Is working at McDs something you would do?

gems2381

Just realised I'm screwed if his mum reads this thread :rotfl:. Bit obvious who I am with the detailed family description, my name and pic in my avatar! What the hell she deserves it maybe it'd make her realise......god who am I trying to kid!

juno

I once applied for a job at V1, which was a vegetarian fast food restaurant. I didn't get the job though, and it's now closed (cry).

I don't think I'd apply to mcdonalds though, but only because we don't have one near us. It would cost over an hour's wages to get there and back! I would apply to similar places that we do have nearby though.

Jacks_xxx

ZTD wrote: »

Given the stories about people's OHs on here - it seems a lot of people have intimate relations with pigs...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

CheeseOnToast

As a vegetarian, I would have a moral problem with working at McDonalds.

However, I have no shame to say I would work anywhere doing anything to keep a roof over my family and food on their table. So yes I would work there.

I have worked in some right !!!! holes in the past, factories etc

rog2

CheeseOnToast wrote: »

As a vegetarian, I would have a moral problem with working at McDonalds.

That's totally different - and fully understandable. As a committed non-vegetarian, I admire and respect your principles, even if I don't share them.

dudleyboy

gems2381 wrote: »

Later his mum came and told my boyfriend it was a stupid thing to do and that his brother needs a real job, he can do better than working there blah,blah,blah.

It sounds to me as though your boyf's mum is a large part of the problem. Rather than berating you both for helping she should be thanking you for giving this lazy oik some encouragement and support. At 18 years old he's now quite capable of supporting himself, but I'm guessing he's living at home, rent/keep free and his mum is giving him no incentive whatsoever to stick at anything. I'm aware that apprentice jobs pay poorly but once qualified he had real career prospects... and I'm not sure what constitutes as a "real job" in his mum's eyes but without a GCSE in at least English and Maths his options are severely limited.

As for working in McD's, it's not something I would do now, but it's certainly something I would have considered at that age and in that situation (as it happens I just worked somewhere else). As others have said, good employees shine through in such environments. Many McD staff are students working PT to earn some money (both studying and working? - now that would be an eye opener for him!) and as a FT, long-term member of staff he could have progressed with the right attitude and ambition. Neither of which he seems to have.

gems2381

dudleyboy he quit his apprenticeships because of the poor pay, he didn't see the bigger picture but surely the low pay is still more than he'd get on the dole!? Pure lazyness is at the heart of it all.

wherediditallgo

gems2381 wrote: »

dudleyboy he quit his apprenticeships because of the poor pay, he didn't see the bigger picture but surely the low pay is still more than he'd get on the dole!? Pure lazyness is at the heart of it all.

Some people can't. One of my friends has a fiance who was an apprentice builder & also learning engineering. He had to put in upwards of 12-hour days because he was on site during the day, at college some evenings & also had study to do at weekends on top of a Saturday job, & had very little money unless one of the bosses gave him a bit extra at the end of the week for helping out on a particular job. He kept at it though, & three years on is now on nearly £40k a year. That will probably be going up too, once he's finished the last bit of his studies & is fully qualified - he'll then be a qualified builder, plumber & electrician, & intends to be self-employed so he's been doing a bookkeeping course too. If you're not prepared to put the hours in for what you want in life, you'll only ever have the basics.

Ahena

I actually think it is shameful, that the unemployed dont want to work in mc donalds, i have alot more respect for those that have jobs there, earn their money honestly and fairly, that those who justborrow off their parents or are on the dole. A job is a job and thats all there is to it

INT1

I work part time at Mc Donalds, it's not that bad a job-it's always there if I need extra pennies for the ever increasing cost of living...