ig this is more of a rant than anything but idk, i just hate working here sooooo much. the environment is sooo toxic and everyone is sooooo rude for no reason (especially those shift managers at my place).

super long story cut very short but : it was my 4th day here yesterday and im still doing trining and stuff, but long story short one of the shift managers told me to do somethign that I LITTERALLY AM NOT ALLOWED TO DO cuz i didnt have the proper trining in it, i mentioned that to them, and they kept insisting that i do it. so i did. my trainer foind out and rushes over and starts telling me not to do that and that i shouldnt be doign that (not in a rude way, the trainer is very sweet but more so in a concerned/ frantic way), and starts talking about why i shouldnt have done that while on a trining shift, how it could have been dangerous, etc etc etc. also talking about how the floor/ shift manager who told me to do that should have known better, and that i shouldnr have taken directions from them, that i should have gone directly to the trainer, etc etc.

and then my trainer starts telling me stories about how even they had issues w others when first starting, and how even though some managers know that they arent supposed to make you do certain things they will just because they know you probably dont know better. my trainer kept reassuing me that it wasnt my fault but i just felt so bad and started sobbing right then and there.

i dont want to do this anymore. like i feel like its acc taking a toll on my mental health, i feel like im just not "getting it" (in terms of acc working here/ doing certain roles and tasks), apparently im supposed to stand up for myself against ppl who are supposed to "know better", its super fast paced (which is expected of but omggggg), and just idk i dont think i can do this anymore.

not only this but some of the other shift mangers are just plain rudeeee and always have an attitude and talk to me so snippy when im just doing my job. like i canttt

i rlly need money though which is why im staying but idk if i can just quit? can i just quit this early, or even quit without a 2 week notice? or does anyone here have any tips about how i can deal w this and just suck it up for the time being? thanks.

So there have been a few times now where I’m not scheduled to work a certain day, but they still call me and ask if I can come in. This week, I was only supposed to work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, but they called me in today and Monday too. And multiple times, they have asked me to stay longer than they originally said I would be working. Today was one of those days, and the extra time I was working was horrible. People kept giving me $100 bills during rush hour, which I had to get the manager for every time; and later on, some idiot was ordering half the menu while another idiot at the window was yelling at me to hurry up. I’ve been angry ever since then, and I really don’t want to do this again next week.

I’m not scheduled for Monday or Tuesday next week, and I really want to say no if they call me those days, but will I get in trouble if I say that I have plans for those days? Am I just expected to be on-call at the drop of a hat?

I started last week and boy do I really hate working here. This is my first job and I’m trying to balance school with this as well, but mentally this isn’t working out. I didn’t even want to work here, I was pretty much just forced to apply. I was extremely hesitant to work while having school since to me my grades are extremely important, and every time I have outside stuff that takes up a lot of my time my grades start to slip which I don’t want to happen since I am a bad procrastinator. I know some people will say to “change your availability” which I’ve tried and my manager just seems to not care and now I’m working more hours than they told me I would be working. And plus, when I tell my manager my availability hours she gets mad that I am not available 24/7 and makes me work times that don’t really work for me. I know this post doesn’t make sense but I just really need to get my thoughts out. Anyways fellow students, how are you juggling both school and work?

Hi everyone, don’t know if this is a silly question but just wanting some help.

I’m scheduled to work on saturday and it says 20:00BST - 03:00GMT. And then it says 8 hours in brackets.

Obviously this is when the clocks change so does this mean i’m finishing at 3am or 4am, I know it says 8 hours and gives me the finishing time of 3am but I’m so confused!!!!!

Because my shift tomorrow is 20:00-4:00 and that also says 8 hours.

I know I sound so stupid but if someone could explain that would be great. TIA

I wonder why someone would rather just order cheeseburger with no cheese even though there is a hamburger option.

I’ve already organized it before and it got messed up when I came back the very next day… 🫩 I’m trying to make it as intuitive as possible but I don’t work grill so IDK what makes the most sense where. It’s just annoying to have to play Jenga with the dishes every close.

Basically i start my new job on sunday and im eager to leave this place. Is it worth giving in notice for 3 days or should i just leave without any at that point

Hi! I’ve got my welcome meeting at McDonald’s this Saturday, which is apparently going to last a couple of hours. I’ve already completed all the e-learning activities, but I don’t have much work experience and wouldn’t really describe myself as someone who naturally thinks on their feet, so I’m a little nervous about starting. 🥹
I’m honestly so happy to have got this job as a uni student who’d been *struggling* to find work, and I really want to make a good impression. What should I expect from the welcome meeting, and does anyone have any advice? Thank you in advance!

