Lord Of The Fries
McDonald's has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a ``McJob'' changed. The Oxford English Dictionary describes a McJob as ``an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects''. But McDonald's says this definition is now ``out of date and insulting'' and says 90 per cent of employees agree they are given valuable training.
FOOTNOTE: Are they `arch' enemies?
12 comments:
I can understand their consternation, but why bother arguing...the only people who would disagree with that definition are corporate McDonalds people.
Seriously, how many times do you see a little boy or girl say "when I grow up I want to be a fry cook at McDonalds!"?
I'm actually really disappointed that the word McJob has even made it into the dictionary!
You're so right, Bart,
I reckon Macca's have done themselves an even greater dis-service by fanning the flames of debate here.
The OED folks are not going to pulp their edition. Nor should they.
Macca's should have just left the issue alone.
Coupla years ago, R Kelly (of `I Believe I Can Fly' fame) had just finished a concert and went into a McDonald's and opted to doing some frying and served drive-thru customers - so I wrote the headline `I believe I can fry'.
Thought you'd enjoy that
Cheers
David
Methinks they doth protest too much.
(an as fer the 90%, as they don't allow Unions, how wud they know if their staff are really unhappy?)
:@o
Hi Steph,
I didn't know it was in the OED until I heard it on the news this morning.
I always thought it was a joke word.
Sometimes the corporate world should realise when to lie low and not escalate matters!
Cheers
David
Hi BTBear,
Perfect viewpoint. You are hereby appointed captain of the Aussiejourno Blog Stars Debating team.
And I wonder how accurate the info on those employee forms would be, given the way the question is weighted.
Food (ha ha) for thought.
Cheers
David
valuable training? in what? flipping the absolutely impossibly perfect round shaped patty of strange meat? pouring water over freeze dried pickles? never ever stacking anything neatly? ensuring the secret sauce is everywhere but where it should be? not hearing i wanted 2 girl happy meals and 1 boy happy meal, which resulted in three girl happy meals and a very mad eight year old boy? okay i;ll stop. i could go on. lets do hell-mart(aka wal-mart)shhhh. gerald is calming down.
Six lines sandwiched between three great puns. 'Tis amazing how you cook up all this, David! Of course it may be a concern how M's chains don't spread enough dough around, and instead serve up all this PR. :-)
Hi Animals with opinions,
I hear you loud and clear. The interesting thing is that the front-line `soldiers' at Macca's are teen school or college-age kids - who face the brunt of all the problems.
Like you, I've had botched orders, but the trick is to just move on.
At least Gerald wouldn't have a drama with his orders - he wouldn't even have to crane his neck to check!
Always good to hear from you.
David
Hi Sandip,
Hey - there's a lot of puns in that comment of yours, you punmaster!
Take care
David
i wonder how ths top notch companies always manage to find such minute concerns here and thr....n then stage a protest!!!
i mean debating on every damn thing has become more of a corporate jargon-ish statement than anything else.....
Hi Priyanka,
You're 100 per cent correct. Someone's done the corporate advancement gig by taking up the cudgels with the OED - completely forgetting that no one in the world considered it an issue anyway.
Now it's been blown completely out of proportion.
This was a non-issue until today!
Cheers.
David
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