r/McDonaldsEmployees

Had this lady come in through the drive-thru and ask for “a cheeseburger with no cheese” so I was like “ok so you want a hamburger?” .. “no, I want a cheeseburger with no cheese!” and at that point I realized it wasn’t worth my energy so, yes, you can have a cheeseburger with no cheese lady 😭

I'm a manager and work 8-9 hour shifts and also go to cosmetology school right before my shifts. I want to be healthier and cut out my crew meals but due to never being home it's hard, any advice on some kind of meal prep I could bring?

I'm so tired of only eating oatmeal and burritos to not gain weight.

So I’m a fairly new DM. I’ve got the schedules, recognition, and times down, but I’m struggling with coming up with topics to keep my Crew Trainers and PLX engaged.
Before I took this position they had no structure or meetings. Kind of would find out they were training someone at the same time the new person met them.
My team of Crew Trainers and PLX are amazing, but we’re all still learning and adjusting to these changes especially monthly meetings. I go over wins, areas of opportunity, and upcoming stuff for the restaurant. At the end I also ask an open ended question for all to respond to and create a conversation, but it doesn’t read over well. For example in January I asked what their personal goal was as a leader in the restaurant and they all just copied each other’s one worded answers.
I feel like a lot of it is that they all work different shifts and speak to each other casually, but don’t feel like a team.
I’m seeking advice on how to get them engaged and excited again especially as we roll into summer. I was really leaning into games that could teach communication and teamwork. I would like to know if anyone here does something similar and how you tie it to the job.
Thank you!

Everyone should have seen it coming. Warning: long post incoming.

Last week, I went to a job interview and I got it. I'd be getting paid more than $4 an hour, PTO, insurance with hours I want. It's a little bit different than anything I've done before but I feel it's worth leaving my comfort zone, especially when my "default" mood has been just angry lately. I told my manager some time ago I was looking for other work and she laughed it off but I wasn't joking.

The problem is, she's the type of person who takes it personally when people quit. I'll be frank: we get along but sometimes she gets on my nerves. She whines about never having enough staff because the environment drives everyone away and she compares people who have only been working there for two days to people who have been working there for years and then gets pissy when they basically say GFY and dip.

I'm sorry, but nobody coming here to work is going to experience the same attachment you have just because you work literally every single day and it's the only job you've ever had. Not everyone here is friends with the franchise owner or her family. Nobody wants to work here for years and have to experience a traumatic life event in order to maybe get a few weeks' PTO and that's just because the owner likes you.

Nobody coming here is going to decide it's worth it barely scraping to get by because *you* worked there for 20 years and obviously enjoy it enough to voluntarily spend 11 hours of your life here daily and then complain about it. The world isn't going to end because you took a day off.

Sometimes, I feel like this person works all these hours so she can feel like she's needed or she likes to hold it against people how hard she works and it rubs me the wrong way. The reality is, all the adults here with any sort of responsibilities have to work 50+ hours a week to afford to live or they're forced to take second jobs because working a regular 40 hour week here ain't cutting it.

When I asked for 40 hours a week, it felt like a battle. I'm still only scheduled 39 hours but I try to stay late when I get the chance so I can get a little overtime. It doesn't make a difference. She tried talking me into changing my availability to six days a week, but like I said, I'm already miserable. Why put myself through that if I can work somewhere with better wages and offers benefits that would allow me to improve my life situation? My teeth are fucked up, I gotta go to the dentist because it's getting harder for me to eat without experiencing pain. I need to learn to drive but I gotta get a physical to get my permit. These things just aren't possible to pay for out of pocket. My boyfriend has been out of work the last couple months, so I've been trying to help out by paying gas money on top of pay bills and groceries and by the end of every two weeks, my bank account is back in the single digits because I'm having a hard time staying current after losing my prior job.

Like I said, I don't drive yet, so I'm at the mercy of other people for transportation. I'd rather just work longer hours on days I'm scheduled than work an extra day because that's just more driving for everybody else. Gas is almost $5 a gallon here.

The other problem is I'm "just a prep cook", which kinda resulted in a meltdown last week. People are being nicer to me, probably only because I snapped the fuck out in the cooler and management heard what I was saying. This was brushed off as me just being on my period and she also hasn't stopped bringing it up since it happened, which comes across as really passive aggressive.

