McDonald's Objects To Dictionary's Definition Of 'McJob'

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Objecting to the lexicographers who defined the word "McJob" in the latest Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as a term for a low-paying, dead-end job, the chairman of McDonald's called the definition "completely inappropriate and absolutely demeaning for all the dedicated men and women who have been or currently are employed in a restaurant."

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/031107/1841001076_1.html

These McBastards have the nerve to complain. They're one of the first McCorporations that started low-balling their employees and turning them over.

McFU:


McDonalds
McWalmart
McHome Despot
McLowes
McMenards

And a big FU to all the temp agencies who skim from the already low paychecks of the working poor!

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Pretty much what graduates of the class of 2003 are going to have to settle for.

Man, my mcjob at that fast food joint is taking me nowhere, but I can't find anything better.

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Corporations, especially McCorporations suck, and not in the good way.

I think it's surreal but utterly fair and totally hilarious that Merriam-Webster came up with that term, though you'd think Funk and Waganall would have gotten there first...

McDonalds' own actions are far more demeaning than the dictionary, and hopefully McDonalds' employees know that too. So should the buying public, who readily sway from "We wanna see you smile" to "i'm lovin' it" - McD obviously doesn't give a charade about seeing happy customers anymore (which should be the real mission of EVERY company, period), they just want to cater to anybody so they can make a bigger McBuck.

:grr:

...as it appears in Douglas Coupland's Generation X.

Mcjob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one. pg. 5

The car was the color of butter and bore a bumper sticker saying WE'RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN'S INHERRITANCE, a message I suppose irked Dag, who was bored and cranky after eight hours of working his McJob ("Low pay, low prestige, low benefits, low future"). pg. 5

Does anyone know if Coupland himself came up with the term?

-SM

A junky old chevy chevette,toyota,yugo or whatever you can afford to putt down the road with the muffler dragging. All you can afford to drive on the earnings from the McJob.

I had been calling them "Right to Work" cars,but I think I like this one better.

Never knew who started it

... we wouldn't be hearing all the McWhining...

The term is appropriate.

Ein McVolk, ein McReich, ein McFuhrer





http://www.mcspotlight.org/

How Triple-Burger (c) dare you?

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They are heavily subsidized by US taxpayers, for example to grow potatoes (french, err, "freedom" fries) on marginal farmland on cheap power and almost free water. They have squeezed out family farmers long ago.

A great read about this is "A River Lost" by Blaine Harden.

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I- eh.. McJob's...

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McDonalds actually starts at a much higher pay rate than other fast food places and pays much more than retail to start here. Mickey D's starts at around $7.25-8.50 an hour here (depending on what shift/position you are hired for). Wal-Mart starts at $6.25/hr. Target starts at $6. (I was hired as management at $7.50/hr.)

Taco Bell is the worst. They hire at $5.75-$6.00 an hour and your pay raises? 6 or 7 cents a year. That sounds crazy right? I worked there, have many friends that worked there and it's 100% legit.

So in all actuality Mickey D's is fine. It's running to the border which pays the worst. And of course that's why they run back here. LOL.

Oh and I can't bee too mad at McDonald's right now. Mrs. Kroc just left $200 mil to NPR.

Rp

So now $7.50/hr at a factory flip-burger tyranny is... "fine"?

Ask for nothing now, ask for nothing later.

Everything is just swell.

lowered expectations or that McDonald's is fine for how they lowball their employees but I think we all need to realize that a huge chunk of the American workplace's customer service industry pays this low or lower and McDonald's isn't any worse than a lot of them that get a free pass because they aren't as globally known. Taco Bell is everywhere... what's their excuse?

Frankly if we have to come down on McDonald's there's a whole Bush Ego Sized Can of Worms to open and thousands of companies to come down on that pay worse or have worse benefits than McDonald's... that's All I was saying really.

Rp

There are companies that are worse that Walmart in regard to pay and benefits but as the largest private employer in the world it gets the lion's share of the negative attention.

To a lesser extend McDobald's is the premere McFood place so they get that attention.

There's only so much time in the day, only so many resources, to devote to these Corporate wage depressors so hitting them all equally isn't going to happen.

None of use should be drinking Coke but most of us probably do.

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slow thinking, strangely smirking primate often confused with a chimp or a texan.

:evilgrin:

McDonalds cares so much for the 12 Million they employ that if any of the employees attempt to form a union they shut down the restaurant, fire everyone and build a new one across the street. McBastards, also limit employee's hours so they are not working a full week so they don't get McBenefits. McJob is putting it mildly. Give me a McBreak today! DickMonalds needs to get a clue.

McSob story you've ever heard! Of course, they just don't want to pay them a McLiving wage, so it serves them McRight.

Sorry, my McBad.