Job Story: unclean conditions....mcdonalds crew

[Unregistered]

i think you're being a little harsh! are you there all the time? to know that these things are never cleaned would mean that you are there all the time....the mops do get cleaned as you put them in the floor cleaner water....even though sometimes the bathrooms are disgusting it doesnt mean that its always like that...your maintenence people clean that at night. If the restaurant got a cleanliness of 80% it obviously is clean. maybe while your working you should take charge a bit to do your part so the restaurant is clean while you're working. The restaurant wouldn't dirty if you cleaned it yourself instead of whining and expecting someone else to do it for you.

[Unregistered]

In responce Mcdonalds is known for doing overnight cleaning and sanitation on there stores for corprate inspections and though I have worked for this company I know about procedures used for cleaning and it would discust you if only you knew how inadiquatly they clean , lets talk about roaches in you soda machines , or yes mops that are not cleaned on a regular bases
or egg rings with particles of cooked eggs on them from the prior morning,lets see theres the hashbrown racks used to cook the hasbrowns that are not cleaned daily same for the frenchfry baskets and if you looked behind the grills and friers you would be discusted, the top of the vents are never cleaned daily and often build up condisation and drip onto the cooked product, rarely is your food fresh as they lead it on to be often it sits in the cabinets for very long periods of time and the containers used to hold there meats are not changed regulary and are used over and over again,and are often not cleaned well left with particles in them and reused, I I know I was there......I will never eat there as a costomer

[Unregistered]

To person above: have u ever worked at a mcdonalds? For the most part, regardless of the location, the things mentioned above are true. And it's unfair to say that this person should clean the store him/her self cause it's SUPPOSED to be a group effort. But when u come in around 4 o clock and the grill is a mess, there is eggs all over the grill from breakfast, the garbages aren't emptied, nothing is stocked, the food has been sitting there for god knows how long, and suddenly you get slammed (really busy) for 3 hours straight, (your short handed so there's only 2 people in grill when there should be 4 or more) and allowed no bathroom breaks or otherwise; your attitude tends follow suit with the employees of the prior shift: F*ck it, nobody else cares, they dont pay me enough to care or put up with this s*it they damn sure don't give a rat's ass about me so....F*CK EM! If u read other posts you'll read about how lazy the managers are (most of em) and how they pick on one person to do many of the cleaning while the others stand around and chat. I've worked at several mcdonalds while goin to school and I can say from first hand experience that this is no BS...They treat their employees other than managers (mostly) like utter s*it. I could go on forever but I think we get the point.

[Unregistered]

To the above person..I have worked for mcdonalds for 5 years. ..and i am a manager..i absolutely hate it. you are so right about the cleaning job being a group effort.. but if noone else is doing it..they why should u? i am one of the "cool" managers who help the crew out. i would never ask anyone to do anything that i wouldnt do..but like you said..if you come in for a 4pm shift and there are still breakfast dishes laying around and meat laying everywhere..f*ck it!
i hate mcdonalds and i cant wait to tell my boss to shove it!

[Unregistered]

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[Unregistered]

if mcdonalds would pay a fucking wage that at least would pay your rent. maybe the workers may start to give a damn. if i made 5.15 an hr,id do as little as i could get away with!

[carmill]

