Don’t work for Mcmenamins

I worked for them. If you love: Arbitrary rules and double standards! Shifts that might last less than 2 hours, but could last up to 13 hours! Random last minute schedule changes that often occur unbeknownst to you! Closing until 3 or 4 and opening the next morning! Tipping out managers, asst. managers, and kitchen staff! SHARING tips with people who don’t feel compelled to work because you’re busy doing all the work for them! Sexual harrassment! Discrimination! Working side by side with noticeably intoxicated and/or compromised managers and staff! - You’ll love working for McMenamins! They’ve tried to change, but they’ve actually gotten worse over the years…recently reknowned for mass-firings of some of their oldest and best (just because you work for jackasses doesn’t make you one. We all need to pay our bills…) employees. Word has it they wanted to unload their highest paid, fully insured non-management types. They already had a lousy reputation for service (management’s fault: 17% labor means servers can have up to 20 tables in a section with rapid-fire turnovers - they’re literally getting pummeled. I actually had the entire pub to myself more than once…) and honestly - I know a few of the folks they fired, and…they were some of the best people they had.

As someone who just quick Mcmenamins after 3 years, I couldn’t agree more with EVERY complaint about the company. I have even experienced chronic rudeness from H.R….. the people who are supposed to help the employees!
I have been written up for customer complaints that were out of my ability to fix, I have worked side by side with people working at a 1/4 of the speed as me, but got substantially less pay, I have had shifts where I had to wait on a table AND go back and cook their food. My manager would call people in early so he could get off and start drinking. There are no consequences to shitty work, no appreciation or recognition for outstanding work, and a general lack of care for all non-upper management employees.
Hi, I’m your server/busser/bartender/movie attendant/ food runner/ salad maker/ host all in one and I have 10 other tables plus a movie theatre to deal with! oh and the tables are in 3 different sections too because they refuse to let us close sections EVER!
It is true that Portland restaurants try to avoid hiring ex Mcmenamins employees… would you want to hire someone from a company known for 1 hour food times? Measured shots? Mandatory “cut-proof” gloves instead of knife training and sharp knives? Bad ventilation. Random company wide rules that make no sense for most locations? Constantly grumpy employees? A thread of racism and sexism that goes through the whole company but is never spoken of? Plus the food, beer, drinks, et al are mediocre at best.
I won’t even start with the torturous Muzak, same songs playing for years, sometimes 3 times in a shift!

fuck the mcmenamins brothers!

I know for a fact that one of Mcmenamins current employees, Jaime Blunden has a history of theft and domestic assault/battery. http://www.pcsoweb.com/InmateBooking/SubjectResults.aspx?id=1239003 -Wow so much for background checks! Sounds like they don’t care too much who they hire.

C’mon guys, let’s not forget about the pay freeze or the 0.75% (0.25% match up to 3% gross)401k match.

Let’s see $9 an hour x 40 hours per week x 50 weeks a year X .03% X .25% = $135 matched per year (30 years = $4050 matched)

But what about the tips you say? Let’s be generous and say you claim $50 per night ($15.25 per hr total).
Using the previous equation = $228.75 matched per year (30 years = 6862.50 matched)

Can you feel the love?

Thanks for the 30 years loyal employee, here’s $7000, spend it wisely. Happy retirement!

What else? No employee pricing on food, beverages, entertainment, or lodging. That’s what.

Did you read the the other posts? They’re true.
Are you a customer? Open your eyes and put down the previously frozen burger.

The only thing good these guys do is face-lift old buildings (many which are just as energy wasting as 100 years ago, probably more-so since the brothers are obsessed with superfluous lighting)and line their family’s pockets.

Peace and love. Yeah, right.

Ooops.

For the record, I have never heard of Jaime Blunden.

I wouldn’t marry her and I’d rather she steal from McMenamins than from my house!

I think she deserves another chance.

FREE JAIME BLUNDEN!

No worries, Jaime Blunden remains free. The frumpy, 4′11″ Colombian is hard to miss. And in case you change your mind about marriage to her, just be ready to deal with her alcoholism, her violent tendencies, her untreated sex addiction, and… get an STD. And if you get along with sociopathic liars, then you and Jaime Blunden will flourish. She is quite a prize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPP4cbn92k

Oh wait, I’m so sorry, Jaime Blunden is taken! She is going to marry the 5′2″ Portland area Mor Furniture store manager, Shea Conley! A lucky, lucky man… (or desperate, yikes!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM2j2QM9j50

I was not aware that bars/restaurants could employ whiny children. You all need to grow the hell up and enter into the real world. You are all a bunch of drama queens that don’t realize that this kind of s**t happens everywhere. this is the world of adults. If you felt like you were discriminated against or the subject of racial bias do something about it. Don’t bitch on a website. Pussies. And Chubbs-Mr. Stalker, get a life.

Besides “YouSuck”’s naive commentary, I can empathize with all the aforementioned stories of this sad company, having been an employee for some 2+ years. I quit in a tornado of such unprecedented BS that it’s hard to quantify all the particulars here on this vent-page, but let’s just say that when I started with the Company it was all slightly hippie and feel-good, but then morphed overnight into a back-stabbing take-all corporate monolith of such ghastly proportions that it made Enron look good by comparison. At least Enron was up-front about it’s corporate leanings, instead of trying to ride on the coattails of some liberal trappings and down-home decorating scheme. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s good for tourists only.
As a former kitchen worker, it was pretty brutal. I worked in one of the busier(and, by all accounts, one of a few actually profitable) cells and man, was it BUSY! I worked my ass off…Gladly, too, until “Corporate” decided that our particular department was a little too independent for their accounting books and so we were incorporated into the rest of the “property”. Long story short, I saw: 1) My tips drop off by 50%, 2) Someone from an entirely different department and no relevant experience get installed as the manager of our humming kitchen, and, worst of all, 3) NO SUPPORT from immediate upper-level management. Needless to say, I quit.
It was, actually, the best thing I could’ve done. Companies, like people, show their colors when the time is right, and this sad, sad company showed theirs-which is basically GREEN, as in money. That’s all they care about. It just sucks that they paint it over with all this hippie-dippy shit. It fucking sucks. Anyway, good luck!

Chubbs is my alias, aka jeea1970. Don’t hate because I sit on my computer all day and post photos and hate mail. I have an illness called bipolarism and I am not taking my medication. I really need to stop this behavior!