in a mental institution you must be either insane or a total and utter wanker get a life u sad sad man i hope u and your family burn in hell for the rest of time i hope im pissing on your dead body in 30 years time