GUYS GIVE US SOME BENEFIT OF A DOUBT. I AGREE ON SOME TERMS BUT ITS NOT ALL RESTRAUNTS.I WORK FOR A GOOD OWNER OPERATOR. HIS 3 RESTRAUNTS A TOP. WE JUST HAD A INSPECTION . WE WERE EXCELLENT. I DONT KNOW HOW THE POINT SYSTEM WORKS BUT I KNOW I WORKED HARD TO HELP. AND AS FOR CLEANLINESS IM A CLOSER I DO PULL OUT GRILLS AND TAKE OUT VENTS AND DRIP PANS AND AMONG OTHER STUFF. THIS IS WHAT I DO I MAKE A TO DO LIST FOR MY BACKLINE. I CALL IT MY OTHER BRAIN SO I WONT STRESS OUT TRYING TO THINK WHAT TO DO NEXT I DO CARE ABOUT MY JOB . AND I DO GOT A GOOD MANAGEMET PARTY. THEY ARE NICE, FUN , BUT FIRM. I GET ALONG WITH THEM AND I DO MY PART. I AGREE SOME CREW DOES JUST STAND THERE. YES SOMEONE HAS TO DO THE JOB. BUT WHERE I WORK. IF YOU DONT OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND TELL A MANAGER THAT THE PERSON IS NOT HELPING YOU THEY WONT KNOW TO TELL. BUT MY MANAGERS KEEP EYES ON THE CREW AND THEY DO WHAT THEY AARE TOLD. HAVE FUN, CLEAN AS YOU GO. BUT NUMBER ONE KEEP CUSTOMERS HAPPY. AND YES I AGREE. CLEANLINESS IS NUMBER ONE NEXT TO THE CUSTOMER.AND IM NOT DISRESPECTING ANYONE. I DO BELIEVE THAT ALOT OF RESTRAUNTS. PLUS OTHER S HAS THERE BAD EGGS. ITS THE ONES THAT JUST DONT CARE. YES I NEED THE MONEY BUT I CARE. I BEEN WORKING ALL TOGETHER 4 YEARS MAYBE LITTLE MORE IN ALL. AND I ALWAYS TRY MY BEST. IM NOT A MANAGER OR ANYTHING. I DO THINK ABOUT IT. BUT I WANT TO KEEP LEARNING ABOUT RESTRAUNT FIRST. I KNOW GOSH 4 YEARS I HAVENT LEARNED YET. BUT YES I HAVE BUT IM JUST NOT READY TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILTY. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO KNOW ALL CAUSE I DONT WANT TO FEEL STUPID WHEN YOUR CREW NO MORE THAN YOU DO. OH WELL MAYBE SOME DAY. IF THERE IS ANY CREW OUT THERE EMAIL ME. WE CAN GIVE ADVICE ALL TALK AABOUT WORK. THANKS

[dirtymac]

ok i work at mc donalds its been about 2 weeks now and i al ready found out soem stuff that is worng

fist the drinks arein the basement the tube that brings drink to the drink up stairs runs right nextes to the toilet pipe

the stuff that the fires are baked in is made out of pork itsn't that make people eat pork and even thow they chose not to .

down with mc donalds

[carmill]

hi our drinks are in the basement but didnt really notice if they are by the toilet pipes but i will check. and as for the oil that your fries are in. now where i work at it is vegetable oil. surely all the mcdonalds are furnishing vetable oil. oil store is going by a health mode. so you dont like your job so far. what are you. backline, frontline , maintaince, or lobby. hey have any other questions feel free.

[Cathelest]

Mcdonalds here, Australia, have procedures for everything, and everything is scheduled to be cleaned regularly, the oil is no longer made of animal fat, and for the persons information, its cow fat that was used, not pig, that shoulda been obvios considering cow much beef product McD's sell.

And wherever u people are from, u must be extremely lazy or have no guilt, for it seems u people accept to leave things dirty and pest infested,

McD's here are almost 100% perfect, we are the largest restaurant chain in Australia, we also have the largest growing salads company, grossing 130 million last year compared to tim tams who only grossed 80mill, we sell more toys then every toy shop combined, we also own the most car parks in the world,

We constantly improve our procedures however some are extremely hard and lame, and improve recipes to promote better health and lifestylle to the customers,

Basicly dont just say every store is dirty ect, as thats untrue, and i here no mention of any other restaurant,


And overall, if u dont like it, dont buy it,

[carmill]

mam or sir, no need for the insult. we are not in here to insult. we are trying to come together as a team for solutions. and im not lazy. you know when i seen there was a notice in my email i was excited that someone else posted. cause i love these forums so we can help each other out. and when you said lazy. my heart broke. that isone thing im not. i love my store and for your info we just got a triple aaa on our store. and there is no perfect score in no store. if it was the store is brand new un touched. so lets not insult no more. there is bad and good workers all over the place. now lets talk good ok. we sell alot of our premium salads .expecially the bacon ranch. and the california cobb. what kind of salads do you all have there. and what is car parks. if you dont mind me asking. it sounds neat. do you have mcdonalds play place there? oh and we sell the toys. especially the beanie babies. i bet you all sell them good to. are you management or crew. im just crew. a closer. for 4 years. i dont want to move up. hey they need to keep some good crew. i will no when im ready. i like where im at. i tell you if i knew that was animal oil back when i was a kid i wouldnt ate it. it gives me all body shivers.lol you know i wish they would come out with the mcpizza. my little 11 year old ask me that the other day. maybe someday. well hope to hear from you again. have a nice day. well its probably nite there. if it is you have a good nite.

