The McDonalds Thread

I'm not sure about the time off, but someone at my store only works Saturdays and often books them off and they're still employed. It depends on the manager I guess.

16-17 is usually around £4.40
18-20 is usually around £5.00

At my welcome meeting we went to a central McDonald's and filled in forms about tax and personal details, signed a contract and was given a folder with instructions to do the online orientation and take it into the store, we would then be given uniform and a shift.

Brilliant, Thank you! I'm gutted because I was so happy to get this job and then realised that I would have to take quite a bit of time off in August, do you think if I say I don't mind working all the days I'm not away and working extra in the month before/after it might soften the blow?

Thanks again

George x

Just don't mention it unless they specifically ask you (I'm guessing you aren't legally required to tell them about holidays) and book time off using McTime in a month or two.

If you're a good worker they won't fire you for taking a holiday, they probably aren't allowed to do that anyway, especially as it is unpaid. Just talk it through with your scheduling manager if they refuse to allow you a holiday, mine is very reasonable.

And book it off way in advance as well, not like the week before. They don't like that very much...

Thanks, I won't give up. I just feel like the managers don't appreciate me. One of the shift managers who is in charge of the training realises how good I am and has been giving me workbooks for the stars (hardly anyone has them), but it just feels like the store manager is oblivious to all this.

Do you think company owned restaurants would have better training and managers than the franchised ones? There is a smaller company run one near me that I could potentially transfer to.

My McDonald's seems to be not doing very well, the area manager guy always visits us, whenever he does the shift manager has a fit, sorting everything out, putting timecards in the production bin, making sure nothings out of place. It used to be really good but we keep failing mystery shopper visits.

I literally have applied on a part time basis so hoping that me taking just under 3 weeks off won't be a problem! If I had known I was going to apply for the job then I wouldn't have booked the holidays without checking
Are they quite understanding with stuff like this?
Nothing came up on the application form OR in the interview/OJE asking me about holidays I've got booked so I'm hoping that if I wait until the welcome meeting and say something then, hopefully it'll be okay!
How much notice would you say to give? I go away on the 30th July until the 5th, then the 9th-18th! Would also need to take the 26th-28th off as I would be up north celebrating my 18th.. Would you say this is reasonable or too much to ask them to allow?

Thanks again, really appreciate it!

George x

Given time, the managers will realise your good, but unfortunately there are too many people who can't be bothered and try and do the bare minimum, and sometimes managers forget not everyone is like that.

I've not worked in a company store, but I have heard they have an easier time because financially and because of that there is less pressure to save money. But every store is different, some franchised stores are run very well while others aren't. Same for company stores.

You'll find that's the case when area managers/franchisees/ops consultants etc visit any store. No store is perfect, and there is always things which can be done better, so the shift manager does have a panic.

Yeah, but I think my store is a really badly failing one. They've changed the way you get your food on break so many times because they are determined that it is us taking an extra few nuggets is causing the thousands of pounds loss they are having each month, even though the managers don't do proper waste counts and stock checks.

When the head ops consultant area guy came last time they made a lot of people work over (I was 3 hours over the end of my shift, others were 4 or 5) because all the managers were following the ops guy around instead of working meaning we were short staffed (the schedule was messed up anyway). We still didn't do too well on the inspection thing, only just passed it.

Always makes me laugh when food costs are an issue and managers moan but then don't do waste counts! One of the stores I work at has real food cost issues and were allowed a medium EVM (exc. 5 selects, 9+ nuggets) and no dessert, whereas my uni store doesn't have food cost issues and you can have any large meal you want, a second drink, dessert, nobody really cares if you have an extra cheeseburger, cheese dippers or something like that as well.

Might be worth transferring, I've seen a phone number you can ring somewhere for the Transfer Helpline or something like that. But don't be surprised if the other store also has problems.

I literally have applied on a part time basis so hoping that me taking just under 3 weeks off won't be a problem! If I had known I was going to apply for the job then I wouldn't have booked the holidays without checking
Are they quite understanding with stuff like this?
Nothing came up on the application form OR in the interview/OJE asking me about holidays I've got booked so I'm hoping that if I wait until the welcome meeting and say something then, hopefully it'll be okay!
How much notice would you say to give? I go away on the 30th July until the 5th, then the 9th-18th! Would also need to take the 26th-28th off as I would be up north celebrating my 18th.. Would you say this is reasonable or too much to ask them to allow?

Thanks again, really appreciate it!

George x

Made my first monumental **** up.

Apparently I was meant to be in work today but I thought he told me Monday of next week.

On Mctime I'm only scheduled for Friday but in work the other day he said he'd put me in on a monday as well but hadn't put it up on Mctime and I'm sure he said the 28th but got a missed call this morning.

Felt sick really, rang back and apologised but he didn't sound too happy aghh

Run out of chicken? That's ridiculous! Saying that, we've been 30 seconds from running out of fries once, luckily the delivery was out the back but if it had been 5 minutes later than it was, we'd of been screwed!



We don't have the schedule on the wall at my uni store, but we have a folder containing the schedule/floorplans in the office, so most people check that.

Hi all,

Just got offered a summer job at McDonalds.

Couple of questions

How does the cashback system work on the discount thingy online?

Why is the orientation thing online so patronising?

Do you have to eat a McDonalds lunch or can you bring your own?

Do you like it there?

It really is! And it's not the first time it's happened either! We're lucky in that we have another store across the road from us if we're running out of stock. Although, they can be awfully stingy sometimes and we end up needing to bring in a taxi from another store.



Basically, you just click the link to the website and buy the stuff on the website as you normally would. It will take a week or so for it to show up as cash back received, but when it does you can transfer it to your bank. If the cash back doesn't come through, you can submit a form which sorts it out for you though. The cash back is great, I've saved more than £70 over the last year and a half, and I've not utilised it as much as I could!

You don't have to eat McDonald's food if you don't want to. I only eat it cause it's free

I really enjoy my time there! I've been here 3 1/2 years and I really like it. I'm quite lucky that everyone in my store gets on, and there aren't any trouble makers really.

How does the cashback system work on the discount thingy online?

It really is! And it's not the first time it's happened either! We're lucky in that we have another store across the road from us if we're running out of stock. Although, they can be awfully stingy sometimes and we end up needing to bring in a taxi from another store.

We've other stores nearby too, although they're a bit further way so need to send taxis. Crew get sent between stores too if one is short, can be quite funny when people come to my store from the drive thru where they do £1000+ in evening hours and we do £100. They aren't used to the quiteness.

Must be a bit of a challenge for stores which are miles away from any other, don't want to be running out of something like regular meat or fries and not have a store within half an hour.