Former McDonald's workers, check in!

Anyone else here (besides me) work at McDonald's?
At the sign of the Fallen Arches? :-)

Did you have a favorite job?

Least favorite job?

For me, my favorite job was fish/pies, because even during a "rush" (lunch and dinner hours,) there wasn't really that much to do.

Least favorite was at closing, dishes.
Cleaning all the equipment sent back to the sink, ketchup and mustard dispensers, trays, etc.

cuz I got talk on a mic!

I liked the drive thru...

Hated cleaning the bathrooms at closing!

...Weird, horrible things that still haunt me.

I'm just grateful I never had to do that at closing. :scared:

and I am nearly back to normal.

but I hated working the counter. I didn't mind cooking so every time the manager put me at the counter I switched with this guy that hated to cook so it worked out ok. I only lasted 4 weeks though. This was back when the minimum wage was $3.35 and I was told I would be making $3.50 when I was hired. Two weeks later when I got my first check I was paid $3.35. I was told it was an error and would be corrected on the next check. It wasn't so I quit.

I loved back drive thru. I would try out all kinds of accents over the speaker. I hated doing dishes, and since my mom was the manager, I had to do them all the time. She didn't want the other employees to think I ever got special treatment, so I got all the shitty jobs.

figure 8-ing the floors and cleaning the shake machines. I also was allowed to close on school nights because she gave the okay. :(

I hated pulling the grills. Cleaning the grease trap was bad but I enjoyed the looks on people's faces when they went into the basement and had to smell that smell.

I only worked grill once when they were so very short staffed. I didn't care much for that.

from Filenes (at the time) on Spring St near the Downtown Crossing T-stop (i think). I only did it for a month before I went in the Navy and only worked breakfast (lines were always out the door at that location)so i didn't have a lot of variety of job type to choose as favorite. all I remember doing was cooking the breakfast sandwiches and the pancakes and sausage. i suspect they cook everything differently now compared to then.

I got a call halfway through my first day and was told that another job that I had applied for had accepted my application and wanted to hire me.

3 hours total. I was barely finished watching the training films. I never even flipped a burger.
HA

I only worked a couple of hours a day at lunchtime. My favorite job was the counter, I just thought it was fun.

My first job, when I was 16.

Clean as you go!!

It was great training, though. Learned a lot about restaurant work, how to handle a cash register, and how to deal with people.

I loved working the grill, but didn't get a chance very often. I spent WAY too much time doing 'dishes' in the back, scrubbing out pans. Also a lot of time on "maintenance", which meant mopping the floor and picking up the parking lot.

It sucked. I also worked at Taco Bell. Both two of the crappiest jobs ever. Having to deal with customers sucked. There is nothing good about having to deal with the public. Now I was quite shy as a teen and constantly being told I had to try and sell people more than they ordered (Do you want fries with that?) was horrible.

As a high school student I was WAY smarted than the losers they hired as management. Good grief, they were stupid, yet treated me like shit. I showed up on time and did what I was told. For that I got called in every time someone else called in "sick" (they just couldn't be bothered to show up for work- had a football game or something to go to). More money for me I guess but I started getting tired of them expecting me to take up the slack.

Were you allowed to bring in lunch/dinner or were you expected to eat (and pay?) for your meals from the menu when you were at work?

Thank you -

Tim

generally. We got a "meal allowance" that covered a basic meal, and we could pay discounted prices for more.

I didn't mind - I was a teenager and I loved the food. After that, I got a job at an ice cream parlor, and that rocked, too :D

If you don't mind me asking, what did you think of the movie "Super Size Me"? Do you think that it was a fair representation of the dangers of eating too much fast food?

Again, thanks!

Tim

but I've read a lot about it.

Yeah, if you eat three meals a day of fast food, bad things will happen. I don't think that's very shocking, and in fact, it wasn't an unusual idea even back the 70s.

But I was a teen, and could get away with it.

order the same thing: two cheese burgers, large fries, a large Coke, and a 6 piece order of McNuggets! Now, I probably only go to McDonald's once or twice a year (and only order 1 cheese burger, small fries, and a diet Coke).

Tim

then you got a small meal (cheeseburger/small fry) for free. We had a thing called "Waste" that we threw old unpurchased food into. No one could eat it because it had to be counted. Talk about waste. And don't get me started on how we would switch the time stamps on food as it got closer to closing. Some of the food became literally hours old under the lamps. :puke:

closing time) and after I placed my order the person behind the counter asked if I wanted anything else...I told him "No", but then he said "No, I mean for free...we're just going to throw this stuff out anyway"...and I think he gave me 2 or 3 extra burgers and a couple of large fries.

That only happened once (and I'm sure it was against store policy)...but after reading your post, I wonder if that food had been under the lamps for most of the day!! :)

Tim

"Old MacDonald had a farm...
EIEIO".
;-)

Redstone

McDonald's, which would make you part of the 87.5% that didn't. :hi:

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Redstone

I've worked some shitty jobs, but fortunately fast food was never one of them.

Favorite job? drive thru order taker/change maker.

Least favorite? Cleaning the shake machine...:puke: I will never let a McDonald's shake into my personal temple again. Unless I'm pregnant, and I can dip fries into it. :hi:

No Job was my favorite. Cleaning out the FF vats was my least favorite, but I didn't mind staying if the job needed to be done. It taught me a lot about customer service and excellence. I had trophies on customer service and FF technicals.

But I was a youngster. Today I would love to teach customer service to front line folks. They are not taught the same way I was, and I had to count out change, apologize for special orders. No one does that today.

was 16. He cooked fries. One summer night a bunch of gnats got in the restaurant and some ended up in the fry cooker. The boss told my husband not to worry about it because people would just think they were pepper. Husband handed in his apron and never looked back.

I worked at Hardees. It was fun making biscuits and other morning prep but required waking up too early.
In the beginning, I really hated taking drive thru orders because I wasn't confident on their key board yet. After a while though, I became one of their best drive thru order takers and was always put on that job when there was a corporate evaluation. When it was really busy and enough people were working, I preferred just bagging orders.
I disliked cleaning, especially picking up cigarette butts off of the parking lot. I thought that the employees who smoked should have done that.

mmmMMMMmmmmm. I miss those. :9

I hated that job with a fiery passion, after seeing the kinda stuff that can go on behind the scenes at McDonalds, I havent eaten there since I the day I was fired.

I worked at a McD's, mainly nights and mainly closing. I despised every second of it, including the burn I got on the fryer and the skeezy manager who called all the women under 25 things like Cupcake.

I worked the afternoon shift at the plant that made EVREY SINGLE FUCKING ONE of the McDonalds patties for Canada.

80,000 pounds a shift.

70 pound boxes of meat ground into 1,500 pound tubs fed into forming machines which fed a sereis of flash freezers.

Boy did I grow chest and shoulder muscles, and the pay was outstanding, and there was a gaggle of young women working there and the hours were amazing to a young hormone laden lad.

Oh well, back to the grind.