r/McDonaldsEmployees

I went during the time frame they “allow” us to come pick up our paychecks. I’ve been asking for weeks for someone to help me with my direct deposit information because the app won’t let me put it in myself for some reason. No help because I’m overnights and we just kind of get tossed to the wind and nothing is ever taken care of for us. Anyways, I went to pick up my paycheck, noticed it was pretty busy and decided to wait a bit. Waited in my car for about 20 minutes before I went inside. Get in there and the assistant manager looks at me and says “not to be an asshole but you’re not getting it right now. Look at my screens”. That’s not my problem. My cats need food and I have things I need to do on my scheduled pay day? So I said “that’s fine I’m willing to wait so I’ll just go sit in the back and you can get it when you have a moment”. They looked at me and said “well that’s probably going to be a few hours or more so there’s no point in waiting.” So I left without my paycheck and I have no clue when I’ll be getting it. Mind you, they’re the one who does the scheduling & they’re notorious for scheduling themselves alone and they end up rushed and overwhelmed. And everytime this manager says “not to be an asshole”, they sound like an extreme asshole. I don’t see how being busy is my issue. Not sure how to handle this but I have an issue with being told I can’t have my paycheck when it’s payday.

Let me explain the title....

Back when I first started, there was this lady, P ( no it's not my cousin, it's just her name starts with P). P would be the one that would send me on breaks and make sure that someone did cover my shift while I was on break. But that did change when she quit McD's. Then another lady would send me on breaks but no one would cover for me while I was on break, so that put me behind but that didn't last long.

As much as I would like to take my breaks. I'm afraid I can't because I already know that no one will take over for me and the last time I did have a break I think it was almost 2 months ago. I don't remember what date it was but I know it was a Sunday.

Honestly I feel like at this rate I'll get burned out. Because I'm just working through my whole shift without a break. I'm not good with confrontation, so would it be better if I wrote a letter to my GM about this or should I go to my supervisor when they visit? If I do write a letter, what should I say to address the matter?

EDIT: "Resolved" so to speak. Thank you!

Hello McDs employees!

I daily take a relative through the drive thru to get a large iced coffee with one cream and no sugar, and 80% of the time they end up doing extra cream or the full normal amount. Relative is very picky about it and insists on sending it back, sometimes multiple times.

It's annoying to everyone, I feel awful for the employees and it's a waste of coffee! Is there a trick to helping them understand what she's after? ONE pump of cream, not the 5 (my understanding) that's normally in a large iced.

Thank you!

Like should I bring a CV with my qualifications on it, reference contact information. Or like what should I be prepared for

I have an interview for McDonald's tomorrow and know they'll probably ask why I want the job. Are there any key words or anything that should guarantee getting the job? What did you guys say to get your jobs?

Jeg skal starte om to dage som ungarbejder og er ret spændt og nervøs. Jeg starter som grillmaster hvilket lyder vel sjovt nok haha. Jeg ville egentlig høre om nogle gode råd til en der lige starter på maccen?

Tak!

We were out of quarter pounders,milk, chocolate milk,big arch buns,huntrix meals and apple juice HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN 😭

Hi! I am actually just about to end my 90 day probation and I have already been cross trained in counter and grill AND freshly promoted to crew trainer. (I'm super hyped!) I even got employee of the month on my first full month of being at the store. Things are looking pretty good and I have even heard that some higher ups have been talking about me in a positive way. I have been doing training modules, cbls, all the hamburg university stuff at home to set up qualifications for myself so I can help out with things more around the store. (I had like ~93 done in my first few weeks and everyone was really surprised.) I feel like I'm a pretty good employee, and I have gotten consistent praise from my managers/supervisors but is there anything that you could offer as a tip or piece of advice to help me do more? I feel pretty confident with order taking and drinks (and there has been a few times where I have needed to do both lanes and make drinks at the same time, but I feel like I handled it as well as I could given how busy things can be). I also have freshly trained a new employee and I feel like she will do extremely well because she is getting similar praise because she has learned to copy me in a good way. She knows how to upsell, multitask efficiently, and I was even able to leave her to be mostly independent while I ran drink station and she was at first window (I still was listening in and would stop to help her when needed).

