[seanmcdirmid]

> If you work at McDonalds, in is 100% in your interest to do the absolute bare minimum possible to not be fired, and in your employers interest to pay you as little as legally possible.

Having worked that gig before, that isn’t how it works. You don’t want to work hardish, you simply don’t get hours. If management doesn’t want to give you more than minimum raises, you leave for something else, and turn over is high. There is still leverage to do good things (both on worker and management side).

A lot of people working there (mainly managers, but some crew) wanted to be owners, McDonald’s had a franchise system in place to do that but you had a better chance of getting one if you actually learned the ropes at another store for awhile.