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McJob noun a temporary job; a job with little or no future prospects US Characterised as the sort of work available at McDonald’s, the multinational fast food brand. A term coined and trademark-registered by McDonald’s itself in 1983 as a positive expression of an affirmative hiring program aimed at those with disabilities; by the late 1980s a derisive term for the low-skill, low-wage jobs that were proliferating in the US during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.- Otherwise the week has been normal, with myseslf and Claire slogging away at our McJobs–me tending bar at Larry’s and maintaining the bungalows (I get reduced rent in return for minor caretaking) and Claire peddling five-thousand-dollar purses to old bags. — Douglas Coupland, Generation X, p. 67, 1991
- A job at McDonald’s would be a McJob. — Jack Chambers (Editor), Slang Bag 93 (University of Toronto), p. 4, Winter 1993
- [T]o capture how the organizational principles of McDonald’s chain of fast-food restaurants, with its emphasis on ruthless efficiency, quantification, predictability, control, and deskilled jobs (often described as “McJobs”) is providing an icon for organization through our society. — Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization, p. 24, 1997
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 86, 1999
- Bunch of kids with crap McJobs getting ready for the big night out. — John Williams, Cardiff Dead, p. 188, 2000
- Beyond her role as a slayer, she is forced to leave college and to get a horrible “McJob” in order to provide for Dawn after their mother Joyce dies. — James B. South, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, p. 152, 2003
- “McJob” has become a common epithet for work without much redeeming value. — Alissa Quart, Branded, p. 15, 2003
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