[aus boy]

ok so heres the deal i work at mcdonalds in aus as a as crew trainer and we recieve tripple a nearly every inspection if we dont its no lower then ABB but this wasnt always the case it took us nearly a year to work up tp were we are now and a lot of training to im not gonna lie we still have a LOT of donkeys but i think that its the crew trainers and management that pulled the store up and even though there are still donkeys the crew trainers are strong enough workers to make it look like tehre working to working in mcdonalds has givin me some of the best skills i have ever gotten especially deligation skills the only thing thats wrong with our store is brendan our store manager he leaves soon and then it good going granville

[Unregistered]

I too work for McDonalds, and everything you just mentioned is the responsibilty of the the crew members i.e. YOU!

McDonalds has amazing levels of QSC and I 100% know any Operations Consultant visting that store wouldn't allow it to continue for a second, all those jobs are on the nightly pull rota, if you're mopping the floor, YOU wash the mop. When you're on the close shift, YOU wipe down the Flurry machine, the shakemix (candy) is returned to the walk-in chiller over night, or discarded.

If as you say non of the companies policies are being followed at this store, then a simple call to head office to inform them would be sufficient. Tho I highly doubt this is the case.

[Worker]

Hi all,
I'm a crew trainer in an Aus restaurant, and could not belive some of the stuff that was said in the first posts. Probably because I work in an awesome, store that won our profit area, but the issues above can be resolved quite easily, by everone working together, and by the crew trainers and managers working their arses off to make sure that crew are following 100% procedures all the time, and doing CAYG, detalied as well, so that vait filters etc, behind the grills are actuall clean.

[Unregistered]

I work at a Mcdonnalds in england and the one i work at is as clean as a resturant you see in a town.

[jdiddy]

I too am from Australia, as a manager i find it interesting to hear some of your reactions to McD's. Ive watched our menu's go from the standard qtrs, macs, cheese, fish chicken etc, to seeing salads, yoghurts, lean beef burgers, veggies. Our kitchen is so packed with new equipment its no longer efficient. The crew are constantly forced to learn how to make twice as much product with the same resources. I'm concerned McD's in Australia forgets what its like at the restaurant level. They continue to introduce new products and make it harder on the crew. Deli style selections is the next thing, McD's attempt to copy subway. All I can say is that I can see how crew moral can be slipping, and some tasks may not be getting done, I think thats a result of having less time to complete them. Im glad to hear that some people have pride in their stores, were a triple B store and happy, considering we were failing only a year ago. Overall its about the customers, but I believe its the crew that make McD's what it is, cause the food aint all that. What stores are u from in Aus, Im from Sydney in Sutherland Shire.

[Unregistered]

I am from Aust too and work at McDonalds. The crew that I have have an extremely high morale, all the managers and crew get along- I'm sure they have their tiffs with each other and the management team. We go on regular outings and the crew are like families. If someone looses feeling something then usually the rest of the team is too.
Yes i agree, things don't get done but most of it starts with having the right crew. Everyone tries their hardest but sometimes things get forgotten or you run out of time or you have just been so busy that you need to have a small rest once the place is clean and tidy.
If something is so wrong then say something, if you don't want to do something about it, then whats to say that someone else will.
Everyone has a responsibilty, and everyone works as a team. McDonalds is a hard place to work. What with Deli Choice, B/F menu, promotional product salads plus and everything else.
Customers seem to expect a lot from McD's, and we have to try our hardest to give it too them.
For crew in Aust you have the benefit. I don't know what it's like where most of you are from but most employer in Aust look for McD experience. It is a major job booster.
I have on many occasions not agreed with things that are done. But if you don't mention this to someone then how is anyone meant to know, or how is it meant to be fixed. Everything has a reason behind it.
As for all of those complaining, don't work there. Go and work at a supermarket or somewhere. Your life is what you make of it.
Try and help your store. If you still don't like working there then leave.

