Catherine:I don't begrudge you a part-time job. But I do worry about a couple blindspots you seem to have about your great employer.
"Walk into a McDonalds resturant comparred with any other fast-food place and compare the service." I don't think most of those complaining about McDonald's are criticizing it for it's substandard food or employment practices as compared to Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken or whatever else you have locally. It's about the quality of the food as compared to cheap, practical and healthy alternatives. It's not bad food (and, therefore, a bad value) relative to other fast food. It's bad food relative to internationally recognized standards of nutrition requirements.
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"...the crew are always under survailence of a manager..." I'm wondering why, as an employee given a job to do, and hopefully confident enough to believe you can do it, you see it as a positive thing to be under the constant scrutiny of a manager. You're at a point where you don't have many employment options (just as there are millions in industrial countries around the world who live their whole lives working in conditions beyond their control), but please don't believe for a minute that, to McDonald's, you are anything more than a minimum wage slave, infinitely dispensible. If the store you work in loses money, it will close and you'll be out of a job. If, god forbid, you injure yourself either at or away from work to the point where you can't work for while, you will not be compensated. If you're sick too long, you'll lose your job. Chances are, if you tell them you have to take a month off at the end of the school year to finish all your work, they won't want you around much longer. You are there for them; it's not the other way around. This is not unique to McDonalds, by the way.
You also talk about the "team work" and excellent "training." Here's a little test that will help you see how committed McDonald's is to teamwork and training. It will give you experience valuable beyond the kitchen of a fast food restaurant (indeed, applicable almost anywhere) and ensure "the crew" are truly a strong, cohesive team. Go to one or several of your managers and tell them you'd like to unionize the crew, that you'd like the organizational experience and you think that the crew would benefit immensely if they could bring to work with them personal and professional bonds forged outside of the workplace.
See how that goes over. See how long your icon smiles upon you with favour.
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