At last I got a job.. I needed to get a part time job desperately, I tried several places, one of which was Sainsburys.. I applied online and I didn’t realise, until I was sitting in the interview that it was a ‘temporary’ job over Christmas. And to top it off the interviewer could have won the Campest Interviewer award, I am not homophobic, I was just slightly un-easy about sitting in a small room on my own with a Dale Winton look-a-like. He was so unorganised as well, he hadn’t even put the names of the applicants on the applications so he had to ask me questions so he could find the right forms, I was more organised, and that’s saying something. Royal Mail (Royal Fail) was another interview I attended….a group interview…after about an hour, and alot of pointless paperwork they basically said No.
So after a bunch of interviews, I settled for McDonalds. I managed to get an interview easily because one of my family members knows the manager. Originally I applied online, and they emailed me back basically saying No, but when my relative asks them to give me an interview they said yes..
ANYWAY here is the 5 things I hate about working there:
5 Being new
I guess this goes for anything, being new in McDonalds (or at least, the one I work at) is horrible, your the newbie who knows nothing, everybody expects you to know how to do so and so. For example: My second week working there, I turned up for my 10 – 3 shift (that what the manager had told me over the phone) I got in about half an hour early, and the assistant manager asked me why I am late, so I replied with, in a confused voice, “I am not late?”, to which she said, “you was supposed to be here at 8″, so then the WTF factor triggered in my brain. I then found out that the shifts change weekly and that the schedule is displayed upstairs in the crew room. I hadn’t been told this until then.
4 The Management
Sure everyone hates the management, even the management hate each other, but its the management at McDonalds that I hate the most. In my eyes the management at McDonalds used to be like me, a ordinary crew member, but maybe they didn’t go to college, maybe they left college because they started earning, or maybe they are just dumb and think working for McDonalds is uber-awesome. So gradually through the wasted years working at McDonalds they got promoted, done a few managerial courses (learning how to use Microsoft Word and wearing slightly more formal clothes) and eventually became an assistant manager, who look down upon us mere mortal crew members, and are possible just that little bit jealous that we are still in college and are about to go to Uni and aren’t going to work in McDonalds for 30 years. I would just like to add, I don’t hate the people, I just hate what they do…actually I do hate some.
3 Appearance
McDonalds is a food establishment, for those of you who didn’t know. It is mandatory to wear a hair net, I have long-ish hair. I think they make the hair net deliberately small to not fit long hair, my hair is at the annoying stage where it is too long to not wear a hair net, and not long enough to tie back. So I end up looking like I have a mullet. (the management don’t wear hair nets? and they work with food too). Also, I have stretched ear lobes at 1cm, and they told me to take out my flesh tunnels because they might fall into the food, which is actually impossible unless my ear is ripped off (Possible McEar burger?). So I am standing at the till, with a mullet and a cm wide hole in both my ear lobes. It has its perks though, customers end up, when talking to me, looking straight at my ears in disgust, rather than looking into my eyes like any other normal human being (I giggle inside a little). This bring me onto the next thing I hate.
2 Customers
The customer is not always right, in fact they are never right, my motto is “get what your given”. Since when is this right: A customer, who i served, comes back to me after his meal and starts complaining that he had lent on grease whilst being served, which was impossible, he asked to see the manager, and tried to get money to pay for the coat (personally I didn’t see anything wrong with the coat other than it being dirty and old anyway). Another example, that I was told about, my friend worked in McDonalds also, and he served a customer who tried to get another free meal after eating his first one, he didn’t succeed. But the next day my friend was in another McDonalds, this time not at work, and he sees the same guy come in and try the same stunt. So my friend walks up to him and says, “you don’t remember me do you?”. There is three types of customers: old people, foreign people, young people (nice people must go to Burger King or something). The old people are kind, but too kind, too kind that it gets creepy, the foreign people try to order a Double Deluxe which doesn’t exist in England (I like to surprise them by saying ‘merci’) and the young people are just rude and think they are better than a stupid McDonalds worker.
1 Shouting
There is a hell of allot of shouting in a McDonalds restaurant, most orders are sent from the till to a computer screen near the cooks, but some little annoying foods don’t go through, so you have to shout over to the cooks to tell them what you want, which, in my opinion, is lame.
So there it is, 5 things I hate about working at McDonalds. I have to tell them tomorrow that i need next week off (for uni open day), I hope I haven’t left it too late. I have made a picture off what it is like (kind of).
That isn’t me in the photo by the way..
