Working at Mcdonalds

[DA KID]

Hey anyone every worked at mcdonalds? I'm about to turn in my application but they really ain't tell me to much about the job except it's pretty easy to get. Please serious answers to my question. How much do they pay usually? What exactly do you do? Is it easy to get fired? How many sick days or vaction days do you usually get? Do you have to pay for the uniform? What's the best way to get hired? Are you allowed to give out free food? ( I heard of something called a meal ticket don't know to much about it though) thanks for any help?

Also anyone know the same thing for starbucks or bestbuy. By the way I'm 16 going on 17 in a few months.

 

[Julian]

dude its mcdonalds. Just go and do the least amount of work possible.

 

[skinnydart]

Dude, McDonalds has become an icon is American society, it's the lowest of the low. Get a job anywhere but there. Bestbuy is a huge step up, there are betting looking chicks there anyway. They pay minimum wage, in my state that's 5.15 / hour, and no, you don't get any "vacation" days unless you're in managment. You would be hourly, which means if you don't come in you don't get paid.

What exactly do you do?

um, you know when you've gone into McDonalds to buy something, yeah, you'll be doing exactly what you see the people behind the counter doing.

Go starbucks, it pays better.

 

[DA KID]

Yeah I'm thinking about starbucks I just called them they pay 7.25 plus you get tips and more chicks and I would love to work at bestbuy but no transportation atleast starbucks and mcdonalds are 10-15min walk bestbuy is a 10-15 drive to the mall but yeah I just need to pick up a starbucks application hopefully I can get the starbucks that's 10-15min walk instead of anonther in the next town since you don't always get your job site you want. But my god 7.25 a hr my not sound alot to some people but to a 16 year old kid with zero money no car no responsiblities and just on the football team and lifts weights in his spare time that's alot

 

[Egyptiandude1]

bestbuy doesnt really pay minimum wage... maybe just in California where the min is $6.75, but they started me at 8.. as for working there... lets just say the discount is the only good thing about working there

 

[diplomatic_lie]

Underage hookers get paid $50/hour.

Think about it.

 

[skinnydart]

I just realized I have that worded wrong...

They pay minimum wage, in my state that's 5.15 / hour, and no, you don't get any "vacation" days unless you're in managment. You would be hourly, which means if you don't come in you don't get paid.

All the above is talking about McDonalds.

 

[CableLight]

Wow, WacArnolds...Good luck, man. You're venturing into a place many people fear to even tread.

I think it's a pretty low-expectation job, so I wouldn't worry about having to work extremely hard...or being sober. Though, and this is just me talking, but I think it would be a pretty big blow to the ego to say "Wow, I actually got fired from McDonalds."

 

[Centaurion]

Originally posted by diplomatic_lie
Underage hookers get paid $50/hour.

Think about it.

 

[Abbott]

Man...stay the hell away from McSh|tties. It's lower than low. Lower than how low the molten magma is below the surface.

I'll start off with pay, since given your age that's probably the one of the most important things regarding a job.

The number of jobs that you can get without a high school diploma are slim, and they nearly all pay terribly. So I'm going to assume that pay isn't a big deal to you.

$6.15/hr. (minimum wage) = $959.40/mo. (not even a thousand, damn!)
$6.50/hr. = $1,014/mo.
$7.25/hr. = $1,131/mo.
$8.00/hr. = $1,248/mo.

Assuming 10% tax rate, you may get more or less depending on your situation.

For half-time work (20 hrs./wk.) just divide the monthly figures by two.



So what's left to consider? It's what people will think when you tell them where you work, or what your customers will think (if the job requires contact with people, such as retail).

At a fast-food joint, people will automatically consider you to be sub-human. Why else are you working there? No one wants to be there. This is especially true if you've been there a long time. People who work there tend to be fairly dumb (it's mean but it's usually true!).

The customers are condescending, assuming you're stupid. It doesn't even matter that people who go to places like that tend to be poorer than average, since fast-food joints are cheaper than many other restaurants.

Jave joints and other restaurants are better (perhaps because the prices are higher?). The customers are nicer to the workers, and don't necessarily assume that the workers are stupid.

Retail might be a good choice for you, because most customers will assume that you must know more about the merchandise than they do. They'll look up to you. It's the power of knowledge at work here. This is especially true with technology.

So basically, if you must work in a restaurant, get a waiter job (wage sucks, but tips more than make up for it), or deliver pizzas (again, tips make up for it). I'd recommend retail myself. I'd try to get a commission job if I were you, because then you'd make more money on busy days.

Plus, I doubt a woman is going to be impressed if you work at a fast food joint, unless she's either A) a trailer trash b|tch, where three or four generations share a trailer (I once met someone like this!), or B) the daughter of a welfare mom. And I doubt that you want either.


So think hard about the social stigma and the consequences if you start to work there.

My $.02,

Ben

 

[sfalexi]

My advice is to put in applications in lots of different places. I worked at McDonalds two summers in a row (15 and 16). They pay min wage and it's not a great job.

But it IS a job. And you DO get a paycheck at the end of week.

I'd apply in lots of places and just keep going to the better job out of the bunch (meaning if you start out at McD's, and a week later get called up to work at Best Buy for two dollars more an hour, simply quit McD cold and go to Best Buy). Just make sure that wherever you end up, you STAY there for a little while to start up a resume. Future jobs look favorably on dedication to one job rather than hopping from one to the next over and over again.

Alexi

PS - I'm not saying try only McD and Best Buy, I was just using the examples given above.

 

[McKindley]

You're sixteen. Working crappy jobs when you're sixteen is a rite of passage we've all been through. If someone has NEVER had a crappy job (or even a job at all) once they turn 18 then everyone who knows this will think their spoiled.

Definately go out for as many jobs as you can, and take the one that A) pays the best and B) you could actually see yourself working there. (there's no point taking a job you hate that you'll quit in a few weeks, you know?)

There's nothing demeaning about working a crappy job for minimum wage when you're sixteen. I did it. Most of us have.

Just don't stay there for more than a year or so. Work there for about a year and then move on.

 

[Finlay]

Its a job dude, they pay you for it.

Who cares where you work?

Your not the Mcdonalds Guy,

YOU are the Guy that works there.