How hard is it to work at McDonalds??

[Jim Oaks]

We have to have the worst McDonalds here in Salem, Lisbon, and Columbiana Ohio. I've been to each and have experienced a problem where the kid putting the Big Macs together has no clue what he's doing. I had the hamber patties laying on top of each other with the middle bun and top bun together with nothing in between it.

My first job was at a Mc Donalds back in the 80's. You actually flipped burgers back then. It didn't seem that hard.

I complained to the manager before and showed him the sandwiche. He asked the kid to make a new one and never even told him he screwed up.

McDonalds has been going down the toilet for years. I think their breakfast is the only thing keeping them afloat.

What kind of future do you have when you can't even figure out how to put a Big Mac together???

 

[cody93]

the breakfast is the only thing there remotely edible, McGriddles FTW, i get my burgers at BurgerKing. altho mcdonald fish burgers are usually eddible and that what i get when ever i have to eat there. as for that kid who fails at burger, i know a job were he can start at the top! there will always be holes that need to be dug out..

 

[getrdone52]

Only thing I get at McDonald's is the McDouble. Can't go wrong with that.

 

[Insanejughead]

Fountain drinks never get messed up for me. Hahaha.


Jim, sorry about the shitty experience. Thankfully you know how to cook some awesome food for yourself.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

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.

The current unemployment situation doesn't help either, when you can sit on unemployment indefinitely and be making more money a month than you could say working at McD's, why be bothered with working, ehh?

And don't even get me started on the manual labor aspect of things... If a person from my generation or younger has to use a shovel, they'll whine constantly about it and work incredibly slowly. "why can't we use the machine." "it's hot." "this is hard." "i'm tired." "this ground is way too hard."......... shut the _____ up and dig....

I don't even want to think of where things are headed if this is the future.....

 

[rangerbum]

Now, I've never worked at a mcdonalds, but, seeing the high percentage of error makes me think the difficulty level is somewhere between brain surgery or chemical engineering.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Too many people think they are entitled to high pay and all the perks without working for them. I think a lot of that is instilled in the youth by their parents wanting to do better for their children by making life easier for the child than it was for the parent. We all end up paying for that mistaken way of upbringing. Of course, I'm not truly in the know as I have no children of my own, but just my observation through 30 years of working for others and my own company. And don't get me wrong, there are still people willing to work, it seems like there's less of them tho. That might be because there IS less of youth in general. That will make the sense of entitlement worse, as there will be less people to choose your workforce from.

Richard

 

[fix_or_repair_daily]

Our Mc Donalds here is terrible also. You can go to a sit down and order restaurant and get your food faster and have it actually be correct. Most of the people working there are morbidly obese and move at less than snail speed. Once in a while enough people throw a fit with the management or call the 1 800 line to bitch, and it gets a lot better for about a month or two. Then it goes back to the same crap again. I have seen people wait in line, order and pay for their food, and get pissed off because of the long wait and leave before their food is done and they end up giving it away. It is pretty common for people wait 20 minutes or even more for their order. Fast food, huh? We eat there less and less because of the piss poor service and quality of the food.

Josh

 

[shane96ranger]

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.

 

[doorgunner]

amen to all of the above..........I go to Sonic now...they put mickyD's breakfast to shame....plus i get to smack all I want in my little red Ranger!


RONALD.....YOU'RE GETTING AS SLOPPY AS THE BURGER KING!

 

[Twister]

McDonalds cannot be hard to work at. I have a friend who was a Dm (disctrict manager) who went from burger king to McDonalds and he was shocked at how easier McDonalds runs then burger king.

This is how he explained it to me. Burger king has about 8-10 employees to work a lunch shift. Every person helps out everywhere to get the job done, it is cheaper labor but more work on the employees. Now McDonalds does it a different way, for a typical McDonalds lunch they have anywhere from 16-20 employees working. Each of the 16-20 employees McDonalds has on, each one has a different job, if you are assigned to fries, then all you do is fries.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

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.

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.

 

[cody93]

i have a brickphone and im only 18... come to think of it, i was the only kid in highschool with a portable cassette player(remeber those?) screw the iTard generation, i wana go back in time, my generation sucks, to many slackers.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Fountain drinks never get messed up for me. Hahaha.

Well, in drive thru I have gotten iced tea instead of Hi-C...

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.

People have been saying that kind of thing for decades, my great grandfather used to get a big kick out of it. He said the grown ups were saying the same thing about his generation when he was growing up (he was born in 1910)

To be quite honest I don't know how big of a difference in development copying crap out of a book is than off the internet.

As far as free downloads go, they were really big when I was in high school around 10 years ago. When they killed the free Napster deal and threw heavy fines at a bunch of kids I think as a whole they put a big dent in it.

If you want to screw with your kids get them into board drafting. Nothing like chipping the ink and top layer of paper away with a razor to cement doing it right the first time.

i have a brickphone and im only 18... come to think of it, i was the only kid in highschool with a portable cassette player(remeber those?) screw the iTard generation, i wana go back in time, my generation sucks, to many slackers.

I was there when that stuff was cool... I don't think any of it is is anymore. My Razor VE-20 is 20x the phone my old Nokia was (although it doesn't have free games on it) Battery life and reception is off the charts better. I stream radio off the internet at work so I don't have to listen to commercials or the same 10-15 songs (of which I only liked maybe 5 on any given album) My Ranger didn't even have a cassette player for the first year I had it (only AM/FM), now it is on its third CD player than runs off of a thumbdrive.

 

[02RangerXLT]

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.