The True McDonald's Work Experience

A Quick Review of Working at McDonald's the Leader in Fast Food

While most people say that working at a McDonald's is great fun, let me be the first to set the record straight. I have worked at McDonald's for almost 8 years now, so I have a very firm grasp of what life inside a store is really like. Keep in mind while reading this however, that I was a barely 16-year-old girl when I started working there.

I was hired at a local McDonald's in my area after one of my friends got a job there just a week after my birthday. It was the only job I had ever attempted to get, other than helping work at my parents business when I was a young kid. My friends and I drove the manager's nuts; I was one of those sweet crew people with a bad tendency to cause trouble. Ok I admit I could have been a better example, but why should I have been?

Within 3 months I was already promoted to a crew trainer, despite the numerous dents that the cooler door now had in it, someone should have really told the corporate office that their joke idea of a Beanie Baby stress kit would have actually been better if it was a punching bag instead of a piece of paper with a circle saying "Smash Here".

I was the perfect little example of a crew trainer, always behaving and being a good employee, up until they gave me the ugly green visor they wanted me to wear instead of the purple baseball cap that I loved. After all those visors are kind of funky looking, while the hat was my favorite color, and much more comfy, plus bad hair days didn't bother me with a hat, whereas with a visor, the whole world knew about it.

I will admit I was in a lot of trouble the afternoon when the owner pulled up outside to watch me burning happily the green visor after I drenched it in sanitizer to help it burn faster. Ok I told you I was a bit of a troublemaker at times. Well other than the visor incident, I was the manager's favorite, and everybody knew it. Within 6 months of even starting my whole McDonald's experience, I was already being promoted to a swing manager.