[Unregistered]

not all fast-food resturaunts are bad(over the world)it seems like,
but McDonalds and others in america are, more that 95% of the time, unclean. if u glance over the counter theres crap everywhere and the cleaners are just sitting in the eating area.
i do not eat there. just thought u would like to know

[Unregistered]

Macdonals has and always will treat their employees like shit. They were the worst place to work. A thorough cleaning was only done if they new the big wigs were coming. They pay the shits and take advantage of our youth . They seem here in Vancouver Canada t only hire East Indian immigrants or Filipino's. Why? Because they don't know the Labour laws and wont bitch and minimum wage to them is big money and the "Pimps at McDonalds" can intimidate them more easily as most are female.

Mcdonald are fucking asshole in my books and I refuse to eat there. It is only itting they are in WAL Mart stores because they are both the same type of Employer.

[Unregistered]

Macdonals has and always will treat their employees like shit. They were the worst place to work. A thorough cleaning was only done if they knew the big wigs were coming. They pay the shits and take advantage of our youth and immigrants.

They seem here in Vancouver Canada to only hire East Indian immigrants or Filipino's. Why? Because they don't know the Labour laws and wont bitch and minimum wage to them is big money and the "Pimps at McDonalds" can intimidate them more easily as most are female.

Mcdonald are fucking asshole in my books and I refuse to eat there. It is only fitting they are in WAL Mart stores because they are both the same type of Employer.

[Unregistered]

that is true, mcdonalds does treat their employees like shit(underpayment,over worked,etc...) anyone who thinks McDonalds is a great place to work...i feel sorry for you...wait...no i dont you losers

[kagorath]

it seems like we all have different views of this "tyrant". If you all hate McDonalds or if you all love it...you should all go to different countries to see the differences...i'm sure you'll opion will change, mine has

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Macdonals has and always will treat their employees like shit. They were the worst place to work. A thorough cleaning was only done if they new the big wigs were coming. They pay the shits and take advantage of our youth . They seem here in Vancouver Canada t only hire East Indian immigrants or Filipino's. Why? Because they don't know the Labour laws and wont bitch and minimum wage to them is big money and the "Pimps at McDonalds" can intimidate them more easily as most are female.

Mcdonald are fucking asshole in my books and I refuse to eat there. It is only itting they are in WAL Mart stores because they are both the same type of Employer.
very well said

[Unregistered]

I have worked at Mcdonalds for 5 years, 2 years of the years was management. I agree with everyone in some aspects. As a former manager, I have to say that the cleanliness of our store was great. On my shift I handed out "chores" for each employee to do and be checked out before they clocked out. It seem to help keep it cleaned and stocked up. However the worst thing I found to be at McDonalds is crew. The crew never came in and they was only making 5.50 an hour. So crew called in all the time and cause to to have a negative impact on the whole crew for that night or day. I dont think it should matter if you make $5.15 or $7.00 an hour, a job is a job you should work your hardest no matter what. If you quit everything just because you dont make enough your not going to get anywhere in life. If your salary is such a big deal you should ask how much your employer is going to start you off at before you even accept the job. For the comment about Mcdonald's only caring about the management, and only paying management good, you all have it all wrong, I didnt make nearly as much as I should have, but I work just the same as if I was make $10-15 an hour.

[Unregistered]

She said the employees don't wash their hands. You sound like a pig yourself. I'd hate to have you making my food ANYWHERE, even at your own home. I'm a registered nurse and have done occupational health nursing for years. I have done physicals for the FDA inspectors......and let me tell you..... some of the stories I've heard.... not specifically about Mc D's.... but you have to realize that restuarants are given a "heads up" that inspectors are coming in. Thats when they clean up real good. After they inspect and leave, its back to the ole pig pen. You are clueless. Learn facts and truth before you open your clueless mouth.

