I took this job for a little bit of extra money while I’m at uni, and I’ve had experience at this kind of place for years so it would be easy work. I failed to consider the managers might be awful.
The first red flag was, after working there part time for a week, any questions I dared to ask about procedures were met with laughter (even in front of customers).
Friday dinner is our busiest time of the week, a few DAYS into working there it was just me and my manager. I started getting busy so I went to the office to find her scrolling through tiktok and asked her to come help. Ten minutes later she came out to a queue of customers and delivery drivers waiting for orders and the first thing she said was ‘so you’ve not cleaned the fridge I asked you to then?’. Well no I haven’t, I’ve been busy serving and cooking food for your customers on my own?? At the end of that night she left her laptop emails open on the counter and I could very clearly see one from the owner (her mum) criticising ‘the new boy’ for being lazy and not caring. Went home considering quitting there and then.
Finally, today I went to get food on my break. 3 hours in to a 12 hour shift. I had what would be considered a child’s meal on our menu, but as soon as I sat down I got a message from the owner (she lives in Greece so she’d obviously been watching the CCTV) telling me I’d gotten too much and suggesting this was the reason the business was losing money.
I don’t need this shit. I’ve balanced work and school, both full time (most of which was at McDonalds), since I was 16 and now at 21 I’ve realised I just need to enjoy these last couple of years of ‘freedom’. It’s going to be hard living off my student loan of £15 a week after bills but I’ll try to make it work 🤷️