The Inside Story of The Saudi Golden Arches

Working in McDonald's as a summer job was a worthwhile experience during the breath-taking 9 hours a day shift, especially going through all this and that, from dealing with the uneducated and talentless people your working with to cleaning after customers and dealing with the some of their rudeness.

This topic will include the following Subcategories: The Co-Worker Effect, The Customer Effect, The Hygiene Effect and The Health Effect.

The Co-Worker Effect: All the Saudi workers here are worth my bottom, they are mostly 23-29 years of age and all of them live in a cheap Bedouin area such as Kilo 2, and Al-Hendaweya , and are typically the most frightening places to walk in Jeddah, you are lucky enough if you found one or two of them having a high school degree because most are STILL studying in public schools and failing year after year. I always keep my distance away from them and don't get involved in initiating any sort of small talking and only seek help when it comes to doing my job, though I do confess that I got harassed more than once. That's my conclusion about Saudi crew, What About Filipinos?

Well, These are the people who are willing to teach you anything you need to know, though there are exceptions. I did remain on these people's side more often than the Saudi side, they are also more charismatic as well, you look at them and you see the well for working 9 hours a day unlike working just for money.

I remember an Indian guy called Nadeem who is the laziest worker I noticed in my shift. He oversleeps in breaks and fails to comply to his co-workers' advices (his Saudi co-workers'..well I don't blame him for not complying). He once came up to me and asked my if I could lend him 200 SR, I was like "OK buddy, we will see at the end of the month". Believe me or not, one week later, I never saw him again, which I was glad for not trusting him from the very beginning (typical Indians), I heard he got kidney stones, anyway that is it for The Co-worker Effect, not so good and not comfy as well.

The Customer Effect: From what I think, only people with few money or few time left on there schedule go to McDonald's, because it is the cheapest among other fast food chains and the most easiest to eat. Most people who come to McDonald's are employees from neighboring company's such as Safola and P&G in Al-Hamra district, and the busiest timing is between 1PM-4PM excluding Thursdays and Fridays, so in my point of view, it gets ridiculously busy at this time limit that I end up serving 4 customers at once, which I hopefully don't end up mixing between orders.

Anyway, there are some knuckle-heads out there who enter and ask for Grilled Fish & Rice (WHAT THE HELL!) and Kabsah! I was once in the same situation when some Saudi guy with sport pants and slippers came up to me and asked me the same thing, I tried my best not to explode from laughing at him but ended up giving him a smirk, he smiled and simply ordered a Big Mac. Bottom line, I never got insulted or shouted at from a customer (good employee I was :-) ).

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The Hygiene Effect: McDonald's is by far the filthiest Fast Food restaurant among its competitors, I am just amazed why didn't it close down from its filthiness. First of all, disgusting Saudis working there chop off the fingertips of the plastic gloves they wear, so they end up dressing the burger with their fingertips (FU**!), the kitchen's floor is all oily that I slipped off at times. The trays you eat on are NOT washed by soap and water, instead the are just rinsed in cool water without any soap or any detergent from any kind, so someone who is Germophobic will surely commit suicide if he reads this. I also heard that the Mecca-Highway branch is the most contaminated of all branches that the crew don't even put on there gloves while dressing and that the kitchen has litters of lettuce and tomato all over the floor.

The customer side is no good either, a mom with her children is the worst thing you can come across, they through shit all over the place, fries all over, ketchup on the table itself and the wise dad's cigarette ashes all over the floor, it's by far the most tiring activity to do after a customer leaves, they don't even consider to empty the tray in the bin!, which leaves the place to become an insect-infested hive. Killed 17 flies in just 10 minutes compiling them together

The Health Effect: Some meals are OK, and some aren't, and by that I mean getting all sort of acne, and tongue spots or whatever you call them, it also feels that the frozen meat and chicken that they fry and grill is genetically treated in some way, you won't get the same effect if you try Burger King or Hardee's, it just doesn't feel the same and that is why Americans had the courage to sew the bastards (and they have a healthier McDonald's!) while we are left licking our wounds.

One of the dishes I really detest is Spicy McChicken or McChiken in general, you eat this and your tongue start growing fungus in just 3 hours that is if not around your lips also. Seriously, this is garbage!

That sums everything up at the end of this post that McDonald's is the worst ranked fast food restaurants in my opinion and that I don't eat there except on emergencies. (contact me should you require additional details).