Random Behind Scenes Stories From McDonald's Workers Prove These People Have Seen It All (11 items)

• (#2) Deep-Fried McForearm

  From [deleted]:

  "What is the worst employee injury that you have personally witnessed or experienced while working at McD's?

  I worked at an Oklahoma McDonald's for 3 years in HS/undergrad, and I witnessed a guy reach into a deep fryer, bare handed, up to his elbow, to retrieve a wayward McNugget. It was the worst scream I've ever heard, and when he yanked his arm out of the fryer, an arc of hot grease shot across the make-line and hit some girl in the face.

  It was actually pretty traumatizing."
• (#1) Heartless Heathens In Training

  From roaddog1:

  "I worked at McDonald's as well and learned first hand how that place slowly sucks your soul away...

  For example. One day I was working and as I was about to take the order of the next person in line, he just f****** fell over and started having a heart attack. Everyone froze and I ran to the back of the store and told the manager to call an ambulance, which she promptly did. But the sick part is, while this man was lying on the floor turning blue and dying three feet away from me, my other managers told me I was required to keep working. SO here I am just making a f****** millkshake with some guy dying right in front of my face so that the [people] waiting in line at the drive through can get on with their day. It was entirely [effed] up.

  meanwhile, the customers seated at the tables continued to eat and converse despite the turmoil surrounding them. Some were even pointing at the guy suffering from the heart attack and laughing to their friends.

  McDonald's taught me how callous the world is."
• (#11) The Employee's Have Some Fun, Secret Slang

  From [deleted]:

  "I used to work at McDonalds about 30 years ago. When a customer ordered a Big Mac with no special sauce, our shorthand term for that was a "Big Mac, no ejac".

  Another thing we'd do is: if a hot girl or guy (or even a horrible looking person) was ordering at till 3, someone might yell "Cheese on 3" to get everyone's attention. Cheese on X was something the crew chief would normally say to get cheese on 3 of the 6 hamburgers or 1/4 pounders [sic], for example. I don't know if that's still the process."
• (#4) You Don't Want To Know What's Behind The Grill

  From lordsidious: 

  "Every few months, the restaurant undergoes an inspection from a McOpCo consultant. This is called an FOR. Before the FOR, the owner gets everyone to clean, paint,, brush up on their skills/habits, etc. On one of these occasions, I was tasked with cleaning behind the vats and the grills. The accumulation of grease, dropped, rotting meat and chicken products that were festering underneath was enough to give me nightmares.

  The grease was pooled on the floor and there were grease stalagmites on the ground. Trapped in the burnt and encrusted filth were hundreds of flies."
• (#6) Short And Sweet... And Disgusting

  From PatchworkBoy87:

  "Former McDonalds crew member. I once had to handscoop the vomit of a five year old out of a urinal."
• (#8) Human French Fries

  From Molech:

  "I knew a guy who worked at the local McD's and [he] told me a story about a kid who had been bet that he couldn't hold his arm in the fryer while wearing a giant oven mitt for 10 seconds. Needless to say he made it about 3 seconds before the oil soaked through and burned the sh*t out of his arm."

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