Is working at McDs something you would do?

immoral_angeluk

gems2381 wrote: »

Sagaris his mum doesn't work either, his dad is in a wheelchair so she is his carer.
IA didn't that link take you straight to the wages page? I'll try sort it.

yep.. definately more than I was being paid for being a qualified nursery nurse. So much for qualifications eh?

trying-very-trying

gems2381 wrote: »

MERFE he can't drive.
He had an interview on wednesday, my boyfriend got home and asked him how it went his response was "I didn't go, I couldn't be arsed".

Sounds like my dd's bf. Doesn't drive and has no interest in learning to, but can't get a job 'cause he has no transport(buses not good in rural parts).

plotholder

when my kids were small DH was unemployed so i worked full time in a good job. I gave this up and worked in McD's for just over a year so he could go to college and retrain whilst my McD hours enabled me to look after my children and not pay childcare. I admit i dont put it on my CV as once he had qualified I gave it up to then be the stay at home parent while he worked so just extend that period instead. It was so unlike anything I had ever done before or since it is really not relevent. It was a means to an end and if necessary would do the same again if it solved a problem. A job is a job at the end of the day.

just because i have strings of qualifications doesn't make me better than the next person I am no snob and will clean loos if i have to. that was one of my jobs at McD's and you should see what some people do as a laugh if they think someone else will go and clean it up. I have had to wash $h1t off walls where it has been smeared as a joke :eek:

If someone really wants to work they will take anything

gems2381

wherediditallgo I came home and told my dad about his mums response and he said he'd encourage me as "you'd need money to pay your board!".
I got my first job at 14 (25 now) I worked in a restaurant kitchen sometimes there till 1am and was getting £1.50 an hour but I wanted to make some money so I did it!

grade15

i'ld love to work at @ mcd's...but due to commitments..i can't..
I love the food and you get free food..what more can i ask! and they have pension and other benefits..again like free food!!

adouglasmhor

When i was going to University after I came out the Army I workd for a firm who supplied door security to Pubs, Clubs, Bowling Allys and Fast Food cafes and restaurants. I often did McDonalds in Glasgow city centre and I know their staff got paid more than my GF got paid working in a Veggie cafe run by a women only co-op and in a pub kitchen. Personaly I have shoveled manure before to make money and would do it again if I had to.

wherediditallgo

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

I think there's more pride in doing a job - any job - when you're capable of working - than not making the effort to go out and earn your own money.

Personally, I've worked in the food industry and it was the thing I've enjoyed least of everything I've done - but it does suit some people. And I'd do it again if it was a choice between that and not working.

Same here. My mother totally supported me when I wanted a part-time job while I was studying, & I ended up at BHS doing Saturdays & two evenings a week for £10 (yes, it was a LONG time ago). I worked in the fresh food department, & became a supervisor. To this day, I can't stand cream cakes because I worked around them then for so long & would also get the delight of smelling them when the cream went off. If only I'd worked around chocolate - my hips would be so much smaller now. :rotfl:

Following on from that, it was always made very clear to me that I was to do as well as I could at school, & get a full-time job once I'd finished my education. I was allowed a month off after my exams, but after that I was out looking for work. There's no way my parents would have had me lolling about at home instead of earning. I know someone who left school at 16, & claimed benefits until he was 32 :eek:, having also brought two children into the world (he hasn't lived with their mother in years). He left home at 18, & simply couldn't be bothered to work, & the system didn't do anything to encourage him. The only reason he stopped claiming at 32 was because there was a benefits overhaul in his area - new management started at his job centre, old claims were looked at & he was told that unless he started a course of study, his benefit would be stopped after a certain period of time. He did the course, did a few months' work after it finished, & is now back on benefits "ducking & diving, doing this & that". :cool: Some people don't want to work &, having been on benefits for so long, see no reason to change. I know of people who talk about "getting paid" every two weeks - with that sort of attitude to getting benefits, they'll be on them for a long time to come.

immoral_angeluk

I think it just comes down to priorities. Obviously this guy has none and would quite happily live off the state if it meant him not getting his lazy ar*se out of bed. Whereas most people have other people to think about... my girls are my priority and I don't care if it's mcdonalds or the street corner if I need to put food in their mouths I will.

gems2381

You guys have no idea how hard it was for me not to say all this kind of stuff to him and his mum last night!
But his mum hates me anyway (I've been banned from going to see my boyfriend a few times already!) this is due to me thinking I'm better than everyone else because I "only have a degree in Art and Design". My degree isn't actually in Art and Design it's in Contour Fashion (underwear design lol), :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:.
So you see I have to keep quiet just so I'm allowed in the house!

wherediditallgo

gems2381 wrote: »

wherediditallgo I came home and told my dad about his mums response and he said he'd encourage me as "you'd need money to pay your board!".
I got my first job at 14 (25 now) I worked in a restaurant kitchen sometimes there till 1am and was getting £1.50 an hour but I wanted to make some money so I did it!

My parents were the same. I was allowed to do what I wanted with my first wage payment (we were on weekly pay in those days), but after that I was expected to pay some keep & contribute towards the household bills. I once told my Dad that one of my friends didn't have to pay any keep, & he said "Well, you won't have to pay any either the day you work out how to eat fresh air, & can cope with walking the streets in dirty clothes". My fate was sealed.