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Etymology
Mc, from the name of the restaurant chain w:McDonald's Corporation|McDonald?�s, + job, jobs in McDonalds? being considered to be this sort of job
Noun
en-noun
- slang A job paying low wages, requiring few skills and having little opportunity for promotion.
#*1987 Mar 9, w:Steve Forbes|Steve Forbes, Major problem with the American economy: hypochondria, in Forbes 139, p33.
#*:Many politicos claim most new jobs are low-pay, dead-enders, �McJobs?.�
#*1989 Oct 19, Paul Grondahl, Managers get behind the grill, in Albany Times Union, pC1
#*:Shortly after the opening of the Latham McDonald?�s, the first in the Capital District, Zdunek, then 16, hopped on his Cushman motor scooter, rode from his Halfmoon home and applied for his first Mcjob. The wage was $1.25 an hour.
#*1991, w:Douglas Coupland|Douglas Coupland, Generation X, p5
#*:The car was the color of butter and bore a bumper sticker saying WE�RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN�S INHERITANCE, a message that I suppose irked Dag, who was bored and cranky after eight hours of working his McJob? (�Low pay, low prestige, low benefits, low future�).
See also
w:McWords|List of words formed from the prefix Mc- derived from McDonald?�s
fr:McJob
ru:McJob
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