McJob
McJob - paid work which does not require special skills and provides little opportunity for development.
The author of that coinage - American writer Douglas Coupland, author of the novel Generation X. In an interview on CNN Copeland said that McJob - as a dead end: not lead anywhere, without pay, without benefits, you know these figures, which makes Playskool, where you can pull out one of them and insert another man instead? This is similar to such work. I mean, when people say - Government says: “O people employed” - you know, I do not know. Is it working in one of these places of employment? Yes, of course. But this is not something that you may get a mortgage on a house.
That word has an interesting story. In 2003, it appeared in the dictionary Merriam-Webster Dictionary, which constantly monitors all new words of modern English.
Guide restaurant chain McDonald’s has come to them and threatened to court, claiming that the article was an affront to 12 million fast-food industry workers. As a result of this pressure, the word McJob has been removed from the Web site Merriam-Webster. Perturbed subscribers edition dictionary explained that the “removal linked to the need to rewrite the article, which did not accurately defines the word”.
March 22, 2007. Manual fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s demanded to delete word McJob from Oxford dictionary - a term explained in the dictionary as “a temporary, poorly paid work without any chance of improvement”
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