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Mc·Job  (mk-jb)
n. Slang
A job, usually in the retail or service sector, that is low paying, often temporary, and offers minimal or no benefits or opportunity for promotion.

[Mc(Donald's), trademark of a fast-food restaurant chain (from its mass-produced nature) + job.]

McJob [məkˈdʒɒb]
n
Informal a job that is poorly paid and menial
[a humorous corruption of McDonald's, a major American fast-food enterprise]


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To this day, the corporate culture inspired by Harry and Esther and carved in stone by Rich stands in stark contrast to rivals' systems of low-paid burger flippers and cashiers who don their disposable hats for what society has deemed McJobs.
Unfortunately many of us have a hostile attitude toward the service economy: it's flipping burgers; it's McJobs.
In the 1980s, many men who had earned good pay as miners or in manufacturing jobs discovered that if they did find alternative employment, it did not pay as well – the old industrial trades were replaced by McJobs, estate agency and the like will find it very difficult to replicate their old salary and bonus packages either in the same field or any other.
 
 
 
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