How hard is it to work at McDonalds??

[--weezl--]

It's not just McD's either, I've been seeing that sort of work ethic (if you can call it that) by a growing number of youth that seem completely oblivious. It pains me to see that most of my generation and younger are turning out to be completely helpless and utterly useless. And I have heard a number of companies complaining that they "can't find good help anymore" and that they're constantly training new hires. I think part of the problem there is that nobody wants to pay anybody what they are worth - minimum wage just doesn't cut it - especially since a lot of retail stores only want to hire part time help and if the sales numbers are not up there for the entire region, they want to cut hours and send people home. So not only are you getting low wages, but you're also often not getting enough hours to be able to pay your bills.

i think you hit the nail on the head here, to a certain extent... lets use me for an example... i work full time at a home improvement store (which i won't name) now i work quite hard, i wouldn't say i give 100% every day, but honestly, who does? i would say i give about 80% on a daily basis, now on top of that, i have only taken maybe 2-3 coffee breaks in the past 2 months, because i'm so busy trying to get work done, between managing ongoing special orders (making sure product comes in) contacting customers to finish the order for an installed sale that's half completed, helping customers that are in the aisles, and cutting blinds down to size, while customers wait, i have virtually no time... i do take my lunch breaks, which i MUST do, or i'll get in HUGE trouble... on top of doing all of the above i cover off in the paint department, paint, windows and walls, and home organization is 3 separate departments, though they are run by one department manager, home organization has 0 staff, they never have had any, and they never will, it's an unstaffed department, it's directly behind mine, which is windows and walls, and paints is next door... today, there were 3 people in the paint department, and i was by myself, no one else was in the department at all while the store was open... now, i did get a LITTLE bit of help from the other employees, but for the most part, i was on my own... who is expected to look after the home organization department? of course it's not the department with 3 people for 3 aisles, it's the department with twice as many items, with services that take 10x longer than it does to mix paint, in the same number of aisles... so that brings me to 5 aisles with probably 5x as many items in them, as the paint department, which has 3x as much staff on at any time...

additionally, what do i get paid? well, enough that on top of working my 40 hours a week here, i also have to work a second job, picking up shifts doing security, because my total disposable income, after truck, insurance, and rent is paid is 670$, and out of that, i have my gas for my truck, food, bills, including my credit card, and overdraft, cellphone... that ends up with me to be able to buy about a case a beer a month with what's left over...

take a look 50 years ago... for the most part, women DID NOT work, it was the men going out to work a 40 hour a week job, and supporting his family of 4+ on that... i barely get paid enough to support myself! it's not really a huge wonder that people are discouraged... i can only imagine that mcdonalds pays less than i'm making... and i'm doing a job that is not for teenagers... the amount of mental focus required to learn my job, and be able to manage all the different tasks at once, is not for someone who can't remember "2 all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun" and the order they go on... most of the people who work where i do, are in their mid 20's and older... we have a few retirement people, and a lot of part time people in university, but for those who work full time, they don't live at home, they don't have someone supporting them, they are trying to be the bread winner... and sadly, this just doesn't cut it... and there isn't really much that pays significantly more than this... any more i make i lose to taxes...

i took a 10$ an hour cut coming to this job from my previous (granted there was a year of unemployment between) and sadly, i'm only making maybe 300-350 less a cheque than i did at the last one... where i was making almost double an hour, and didn't have deductions, because i was "part time" but working full time hours...

 

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

Breakfast burritos FTW.

I like Big Macs too, but they're hit and miss as far as quality goes.

 

[shane96ranger]

You forgot the part where they spend a significant portion of time on their f@#$%^& cellphone texting or screwing around on the internet....

I've had a ton of people amazed that I just have a "basic" flip phone (I'd still be using the old Nokia "bar" or "brick" phone if I could). I think it'll do basic internet stuff but I have no interest in trying to use it. Nor do I spend all day texting. If you send me a text, it gets answered when I get around to it. If you text me and I try immediately calling you only to have you not answer but send me a text, you will be ignored for the rest of the day.

You know, this will show how my memory is at times, but now that you reminded me this exact thing happened to me just yesterday. All I ordered was a large Coke and Diet Coke (because I think McD's Coke is the best). I was the ONLY person in the drive thru, and she asks "what did you order again?". I couldn't even spit it out, and some 50 cent or some shit starts spewing out of her phone..... and she ANSWERED it. Instead of getting me my change, she proceeds to tell her friend that "I shoulda been off, like, 10 minutes ago, but I'm still here, I hate working here". At this point my wife yells from the passenger seat "hey, do you want to hang up your damn phone and do your job?".

