Well, my friend, as a former crew worker, asst. mgr and store mgr (made all the ranks and then went on to something higher such as school), I can confirm you that school really is more important. McDonalds can be a lifetime career for those who don't wake up and smell the coffee. Unless you have been to college for at least a few classes, you will never know! The manager who told you this was surely speaking from his heart and not from a business point of view. If everyone followed his advice, who would flip all those burgers? Everybody is important in this world; educated folks and meatheads alike. One needs the other in order to function right as a society. But remember this; How many people have you seen retire as crew or even as management at 65? Sooner or later even meatheads have to wisen up or else there in for a MacHeart-Attack because not many can survive that kind of stress until retirement.Shift Scheduling: It depends on the area of the restaurant. I worked in an area with virtually no jobs and 100% of those hired and scheduled always showed up. Then I worked in a store in a town with lots of jobs for teens and we had to hire 10 people for every 5 that actually showed up. When it comes to people pulling no-shows just because maybe your best work buddy got loaded the night before on Bud and now someone else has to take up the slack, don't blame management for being called at home; blame your drunk ass buddy the next day instead of telling him how pissed you are. He may just be the very reason you were called in, and he knows!
Ever felt like not going in to work and calling in sick? Now management has to go and wake up your buddy!
As you get older, you begin to figure these things out on your own, or you can just keep bouncing around from burger joint to burger joint and it will always be the same. I got up to store management and discovered that life didn't end there, it went beyond. I now have an MBA and when I look back, some of my experiences with McDonalds were helpfull (and some obviously were not like scrubbing Vats etc...).
Today things are different (I am now 34); I would suggest a career in computers! There are some self-taught people out there with no college making some real crazy money making websites and servicing PC's!
Good Luck and remember; McDonalds is only meant to be a temporary job if you are crew!
Devlin.
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