Working at Mcdonalds.

Greebo said:
Did McD when I was at college.

Free food, good laugh, loads of shags. I found I was best suited to the back room rather than tills or grill and I had it off to a tea. Could earn good money doing evening shift as you got overtime past closing.

Working the grills is really hard work and hot.
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Grills for me. Was a bit of a workout too doing so much. I imagine it was in the stores too. I worked at the Newbury retail park branch whilst finishing my a-levels and the first couple of years of uni when i was back home, 2003-2006.
 
I had a job there for a few weeks when I was in 6th form.

Good bits:
Less embarassing than JSA.
Eat food when bored.
Job is not taken seriously so you just mess about.

Bad bits:
Burns from the grill (or fat off it) or from splashback oil from the fryers.
You stink and need to soap yourself head to toe in the shower after every single shift.
You get fat from grazing on the food all day.
Laughable pay - Tesco paid me £9 per hour when I was 18 on a Sunday......McDonalds £4.50.....needless to say why I quit! Also Tesco basic pay is the same as the lowest level McDonalds management pay!
You need different shoes to drive home in - I reversed out of a bay and my shoes were so oily that my foot slipped off the clutch and I wizzed backwards.
Don't even think about parking a car you even remotely care about in the carpark there.
You will work with some of the most retarded college dropouts in the world.
 
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£9 an hour for what is (essentially) an unskilled job, regardless of the day of the week is a decent sum. I would treat that as the exception rather than the rule.

I worked in another fast food place for a few years part time and it wad much the same experience as others here, ling hours, hard work but great fun, lots of nights out and if you're single even more fun
 
I started working there as a part time job when I was at uni. I could work the hours I wanted around my studies and so it suited me. I starting working full time when I finished uni with the promise of entering the management system. I worked at different stores on and off for about 10 years. I was a floor manager at the time and was told several times that I would make a good assistant manager but they didnt have space for me at the moment so I would get a pay rise as a floor manager and that was that. This continued for a number of years and I was quite a highly paid hourly manager, I was then head hunted for KFC where I started as an assistant manager. I didnt like KFC it was different to what I was used to and so much more was expected of me that I really didnt like the job, not get me wrong I was used to hard work but working 65+ hours a week for no extra money becuase I was supposed to love my job wasnt my idea of fun. While I was at Maccies I was in charge of health and safety and completing the audits and ordering PPE, this basically got me the job I have now where I look after a number of buildings.

Maccys isnt the best job in the world if you are not scared of hard work but most of the `kids` that work there have no commitment to the job becuase they have no rent to pay and only need the money for a new pair of trainers when they get paid. One thing that will alway stick with me from maccies is the nights out where legendary, I remember always being on the 6:30 to 16:00 shift and going striaght to the pub after work it just used to get messy really quick but they are some of the best memories I will ever have.
 
WOrked at BK during college. Awesome job, loved it. Worked harder there than I ever have. But met some great people, slept with some hotties worked drunk on many many occasion.

Do it.
 
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