Sorry if this post is a bit all over the place, but to make things short: What advice do you have for climbing the ranks at Mcdonald's? Do you have any tips or tricks that have worked for you? Is there anything I can do to set me apart from other people in a good way?

So I’ve been at my store for just over two years now and I know every station and im apparently the next in line for a promotion to crew trainer and im always on time and clean.

Anyways the managers have gotten into this weird habit and I don’t know if it’s because im great at my job and they’re watching me for a promotion or because they genuinely want to punish me.

They’ll offer early days to everyone on the shop floor and send people home extra early but then they’ll practically beg me to stay an extra hour or half an hour. On Friday we had a rgrv and I got out 10 minutes late but they sent some new guy home half an hour early. On Saturday I was meant to finish at 11 and asked if I could go and the closing manager said no because we are understaffed, after countless arguing I agreed to stay on because she’s the type to write me up if I didn’t, however before this the 3-11 manager sent like 4 people home early.

Same thing happened yesterday. I was on a half 3 until half 10 shift and they asked early on if I could stay on and I said I’ll see (idk how to drive yet so rely on buses that are every half an hour and come at very specific times). Some guy who was meant to finish at half 8 went home at 19:50, some girl who was meant to finish at 11 went home at like 19:40, the 3-11 manager went home at half 8 and another manager who was on a 2-10 when home at 20:50.

Over these past 3 days I didn’t get offered an early day once, only after about 3-5 people went home earlier I got spoken to by a manager and it was to see if I could stay on to cover everyone who went home early.

Another issue is that im only getting 2 shifts a week despite being on a flexible contract and having a VERY open availability but when im on shift im always late out.

Are they keeping me on to punish me or are they keeping me on because they know I can compensate for the ones who went home and im flexible enough to do multiple stations at once? Is this a sign of me being a great and reliable employee or is it the managers using me because im 19 and on a pt contract so im cheap labour?

Would love for any managers or scheduling managers or similar to weigh in too!

TLDR; managers are sending people home like 4-6 hours early then begging me to stay on when it’s late and I have to catch a very specific bus at an ultra specific time and I don’t get it.

Ok I understand how dumb this may sound, everyone I work with are super sweet and there are a lot of guys at the grill that plays Video games and watch anime too. they always talk to each other which looks a lot of fun.

i work on in breakfast as a batch cook in a super small town. most of my job Is just cleaning so I tend to hear a lot of conversations so I know for sure they are good people and I doubt they would ever judge me. whenever someone trys to start a conversation like "Hey what games do you play." I always freeze up and say something basic like "RPGs." but I feel like I am coming off as cold or indifferent because don't onow how to express myself and let my words out.

Is there anyone who has any advice for me to get out of my head and tell them that I like final fantasy or Pokemon. nothing I want to say is weird or worng but I can't for the life of me admint to what I like this is not just with games that was mostly just. a example of what did happen this could be the same regardless of the topic.

Someone went through drive through and used ai and i fell for it and let it order and my co workers made fun of me 😔. Im autistic and everyone said it was so obvious but I didnt like catch it ig and im embarrassed

For those wondering how much stuff you're going to get for the new drinks.

It's 12 different dry stock items and 2 different cooler items.

Where people are going to fit 12 extra boxes in their already tight dry storage is beyond me. I've seen stores that can't even fit their current menu items in the dry storage.

Also for whatever reason the boba isn't refrigerated. Thought that was weird since the boba for the Mcflurry is kept in the cooler.

From our recent delivery, all the nuggets and quarter pounder buns are smaller. It's been a hot topic in our store. Anyone else notice the Shrinkflation?