[Unregistered]

I work in a small McDonalds resturant in Ireland, and from what I have read here, I want to stay here. No-one in our resturant has a problem cleaning ANYTHING, even behind the grills, or cleaning out the compactor room, or anything. I have been working there for 3 months now and I feel respected there. We are always cleaning the drinks tower or McFlurry machine, or anything. But I agree, the amount of new grills or whatever are taking up a load of space and need to be cleaned out more thoroughly, as in time to clean etc. BUT in the end, our McD's is a great place to work. I sometimes wonder at some replies, how bad those conditions are. Like, today, We had 4 people on to close. It takes 2 and 1/2 hours to clean everything, not including the sauce guns and lettuce pots and Fry dispenser.

[Unregistered]

I work for McDonalds, and " I'm Lovin It". We are a world wide corporation, who gives the young adults job training. I chose McDonalds as my career. I think it is a great place to work and love the people I work with. I enjoy working with the kids and also the adults that work in my store. We strive to keep our store clean and make it a place that our customers enjoy visiting. I guess if your work enviroment is not the same you should work hard to improve it instead of being so negative and complaining all the time. Work as a team to make it happen.

[Unregistered]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Unregistered
[B] The crew never came in and they was only making 5.50 an hour. So crew called in all the time and cause to to have a negative impact on the whole crew for that night or day.
Lucky u, in my store we r lucky if any crew even bother to call in at all, they just 'no show' and the store manager let it.

[obguy1]

I make more on unemployment than Mc Ds pays. All those fast food, retail mall jobs are a joke, there is no future in any of them. I understand its mostly kids working at these jobs but believe me crap@y jobs and lousy employers will use you up if you let them...stay in school, bail the loser type jobs and find a career, you will thank yourself for it when you are 40.

[Unregistered]

I can relate to many of the feelings expressed above. I have been in nursing for only 2 years and already I am extremely stressed out. I spent 4 years in university to become a nurse, and already I am looking for a career change. Does any one have suggestions on nurse entrepreneural jobs?

[jimmytwo]

hi i started work 4 months ago at mc donalds i hate it the crew are lazzy the onlly person who cleans the store is me why should i do it i cant wait next month im going on my managment course then things are going to change

[Unregistered]

Hey i am an mcdonalds employee an d i have work here for 6 months and i love it here.. sure there is there some things that are shitty about workin here but that is outweighed by all of the good things!! like almost all of the people here are your own age which im 16.. you can have time off when ever you need it and you get a pay increse every 3 months im up to 6.70 ...... when i started it was 6.20 and were very clean. wash our hands every 30 min throw out anything that has fallen on the floor . and the best thing is that we have a mcgold card which we get discounts of over 40 stores.. all one that us teens go to . well ttfn

[jimmytwo]

no every 1 is lazzy are u real dout it loser no 1 likes working in mc donalds and every 1 gets them cards pluss every thing that falls on the floor should be put in the bin any way

[Unregistered]

you people are fucked? im a shift assistant doing my BSM at a mcdonalds restaurant in Sydney we have contract cleaners 7 days a week and crew constantly checking the dining room, grills are cleaned filters taken out every day, All Vats are filtered everyday and dropped when needed, all crew MUST wash their hands if they dont they cant get on the floor until its done, over the past few months McDonalds Australia have made several changes with the product they sell such as Low Fat Shake Sundae fix, Short cut rasher bacon only breast meat mcnuggets, canola oil in all our vats, if u work in a Mcdonalds Australia store that is McOpCo (not a franchise) i seriously recommend complaing to your Store Consultant your restaurant managers boss, because in McDonalds Australia everything has to be cleaned EVERYTHING is taken apart on close i mean EVERYTHING its Mcdonalds and everyone knows they wont risk someone being sick from stuff that isnt clean so yeh