I feel like part of the reason the GM was so reluctant to give me full time hours is because I'm "just a prep cook", but I'm their only prep cook. Last week I got pissed because people are constantly minimizing my role to "just a prep cook" but I am constantly doing something, whether it be washing dishes, prepping, thaw pulls, rolling burritos, cleaning the equipment or scrubbing toilets and my manager likes to act like I'm just singing with the all the little woodland creatures back there like I'm a fucking Disney princess. I have a whole list of time-consuming tasks and it's overwhelming trying to keep up. I can spitball and it'd land on someone standing there with their shoes off and eating and yet I'm always pulled away from my tasks and nobody does anything on my day off. They just let everything run out. There's always an excuse nothing gets done. It makes me wonder how this place functioned before they hired me, or they've just gotten lazy because I'm here now.

God forbid I may need a few days off or two days off in a row. What would happen if I went on vacation? Would they just let the store run out of everything?

So yeah, cliffnotes version: I'm nervous about telling my manager I'm quitting because I know she isn't going to handle the news well. How would you let someone like that know you're done?

I attended an interview today and unsure how it went!

Me and the interviewer shared mutual respect and she said I did well on the interview. She says she is going to let me know in 1 or 2 days if I get hired or not.

Sounds great right?. Well not really, there was at least 2/3 other people being interviewed. And she said to me “Don’t be disheartened if you are turned down because it will be due to availability”. However, I’m available every day from around 4PM-11PM. So I’m unsure, she took my uniform sizes and uniform preferences I assume just Incase. But I saw her doing that with the other interviewer.

After the main interview I did a trial of ten minutes behind the counter and I got told I did very well with the employee I was working with.

So I suppose I’m asking, does it sound like I’m getting hired? Or rejected. And has anyone gone through the same?

This girl Thats been showing how to make drinks who’s a really good trainer told me to make a mocha frappe on my own this time and I made the frappe explode on accident🫩. I feel like a dumbass and they said “It happens” but Im pretty sure they were talkin sum shit. I genuinely wanna die. I ain’t built for this.

I haven’t been working at McDonald’s for long less than a month… But I just noticed that after the schedule is posted usually Thursdays changes get made over the weekend and on Mondays. Is this a common thing? Because I schedule my day around my shifts and when they get changed out of nowhere it messes with my day. Does this happen at other locations.

First Update: my son (who is 18) talked to the GM today, as well as the other kid. The GM told them that he hadnt heard of this and would look into it. I'll update again if I hear anything

My son started working at McDonald's two days ago. On his second day, he was training at the drive through window, alongside another employee. I guess the training employee handed my son too much money to give back to the customer, to a total of 24$ extra. My son didn't count what he was given, so he says it's his fault.

The manager told my son and the training employee that they had to cover it. They each zelled the manager 12$.

Is that legal, or something McDonald's does? Ive never worked at a corporate place, but at the restaurant I work at, we would just eat the cost. Reprimand the employee, talk about what happened.

So last week, around wensday I came in late due to traffic. I ordered through the mcdonalds app and kept on trying to get it through during work. Multiple times my manager who gave ma additude, when I first arrived (but I feel like it more me taking her way of showing me things during tranning) told me to stop using my phone multiple times. After getting a warning and saying I would be terminated if I use my phone again, I stopped using it and participated in helping out the other workers. Through due to my lack of tranning by others I couldln't do much. During a slow time I went into the break room to call my dad to pick me up, then my manager just found me and told me she was gonna call the head manager. I was only able to use the phone if I notified her?

Should I negotiated back over phone usage?

TLDR. Possibly got fired, since on wednesday I used my phone too much. Should I renegogiate my position.

Hi everyone, just wanting to know if most McDonald's in British Columbia, Canada, do in-person job interviews, because I'd rather do in-person instead of online.

Also, does anyone know how long it usually takes for McDonald's to reply to job applications?

Any help is appreciated :D

So I’ve been working the front for 6 shifts now I think, and I got told I am going to be switched to the window/headset/drive through maybe tomorrow or the next day. I am going to switch to night shift next week. Does anyone have any advice? I’m pretty nervous because the drive through is always so much busier than the front and I’m worried I’ll mess up a lot.