Yeah, this is a problem folks.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

If any of ya'll come to Nebraska, eat at RUNZA... you won't regret it. Burger King is the shitty scrapings of grease on the bottom of the grill compared to RUNZA.

This feller right here knows what he is talking about.

Good help always has been hard to find. I work with a guy that is really pretty worthless, I could go on and on... he is over 50 years old and keeps his track-phone locked in his truck. He still finds ways to make himself if not worthless, less than worthless. He would be gone in a heartbeat but they can't find anybody that is any better.

 

[cody93]

you know, cellphone jammers aren't hard to make

its basicly a radio transmitter broadcasting on the cellular frequencies..

if yal are in missouri, check out steak n shake, they got some good stuff!

 

[Sunk]

I am proud to be one of the few young people who aren't afraid to work. Shortly after I was hired, my boss asked how old I was. This was last year, so I said 21. He was blown away and thought I was around 30. There are a few guys I work with who are that age, and they're the guys I hang out with, and work with the most. I never could understand how he could think I was that much older until we hired a few "kids" that are my age. They rarely show up to work dressed properly and are often caught texting throughout the day.

I tell ya, kids these days...

 

[--weezl--]

you know, cellphone jammers aren't hard to make

its basicly a radio transmitter broadcasting on the cellular frequencies..

if yal are in missouri, check out steak n shake, they got some good stuff!

highly illegal in many places, which, based off of a short google search, includes all of the united states, under FCC part 15

 

[wrecking-crew]

I think I was lucky how I grew up. My dad owns part of the family business, and what he gets can pay the bills. It's getting harder with the economy the way it is and seeing how the recycled products are not needed as much but a place to dump them is. Since I was not needed there and it was truthfully getting boring doing what little work I could to make it nicer, I took the job offering from the local Ford dealership. I am working part time there as a tech. I admit to slacking a little at work, but I try my best.

I have just about every fast food place within a 2 miles of the dealership except the one I want; Chick-fil-a which has, hands down, the best service. They deliver the food to your table when eating in there. Service at all of them is decent. Noticed one thing though; No kids work there.

 

[shane96ranger]

highly illegal in many places, which, based off of a short google search, includes all of the united states, under FCC part 15

Heck yeah they are. It is a violation of FEDERAL law, not a State law.

 

[gjm4l]

Yep it's not Mcd's itself it's the wanna work of people these days. Super weird how the economy sucks and 1 in 10 people don't have jobs but the people who do especially in the minimum wage jobs just don't even try. I had to work at a ryans steak house for minimum wage a lil over a year ago and in 6 months I went from dishwasher to bar runner to cook, to break fast manager because I go to work to WORK so I gave a darn. For the last three years I was a trip leader at a white water rafting outfitter and we had alot of 18-25's (I'm only 26) and it was stupid. Real simple, holy crap fun job. You get to go rafting every single day! If not at least be next to a river every day! and soooo many of these "kids" would disappear as quick as we would get off the river and it was time for work. All we do is prepare gear for the day, get guests ready to go rafting, GO RAFTING Get back and either prep gear/boats for the next trip or put them away for the day. After trips you say bye to your guests then get started and outta say 8 guides I would always have at least 2 disappear. I would literally find them hiding in the raft barn, one girl was notorious for hiding in the women's locker room until it was time for the next trip to start. Freaking hiding from 15min worth of work They thought they signed up to just get in the raft at the top and get a $100 dollar tip at the bottom and go home.

Literally made one guy quit because he didn't want to work. Purposely left 50 5 man rafts(hr of work with 2 people) for him at the end of the day (cause he hid all day but was on the clock) so kid went to clock out and I took him back and said sure you and I just have to finish loading these rafts and he got so mad he quit right there on the spot, little turd even tried to plead his case to the the River manager who was my good friend

Don't know whats up with people these days. I ain't the brightest but I'm damn sure not scared of work. You name it I've run it, Mexican backhoe(shovel), Mexican dumptruck(wheelbarrow) Mexican forklift/crane(pick it up pansy!) and the list goes on.