[Unregistered]

you people are fucked? im a shift assistant doing my BSM at a mcdonalds restaurant in Sydney we have contract cleaners 7 days a week and crew constantly checking the dining room, grills are cleaned filters taken out every day, All Vats are filtered everyday and dropped when needed, all crew MUST wash their hands if they dont they cant get on the floor until its done, over the past few months McDonalds Australia have made several changes with the product they sell such as Low Fat Shake Sundae fix, Short cut rasher bacon only breast meat mcnuggets, canola oil in all our vats, if u work in a Mcdonalds Australia store that is McOpCo (not a franchise) i seriously recommend complaing to your Store Consultant your restaurant managers boss, because in McDonalds Australia everything has to be cleaned EVERYTHING is taken apart on close i mean EVERYTHING its Mcdonalds and everyone knows they wont risk someone being sick from stuff that isnt clean so yeh

[Unregistered]

I am an MIT (Manager in Training) at a McDonalds in Minnesota. I have no idea what any of you are talking about. Those of you who are managers or employees in these stores must really be bad with communication skills the ability to maintain your own work ethic. There's nothing hard about pleasing customers, keeping crew in line, or cleaning and stocking that which needs it. You all must work for franchise stores. Corporate McDonalds like mine have a starting wage of $6.50 and that pay rapidly increases if your an outstanding employee. I've worked there for a year and a half, put in a little effort and time on the side, and I'm up to $9.50, with college being 90% paid free and clear for me, in a management major. My store is the busiest store in the northwest region, even the airport store has fallen behind, and we have no problem staying clean, keeping fresh cut and hardworking employees on the ready, or keeping customers from coming back again and again. Dont say that you have rushes that last for 3 hours, that doens't even happen here. The only way that could possibly occur is if you arent getting the orders out fast enough because your too slow and everythings getting stacked. And even then, there are always short dead periods, and it takes only a minute to mop down an entire area with approved sanitizers. What are you doing in your stores to need to complain so much? Do your job right.

[Unregistered]

Hey i posted one above you ^^

I work for a McOpCo 24/7 store (Mcdonalds Company owned) no one here has any problem with cleaning or anything or pleasing customers we were ranked 3rd in Australia for the fastest store so yeah =)

[Unregistered]

I start my training on Monday. I will be working at a brand new McDonald's here in my little town. I had worked at Sonic. If I can work at Sonic, I know I can work at McDonald's At Sonic the crew leaders physically harm you and scream at you so loud you feel as though you are in prison. I was happy yo have a job to help my disabled husband pay theb ills, but all of these stories have scared me.
Are all McDonald's really this bad ?

[Unregistered]

super size me and fast food nation. you should see the movie(SSM) and read the book(FFN).

it'll teach you something

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Hey i posted one above you ^^

I work for a McOpCo 24/7 store (Mcdonalds Company owned) no one here has any problem with cleaning or anything or pleasing customers we were ranked 3rd in Australia for the fastest store so yeah =)

in AUSTRAILIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Austrailia is obviously clean but The home of McDick has horrid conditions. very few are actually respectable

~Andrew~

[Unregistered]

mcdonalds, i hate them the stores are shit !!!!!! store 601 is the worst!

[Unregistered]

I worked for McDonalds for five months.
It's like being in prison.
I can't believe they make you beg for a bathroom break or a sip of water.
I didn't do that. If I had to go to the bathroom, I went, and if I wanted a drink, I got one.
One day after time for me to get off work, I was begging as usual if I could please go because my ride was there and I was forced to go into the walk in freezer and do work I told the boss I had already done. Someone kicked open the freezer door and WHAM, it knocked the daylights out of me and ruined my back. Now I am having to go through all kinds of x rays and dr visits and take medicine. I have to take care of my disabled husband and brother, now what am I going to do.
I took a better job with less hours due to my injury.
It pays more per hour.
Please, don't ever work for McDonalds unless you just have to and if you do, be careful because it is a dangerous place and you could get killed working there.

[crappy maccas]

F*ck you (to the above), i work at macdonalds on 5am starts and 2am finishes for 7.14 p/h... and im turning 17 in 2 months.... we get no free food or drink... when i was 15 i got 10.80 from my last employer...


Maccas is the worst place for stingy bosses who think that macdonalds doesnt come under the moral rules of employment... where staff morale is totally non existent... well u know.. after all... we are robots... not...