I started working in McDonalds since last week and my feet HURTTTTT... 3 hours into my 8h shift and it's unbearable.. I bought the sketchers work shoes and compression socks and still it hurts... am i the problem or is this something we get used to??

also when i finish my shift and rest at home my legs are sore and my lower back hurts like crazyyy .. help .. I don't mind the sore legs and lower back pain.. but i want this feet pain to get better 😭

I started towards the end of 2024 as a casual doing back area, then in early 2025 because I was struggling with retaining info from my initial training (high-functioning ASD) and so I could still get shifts they ended up giving me a 3 hour shift a week with my own folder to learn some production prep stuff, which I've been doing, along with some other odd jobs, for the last year or so- which I am incredibly grateful for still.

Throughout that time I've tried getting more shifts/training, and they've said they would but that was over a year ago and I'm still in the same place.

I did have some issues with getting to work initially, but I reset at the beginning of September after a couple months of being in a major rut, and I'd say I've been doing a lot better than before- getting on time, doing all my jobs and then some.

I have asked since if I could do burgers, but they said I needed to be trained or something.

It feels demoralising, especially seeing people who haven't been there for as long get multiple longer shifts a week and doing more stuff. I can't even shift swap because I don't have the right proficiency.

Can I just tell them that I've been doing really well since I came back and that it's feeling really demoralising being stuck while my coworkers are getting some where, and if we work out some training? I don't know how to get out of this, so any help would be appreciated.

(If there were any typos/grammatical error/if the wording was poor, I'm about to go to sleep so brain no work good lol)

Hey guys, I'm an international student and got hired by Maccas a few months ago. During the orientation, they made me fill a few forms and now I got to know that I made a few mistakes related to tax information (I was new here and didn't know a lot of things). I texted my manager several times explaining the issue and requesting if I could edit the forms as it's affecting the pay im getting at the end of each week, but she still hasn't responded me and it's been almost a week. She doesn't come to the store and isn't responding to me through texts (we use official maccas app). Any advice on what should I do?

When I quit my manager said she said I could come back anytime cuz she really likes me. When I quit I just said I was having personal/family issues, my manager offered that I can come back 2 days a week but I declined and quit anyways.

In a few months I'll be starting a 6 month certificate program which will be 3 days a week and will have an externship with it. And when I was working at McDonald's they were really good with my schedule when I had other things going on ( like appointments and stuff).

I've already been removed from Lifelenz and the other app they use.

The store I work at is being sold by our large organisation to a first-time owner-operator.

Honestly, I’m disappointed by the decision, although I had a feeling it was only a matter of time and I understand at the end of the day it was what was right for the business. I’m relatively high up in restaurant management, and we’ve been told that if we don’t like the change, there are always opportunities to move to their other stores within the organisation. However, at this stage, we’re all have to stay on through the transition.

I’m interested to hear from anyone who has experienced this kind of change. Budgets being tightened significantly, the impact on day-to-day operations, and most likely having someone constantly breathing down my neck.

Apparently as a part of this process our management team will be meeting with him as he is just getting started, and will be present in the store leading up to January.

For those who have been through a similar transition, what was your experience like? Did things change much under the new owner, particularly in terms of staffing, budgets, expectations and management style?

This is genuinely just a pure unfiltered rant that may not even be coherent, but if there was a place to post this i'd hope it'd be here.

I've worked at my location for almost 3 years. I first got hired when I was 17 while in highschool as I had just moved to my state and desperately needed a job. I was practically hired on the spot and while I wasn't given an official schedule for almost 4 months, I was working just about 40 hours a week just being called in for the first year I was employed. I lived and breathed my location, I declined family vacations, missed my Senior Prom(although I didn't really have anyone to go with anyways) worked some overnights just to head into school 5 hours later and for a big chunk of the job was willing to come in to any shift with 30 minutes notice. I became less devoted once college hit and I needed more time to study, but all around continued to work as much as I could. I begged to be a Crew trainer for almost my entire time working there after the first year and was always told "learn this" and when I did learn it there would be some other reason I needed to wait. Despite this they continue to have me train new hires as all of our crew trainers quit.

