If they love to see us smile, why are they so stupid? I can't believe the level of stupidity that the employees there hold. No matter what you order, they invariably find some way to screw it up. Even if they have what you want, there's a good chance they will mess something up about your order. I see no reason to not have the local McDonald's as a sucka.
Why is the local McDonald's a sucka?
Employees make minimum wage.
Apple pie is a rarity after 4pm.
For a few months, they didn't have a McFlurry mixer.
They never seem to be able to get an order right.
The employees are really stupid.
MrFood's Satirical Essay
I went to McDonald's for a job because I thought it'd be a good opportunity to make some new friends and bring in some extra spending cash. While the latter was true, the former was...not. It's hard to make friends when somone recieves the hostility I've received.
It's a miracle I've been able to keep from going off at one of them in the past 5 weeks I've been there. Their contradictary, hypocritical, and senseless ways of doing things has caused me to consider leaving them. Contradictary: Many times I've gotten yelled at for not dropping fries, but when its New Years Eve, I get yelled at for dropping fries. I wish they would make up their minds. I'm sure that just because we were closing within the next four hours, people will just stop coming? Get real. Hypocritical: I talk to my friends who are working, while working and get yelled at. But it's OK for a manager or someone else who decided to stay at that place for more than two months to play hockey with a broom, a fallen hamburger bun, and a dust pan. Senseless: I went to the back to get stocking supplies, leaving another worker at window. I came back to a choleric manager asking me why I left window unattended. Then she tells me she sent the other kid to lobby after I left, but before I came back. She yells at me for leaving it unattended when she told the only person there to go somewhere else? Another reason I can't stand working there anymore is the hours got cut. Remember when I said I went there so I could make extra cash? Well, it's hard to do that when I only work 5 hours a week. I could make more in a prison.
The mindset at McDonald's is, "If I didn't see it, it didn't happen." I dropped 2 baskets of fries, but the manager didn't see it. Does this mean that those 2 baskets revert to their original position in the fry hopper? 10 minutes later, I got yelled at to drop fries because I hadn't done it in the 30 minutes that had passed since lunch started.
I tried to take a sandwhich from the holding area and get snapped at by drive-thru because it was for them. I can't constantly be watching what goes to drive through and what does not. Contrary to what they think, people do not have eyes in the back of their heads. Then they told me the drive through times are slow because I keep taking "their" food. Since when does one time allow them to use the phrase "keep doing it?" All they're doing is finding a scapegoat for their poor performance.
And whats with the deal of being a "window?" When I put on my uniform do I lose my identity and become a number? Apparently so. What's worse, I don't even know what number I'll be on any given day. Some days I'm number 2, other days I'm number 4. Besides, if they were gonna give their employees numbers, they should make them cool numbers or number-letter combinations. But would that confuse them? Maybe they can't comprehend anything more than one syllable so they call us by number and not name. Is that why Drew is still Drew, and Nick is still Nick? Maybe I should have my name legally changed to Dave or John so I don't hinder their mental processes through the long day of putting food in a bag or sitting on a chair.
And they yell at the "windows," (or should I say people that don't have monosyllablistic names?) because they can't read. Some lady ordered a double cheeseburger value meal without onions. I got it for her and she says she wanted the two cheeseburger value meal. I told grill to make two cheeseburgers without onions and get immediately yelled at by an irate grill worker because there are two cheeseburgers without onions and without pickles. Since when does no onions also mean no pickles?
Another gripe I have is the way they run their scheduling. Instead of posting a sheet of paper on the wall, why don't they just hand the employees a piece of paper that has their hours on it? It's a lot simpler. And they shouldn't complain because someone can't work for 3 days out of a month. Their scheduling sheet must have at least 45 people on it and they tell me I'm the only person available on any given day? All arrangements for a day off must be made 2 weeks before that day comes. Isn't it hard to do that when someone has only worked there one day, and the days they need off are on the next weekend?
I've actually encouraged people to not work for them. The business is run so impersonally, anyone who would even consider working for them must be delusional. Maybe they think they'll be part of the "team." What, actually, is "the team?" Is it the four out of every five employees they don't yell at because they are doing their job poorly? I've tried my hardest to become part of this "elite" group, but they obviously want no part of it.
The way they always look irritated is comical at best. I asked to see my schedule and recieve a sharp sigh followed by an acerbic yes. Don't they want their employees to know when they're supposed to work, or would they rather have them miss their shift and yell at them later?
Some grill workers just need to learn how to deal with people and quit whining. Some guy ordered a sausage egg and cheese biscuit value meal without cheese. There is no value meal that is just a sausage egg and biscuit. The grill worker for that shift wasted time by coming up to me and telling me that a sausage egg and cheese biscuit without cheese, is a sausage and egg biscuit. My God, it was my first day on breakfast window and even I know there is no value meal that specifies every single type of grilled sandwich combination available. Maybe we should, though, just to please grill. But, "I'd like a number three thousand seven hundred and eighty-four with a coke," just doesn't seem like it'd help the productivity any time soon.
I bet they wish they had telekinesis. So many times I've been told to clean lobby but then get yelled at for not noticing a customer. I guess they wish their employees has X-Ray vision too. I can't see through walls! I'm sure they wish all their employees were Inspector Gadget the way they expect us to reach 10 feet while taking an order during lunch rush to drop fries. The people in drive through are mere inches from it and they tell the "windows" they don't have time to do it themselves? They also expect us to know everything about the restaurant and how to do everything right from the start. I've seen many new people get yelled at for not knowing how to do something they weren't even trained to do. If anything, we should be yelling at them for the lousy training they give to new people. If they actually told us to do more than one thing on our first day, instead of yelling at us when they wanted us to do it for the first time, maybe this problem wouldn't exist. I've never had this particular problem, but I've seen other people experience it.
Overall, McDonald's is a terrible place to work. I'm not the only one who think so, either. I've heard stories about McDonald's job experiences and how much the people telling the stories hated the job.
