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Remember McJobs? For the uninitiated, the McJob was a lowly position, often in the service sector, with few opportunities for career advancement. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was almost a ...

LOS ANGELES – McDonald's Corp. (MCD), which has been trying to change the image of its counter jobs as low-paying and dead end, Wednesday unveiled a new television ad featuring Olympian Carl Lewis ...

As McDonald’s seeks to beef up its workforce, it’s also trying to upgrade its image as the poster child for low-wage jobs by redefining the term “McJob." Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

McDonald’s is miffed at the editors of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary for the recent inclusion of the term “McJob” to mean “low-paying and dead-end work.” CEO Jim Cantalupo says the word is ...

It's one thing to have your brand name go generic: Kleenex for tissues, Xerox for copies. It's another when it's generic for something the company finds derogatory. Which explains McDonald's current ...

In today's tough employment market, one company has become the go-to option for the frustrated job seeker: Starbucks. That's a problem for McDonald's as it seeks to beef up its workforce for what's ...

McDonald's can't take some of the "Mc"-ing of America, as they are complaining about a new defintion in Merriam-Webster's: McJob defined as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides ...

A filet o’ language brings us this week’s Marketplace Money buzzword: McJob. McJob is defined by the Oxford English dictionary as “an unstimulating, low-paid job with fee prospects.” That defition got ...