We're in for a hurting if something doesn't change with people expecting to get everything they want for nothing. Everybody now gets a reward just for showing up you got D's all though school here's a brand new $40k beamer for you son Have fun! My dad made me work for my first car and it was hard so I'll never put you though that......
I could go on FOREVER but I think I should stop this is getting to be a novel lol

 

[Jim Oaks]

Being in a management position, I get a lot of advertisements for seminars and other material on managing people. Most of it I disregard, but one article caught my eye a couple months ago. This guy that wrote it refers to this generation coming into the workforce as the "Ipod Generation". He says that these kids have been so used to having everything done for them such as homework assignment research (google, etc.) and never having to work to purchase anything like a movie or CD (free downloads), that they have ZERO work ethic coming into the workforce.

I have had a few individuals like this that I've had to manage. And it is very difficult. Trying to explain why things happen in a certain order just puzzles the hell out of them.

I'm half tempted to buy a damn type writer just so my kids can go through the frustrations of not having spell check, and having to use white out for every mistake. I really feel like I need make my kids do some things the hard way, just so they can take their knocks in life.

My 16 year old daughter irritates me sometimes. She doesn't want to do anything for her. It's her moms fault. When she's with me I make her do things for herself.

I thought of this thread tonight because she called me and asked if I would keep an eye online for Justin Beiber to do a concert in the US, but she's online all the time.

She struggles with homework because she can't find the answers. I look in her book and can find them. She never reads the chapters. When I was in scholl we read the chapters outloud in class. You better know where the person reading left off if the teacher calls you to read next. I asked both of my kids and they told me they don't read the chapters.

I think there was a movie out where people became so damn stupid because computers were doing everything for them. You really have to wonder what future generations will be like.

 

[--weezl--]

the nicest car that was ever given to me was my mustang, and my dad bought it for me, it cost 2400$, and some of that came out of my pocket... most of it my dad's... then there was my 1500$ torino, and a 200$ tempest (not in any order)

the $200 tempest my dad bought for himself, to commute, got his wagoneer running correctly, and stopped driving it, so he gave me the keys... told me it's mine if i want to put insurance on it when it expired... (was pretty excited)

the mustang i never paid him back for, even though that was the deal, and that was about 7 years ago, the torino we ended up selling together for a little more than we bought it for (read he bought it) and he kept 100% of that money, the maintenance on all 3 were 100% out of my pocket, with the exception of some work on the mustang when i blew a headgasket, i had to drop about a grand into it, to finish the work... (both heads checked and planed, 2 new head gaskets, new valves, new valve springs, new valve seals, new timing chain, new water pump, new belt... new upper end gaskets... at this point i replaced every gasket and seal on the car, except the throttle body, the rear main, and the oil pan gasket)

i paid for about 1/2 the parts, my dad paid for the rest... since then everything is 100% out of my pocket, purchasing, insurance, registration, repairs, maintenance...

though there was one exception recently where my ei stopped without warning, and i had to find a job, i was 1 month behind on bills when money started flowing, and i needed to borrow $300 from my mom to make ends meet... that was paid back within 1 month...

i will say having an older car has allowed me to appreciate the value of things, it's probably not the same if i had to purchase my own first car, and second, and third, with no help... but that being said, i didn't benefit from any of them financially, in any aspect, none of those vehicles were sold, with a dime going to me...

oh, he bought my bII... that he kept the scrap money from, i kept the tires... (we [he] bought it for $100 for the 31" mudders)

my mustang would have been the first car i profited from, on a sale, that i didn't buy, but i just finished dealing with the police investigation regarding it's theft, and all of the named suspects, couldn't really be held accountable... not enough evidence... that was last week... it was "found" to have been stolen in july...

 

[chrwilkins30]

i know im 18 and everyone i work with are lazy. I had to unfortunately push carts manually not with a machine for minimum wage. i would constantly be pushing 40 carts by myself while others are sitting around texting and on phones. but that's probably why i was the newest of 8 and they are still out there and i'm now promoted in the store. they always said "i don't even need this job" and where a bunch of rich kids.

 

[doorgunner]

weezl!

snap out of it!

Don't dump the thread yet!

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<look at me--I'm still focused!

 

[--weezl--]

yeah, but in all fairness, you just got here! i've been here for 2 pages already...

though i do really get off topic easily... still, DAMN KIDS!

our mcdonalds up here actually are pretty good... but that's because our labor laws SUCK! essentially, you can be fired for anything at any time, with nothing more than 2 weeks notice if you're full time, they do not even have to give you a reason...

if you're part time or casual, you can be told at the end of your shift you are now unemployed, with NO compensation...

as a result, people tend to keep their noses clean a little better, because they don't want to get canned for sneezing on a burger

i could go for a burger... but i've already eaten my daily alotment of money