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#201: McJob

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Also one of the words like Shuhari which I just heard about recently:

McJob is slang for a low-paying, low-prestige dead-end job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intracompany advancement. The term McJob comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald’s, but is used to describe any low-status job – regardless of the employer – where little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers’ activities are tightly regulated by managers. - Wikipedia McJob

or one of the definitions from Urban Dictionary:

Any menial, low-paying, unskilled, dead-end job, including (but not limited to) those in the fast food industry, which requires zero creative or intellectual involvement, and whose sole motivation is a paycheck (i.e., no one works a McJob because they like it or care about the work). The employee may also be required to wear a silly and degrading uniform. Examples outside of the food service industry include Wal-Mart greeter and movie ticket clerk. McJobs are usually filled by teenagers, bored retired people looking for something to do, retards, and struggling single parents in need of a second income. Turnover is high, but because practically anyone has the skills necessary to perform a McJob, the company can just hire more interchangeable McEmployees off the streets… - Urban Dictionary