Oh yeah and shut the f*ck up about working 100% of the time you are there, some days i dont even get a break for 8 hour shifts...

last thing im going to do is say a nice thing about the place.... even if i wanted to it would be a lie to say the place was clean or food safe, I found a AA battery in one of our fryer vats... need i say more?...

[.......?]

learn to spell before you learn to post big dummy!

[John Doe]

McCrew member here. I've been working at McDonalds for over a year. There's not much to say about this place that's good. I work in the back (kitchen) making sandwiches and other Mcfood. Trust me, if you're going to even think about working at McDonalds, don't work in the back. You have to work under pressure all of the time. It's usually understaffed and for some reason the managers make you do all of the work, even work that the people on window (Mcslang for cash) have to do. The manager screams in your ear while you're making a dozen burgers a minute and working in a very hot place (because of the grills). Now, does that sound good to you? Oh and the people on window do barely anything. They're paid to just take orders and slack off, while people in the back are paid for taking orders, stocking up, cleaning, cleaning the bartowels, making food for future orders, completing tasks for the overnight crew (who later bitch at you for not cleaning things properly) and even more things. I once saw two people who were suppose to be working on window just standing there talking while people in the back were rushing and stressing just to get orders done. The people I work with are morons. They just slack off and expect me to do all the work or are too new to do anything. It's pathetic. Even worse, the managers have a slight tendency to like and even promote the people in the front rather than the people in the back. Okay, I just got off a shift that was suppose to end at 11, but for some reason the overnight person didn't show up, so I had to stay there untill almost 12am. The person finally comes in and bitches at me for not filling up the margerine to the top. He showed up an hour late and bitches at me after I did everything I was suppose to do, and even did some stuff for him for overnight. The manager or the overnight person didn't thank me. The window person was thanked for good "hard" work. Bullshit. He stood there while i struggled to complete orders. Oh, and if you're going to say, "well why don't you just get trained on window?", please don't. I've asked the manager for over 2 months to. He still didn't do it. Trust me, McDonalds sucks!

[aussie92]

Hi, well i'm a Mcdonalds employee with 12 months experience. Too the people that say maccas is shit , FU. lol. I work hard everytime i work with the mindset of a customer. If workers followed procedures the freshness of food isnt a problem, nor is running out.. I work about 30 hours a week as a grade ten student in australia. Illegal maybe? But i enjoy myself, the workers are awesome pretty much the only reason why im still there. I work about equally on kitchen and front counter and also do a fair bit of ordertaking/drive thru work. in addition i have won badges for good service times on back area ( fast hands). and 3 100 percent "secret shopper" awards for front counter( i try and maek the customers day better wont be scared to point out somethign funny or make a joke of one of my errors if the oppurtunity presents( independent assessment of your overall performance starts from the time that the assessor enters the door and is done without your knowledge) I think i read someone here say that back was harder than front???thats not right. have you tried to take an order from an asian lol or dealt with abuse that wasnt even your fault. i think back area is fun, i trreat it like a game, and i get competitive lol. maccas is what you make of it. to those of you who say that its dirty and workers dont give a shit, in my time at maccas i can only say that i was dissapointed with onyl a few things, unneccessaryabuse from stresssed managers and one or two lazy employees with the mindset of 'who gives a fuck'. I think my mindset is "that cud be my girlfriends mum ordering food" . ohh what else , the guy who said that back area people had to deal with extreme heatGET OVER YORUSELF, if you did your job properly you would clean the grill and have the lids down and then make sure your not leaning on any toasters and u willl be fine , dotn be a softcock haha

just some insight.
maccas teaches you alot of skills. patience, interpersonal skills in order to excel, delegation, time management, responsibility and obligation. the list goes on

ps: my store is in brisbanes western suburbs

[twatson54]

i was an overnight crew member until last night i had to walk out becuase of the flies and absolutely disgusting conditions in the store as well as brandons attitude. and the fact that he was taking multiple hours to restart the system gaquline and elijah even chrystal when shes alone can all do it within 30 mins if theyre having problems 15 if everything runs smooth. i can vouch that the store is disgusting full of flies and the sanitation score is from 2 years ago we havnt been inspected since then we'd be shut down