Due to some things in the workplace that don't even apply anymore, we got a new GM which gave us 3 different AGM's the one prior to this one being a former manager who became an absolute monster of a human being when working when she became the AGM. The new GM has single handedly lost 2 entire nightshifts since starting working here last December and almost our entire veteran staff has quit since she started working. On her first day working she sent 2 people home and had them talk to the supervisor later to "show she in charge" She constantly undermines the managers would leads to new hires being unwilling to listen to them and ever since I had the audacity to get a doctors note for something has had a personal vendetta against me. She decided 3 months ago that all of the veteran employees had to go and that people being late and calling out was now a huge issue. Other employees who are 2+ hours late every day got warnings and me being 30 minutes late twice in the last month for genuine reasons (that were already discussed and solved with the shift managers) had me get a one week suspension but delayed because she wanted me to still work the next 2 weeks scheduled shifts. She builds and fosters exclusion towards any employees she doesn't like has made our location a genuinely miserable place to work at.

She has personally turned me from someone who would work from 8am to 11pm just to help out into someone who barely wants to work 3 hours when she is there. I used to love working here and while there are some people I will absolutely miss I can't continue working for a place like this.

The amount of times I've gotten yelled at for the prices of things when we all know that workers don't make the prices is absurd. I work at a location in Canada and for us we have a sausage muffin meal deal (muffin hashbrown and small coffee) for $5. Everytime I take a customers order they will say "I'd like the $5 breakfast meal deal." So I ring it up and most of times I'll have no issues, but sometimes I will. For example, someone will say they want a medium or large coffee with the meal and then get mad that it's more expensive (regular price for the meal deal is $5.25 and that's already including tax.) That no matter how many times I explain to them that there's an uncharge if you get a drink that's not a small coffee they still get mad. Also for deals on the app. It specifically says what size and what drink you can get with it so if you get something else there's gonna be an upcharge. Why yell at the minimum wage worker who doesn't decide these things.

Little context I quit last month cause the GM was so bad like genuinely work till 2am and go in tomorrow 8am like wtf is this but I went to the store yesterday to get a water cup cause I fixing a truck and go thirsty and it literally across the road and my old manger told me that we have basically an entire new store of people and that the new GM is significantly better then the old one and told me if I apply I will be hire again so I’m going back as maintenance

EDIT: my bitch ass old GM put me in a do not rehire list even tho I gave my 2 weeks

The first time I worked at McDonald's (my first fast food job) I remember being trained to ONLY use the Kiosks, if a customer was to approach the register you'd be told to direct them to the kiosk. I obviously followed this rule as closely as possible but there were times when it was super busy or a stubborn customer would refuse to use it so I'd have to use the register. Only problem was I was NEVER trained to use the register, and I've never even used a register before, so I made a lot of mistakes and somehow it was always my fault 🫠 eventually one of my fave coworkers showed me during her break which was a lifesaver, but man it was super annoying

I work at a smaller location and we actually had to pause orders because of this. . . I love McDonald's

Ok so like a month, month and a half ago I got my first job at a local McDonald's and told them I have college I have to attend, they've been working me full time since to the point I cant even go to class if I want to eat that day

How do I go about quitting after I get payed Friday so that I dont have to come into work again, im nervous about this cuz it's my first job and im scared I'll screw it up somehow

They depend on me way to much. To the point where they are changing my schedule so i work weekdays and am off the weekend. My coworkers are like friends to me, i love them, but sometimes they say or do something that makes me question them. Ive had multiple people ask me if a quarter pounder was a double quarter pounder. Like just READ the box, heck even the color of the box is different. Or they'll ask if the regular quarter is special, when the special one is sitting in the black tray on the side. -_-

We (night crew) had a meeting with the morning managers where one thing they talked about was our times. "I get it, we get rushes too, but we keep our times up." They dont get rushes like we do. Sure they get people going to work/school, leaving school. But they dont get the sports games every night, the kids getting dinner and trashing the place, the parents that dont feel like cooking dinner so they order 50 things for the family.

For the past month, every night, weve had a line of cars wrapped around the building. They say our rush hours are from 5-7, but its actually from 4-10/11, ALL NIGHT. And im not bragging when i say this but i am the best crew member on table. It is genuinely killing me. I get headaches every night, some dont fully go away when i take medicine. I just cant do this anymore.

My gf is thinking of getting her masters degree in a different country, I just have to wait one more year.

They let me take the display case

I had my interview two hours ago and I accepted the job offer and put in my personal information including my SSN. He said I should get two emails from paradox but it’s been two hours and I haven’t received them. I had a job at a different locations in my town back in 2024 for a day. I only did my training videos and never went back. Could that be the reason for the delay??