Have you ever worked at McDonald's? Yes or no?Based on what I've seen, they are demanding but the local joints are operated by shaved apes and their standards are at the same time not to high. Having a shift manager bring an employee to tears, telling a customer that her IIRC celiac is all in her hear and spending much of the shift loudly telling other employees about his fucked up life, the way he was able to escalate any issue into full Karen mode. And that is just one person. Then you get another manager who on being told an employee has a doctors note for a physical injury asks if it applies from now or tomorrow.
Maybe it's local thing, I mean our population is stable because every time a child is born the father leaves but still.
Also McDs in fine as a starter job, or a I'm retired and need something to do to get out of the house job, or a I've been a house wife all my life and the kids are gone, and it doesn't seem worth to to get some credentials for a part time gig, and I am sure the HQ jobs are good, but if you are working at a location beyond a certain age without the above qualifiers, you done fucked up, Maybe the lead manager makes something but the rest of the jobs pay shit and it's not a good gig. I know people who have worked there. Nobody in their right mind with ability says they want to work at McDs flinging burgers and then work their way to shift manager... well above the age of 10.
Also if they are being told to work hard for pretty much the least they can pay you, why not work for a more chill place. Same pay, better conditions.
Why using entry job as an insult when people work hard for their money?