interview tips and stuff

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:30 pm

If you were a manager somewhere else I'd say it can help you, but fast food managers don't really require a lot of credentials. It's not like you're going to make production charts, or be giving efficiency pep talks either unless people keep dropping meat patties on the floor. The extent of a fast food manager's job is to count drawers at a shift change or at closing, make sure the people are doing their job (yell occasionally), and send people on breaks. Then you'll occasionally poke a thermometer in a meat patty to make sure everything is working correctly. McDonalds will give you a bunch of training BS, effectively a "Common sense for dummies" handbook with a golden arch on the cover

We're not criticizing you, or your ambition to make money or move up the ladder. It's the fact that we know you're an intelligent individual and that your capabilities may be better realized elsewhere.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:47 pm

Ryan from Ohio wrote:Ok, not trying to knock you down- but it is McDonalds. Last I heard shift managers make like $8-9/hr dependant on location.

They make a whopping $6 here. $6.50 after you go through a years worth of McDonald's corporate BS training. For comparison, a closer makes $5.75. Pathetic for what you have to do. They do make more in larger towns, but so do the regular employees.

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:53 am

they make $9-$10+ here... for shift managers. but going through college i'm basically going to need a night job.. thats what i like about mcdonalds. i could go get a job at the paper mill and work nights... but i'd probably be tired the next morning.:P

managers get paid $6-$6.5 there? wtf... what do regular crw members get paid? i'm just looking for something to hold me over for the next year and a half or so.. after that its a real job.

JASON96R · Post by **JASON96R** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:22 am

Have you thought about delivering pizzas, while you are in college. I'm 24 probably have quite a few more bills to pay and do so easily. My base bay is $5.25 an hour, but with tips added I make atleast 12.00+ working fulltime hours. That is with atleast 15 hours of working during the day which is not good at all for tips, because I take almost no deliveries. For instance 1 in 6 hours yesterday.
Oh, yeah during football season especially highschool, because HS football is big where I am from, I easily make over $20 an hour on Fridays. Contrast that with fast food where your gettin slammed and making nothing extra.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:27 am

Darthness wrote:managers get paid $6-$6.5 there? wtf... what do regular crw members get paid? i'm just looking for something to hold me over for the next year and a half or so.. after that its a real job.

Keep in mind, small town. The restaurant doesn't make a ton of money, doesn't require a lot of effort, people don't have to make as much to live here. Openers/closers make $5.75, others make around $5.25-5.50 depending on how long they've been there.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:17 pm

I know of one McDonalds where the normal workers get $7.50-$8/hr while closers get an extra $0.50.

Delivering pizza can be good, if there is enough work.

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:26 pm

only if you're getting gas money... other wise its more of a waste.

Team AI · Post by **Team AI** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:33 pm

yeah but at least you can enjoy your system while your working :P I woul love it if they would let me pull my truck into the shop at work, I think I could drown out the routers, m11's and screw guns.... don't know about the cry baby's though all that noise just makes people wine louder and harder.

Justin from Detroit1 · Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:40 pm

Ryan from Ohio wrote:I know of one McDonalds where the normal workers get $7.50-$8/hr while closers get an extra $0.50.
Delivering pizza can be good, if there is enough work.

And as long as you don't live in the hood. t isn't worth risking your life to deliver pizza!

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:43 pm

True. Heard of enough robberies when people try to deliver.

Out where I live its way safe. Of course Im 20 miles out in the stix...