My superiors made me feel like a total piece of SH*T today.

[slag]

I think I'd cry just going to a sh|tty job like McD's supervisor every day.

Cripes, thats the bottom of the barrel. How can your life get any worse?

 

[KarenMarie]

if you can afford to demote yourself to asst. manager, DO IT! Use your spare time to go to school and get the hell out of the rest. management business.

i know of what i speak.

 

[Mrburns2007]

You can't cry at McDonald's it's a happy place

 

[Gaard]

OT - My brother used to work at McDs. Oh, the stories he used to tell. No Mcds for me anymore.

 

[Mrburns2007]

Get a gun and shoot up the place that would show them. JK

 

[SagaLore]

This is why McDonald's is on the verge of collapse. They're closing all over the pace, and their new ad campaign sucks. When they started removing the kids playgrounds and stopped made the kids the target audience, introducing all this "adult" stuff to compete with Burger King and Wendys - they lost.

Burger King is the winner!

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: slag
I think I'd cry just going to a sh|tty job like McD's supervisor every day.

Cripes, thats the bottom of the barrel. How can your life get any worse?

What do you do?

 

[fr]

Get a gun and shoot up the place that would show them.

 

[NesuD]

I know the feeling. I was in sales and grew my territorys business by 70% 3 quarters in a row. My annual review came around and after ripping me because i didn't quite match the top performer in the state (finished 4th out of 45) in total sales they told me i was only going to get a 1% increase in my base salary because i made to much bonus money that year. I got up and asked if that was all and they said they were finished. I then thanked them for the 1% and told them they could start looking for my replacement anytime because i would never again exceed my sales target by more than 1% since apparently that was all it was worth to them and walked out.

 

Sorry to hear this.

If i were in your position (metaphorically speaking) I would use this as a stepping stone and move on with my life in a different direction.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

CTrain its better to cry than go postal. If you have been there awhile, do not blow a refferal. I was a union shop stewart at one time and a small voice activated tape recorder on my person during coflicts kept me honest. I also didn't have to fight to remember what was said later. Pricks don't like accurate quotes of what they have said, myself included...

 

[Broohaha]

Originally posted by: Mrburns2007
You can't cry at McDonald's it's a happy place

lol

 

[miniMUNCH]

I been at the point of tears in situations like that...tears of rage. Anger just builds up to such as pressure that it hurts to hold it in . Used to do control system engineering...now I'm back in school studying for a Ph.D. in ChemE.

I cried once...the next times I just let them have it right back instead of trying to hold it in. I realized I'm was a valuable commodity...I could go get a another job tomorrow and leave them in a world of hurt. After I stopped taking crap...they stopped trying to dish it.

 

[kevinthenerd]

FVCK them, and fvck the people who don't understand your situation. I came quite near crying myself when I busted my ass working and still got yelled at when the work wasn't completed. I give my all, and that's all there is to it. When somebody sees fantastic performance, their first thought shouldn't be that it could be better. Sometimes they're gonna find people who truly care and work their hardest without external motivation from others. It's their dream come true, and they don't know how to handle it.

If you find yourself another job, you'll be teaching them the valuable lesson of employee appreciation. You don't want to make them good, right? Keep your job if you can. Rather, I would suggest open communication about the matter to the other corporate people. Make sure everybody knows what kind of assholes these guys are, but avoid harsh language. State the facts, and let the facts alone do the persuasion.

If what you say is true, they have a lot to learn about management, but unfortunately, no manager is perfect.

 

[alkemyst]

age has nothing to do with it.

crying about the situation was stupid though, coming here and telling us what you should have told them gets you pwn3d in my book.

This is one of the reasons I hate being on a team in business, no one has a backbone, you start getting fired upon and your 5 or 6 other teammates agree with the asshat and you are standing their with your d!ck in your hand and not a pot to p!ss in. That's fine though because if I know my job was done well I will fight it out.

I have yet to be fired for anything I haven't directly caused (one job I got fired at because I just stopped working...I needed the money and figured the best way to get even was get paid for doing nothing but surf the net looking for new jobs, I lasted a month and a half ).

I would have told them 1) what a different store does has no bearing on my store 2) the previous manager was batting less than me this same time last year and I am just getting started. 3) I am making 86% of mystery guests happy, chances are those guests are trying to rattle my cage occassionally, but you know what they leave here happy and chances are they will come back to my store or at least say with McDonalds as a meal vendor.

You have to steer these things when the bastages want to play God Almighty. Don't be afraid to call them out when you see the game. If they don't respect you, they are going to treat you subserviantly...it's one thing to have a boss, it's another thing to have a Yes Sir!, Mr. Boss Man!

Sorry to hear about your bad luck, you got upset because you felt helpless more than likely, but until you learn to take a stand (even if it means losing your job) that's the price.

 

[Danman]

That sucks dude, fvck those a-holes! :|

 

[isaacmacdonald]

try explaining comparative advantage to them. even if it's this mystery manager's special *ooga booga* power that makes his store 3% more profitable, they only have one of him, and objectively speaking you're doing a fvcking good job. period. Trying to squeeze ever last drop of your life into your job just so you'll get an extra pat on the back is insane. Stick up for yourself and retain your sense of pride.

 

[Siddhartha]

Do you think you will get fired?

 

[styrafoam]

McDonalds is a franchise, there are very few corporately managed restaraunts. I know exactly what CTrain is dealing with, I worked at McD's in highschool and a couple years out of it. The owners of the store I worked at were nice enough, but we were always put on uneven scales with some of the other stores they owned.

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: Broohaha

Originally posted by: Mrburns2007
You can't cry at McDonald's it's a happy place

lol

CTrain: "I'm not lovin' it" :music:


no offense buddy, just raggin on ya.

 

[Stark]

I hate McDonalds and everything it stands for, but...

You should be applauded for having a job and having passion about doing good work. Part of corporate life is kissing the right asses to get ahead. If people above you like what you've done for them, you get high marks, if not, they crap all over you. In a way, it might not be so bad that they don't like you.

Sorry to hear about your tough review. Just another reason for me to hate the evil arches.

 

[CTrain]

Wow, thank you for all the sympathy.
I thought I was gonna get ripped for admitting the fact that I cried.
Emotions get the best of you and sometimes you can't control it.

I know now that they were trying to push my buttons and tried to make me better instead of being content.
The problem is they picked on the one area that I thougt I was doing a great job at which bewildered me.

I couldn't give a rat's @ss about them. I could quit and live 1 yr+ without a job.
The problem is my buddy is my direct supervisor(who is also the son's owner) and if I quit that will cause him to find another store manager and thats not easy these days.

And for those who automatically associate McDonalds as a dead end job.......its pays me pretty well and I am the store manager you know.
Its not like I flip burgers for $6/hr. I can come and go as I please but that meeting just really really put me in the gutter.(and pissed)

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: Rage187
ummm, you work at Mcdonalds

what did you expect?

ANY company should treat their employees with respect.

It sounds to me like CTrain is a better manager than his superiors are.

 

[Geekbabe]

You need to raise the scores on your Mystery shops. 86% means your people are missing the mark in key areas of courtesy,speed or suggestive selling.

 

[yellowperil]

Good luck man :beer:

I've got no advice except to lend my moral support over the internet. Don't let them kick you down (edit: OK, that was one bit of advice )