McDonalds are trying to use their corporate clout to have the word McJob removed from the Oxford English Dictionary. McLawyers are arguing in British high court that the term, which refers to an "entry level career opportunity," (the Department of Work and Pensions' phrase not mine) and which most of us take as a colloquialism for a crappy, dead end job, demeans their staff.
How very Mc Caring of them. Unless of course there is a McHidden agenda. After all is is, is it not, the McDonalds McBrand that is being McDissed, not the McWorkers who are merely McVictims of twenty - five years of disastrous education and economic policy under McNeocon governments. These years have resulted in more people being employed in menial tasks in the service sector than work in the once great manufacturing industries of the industrialised west or in agriculture. What a McTriumph for McFriedmanism..
I see a McSymbiosis here though. As successive govrernments on both sides of the McPond have implemented McPolicies that suppress unions, erode workers rights and allow corporate interests to do more or less what the McHell they like, McDonalds have brainwashed the McYoung with their misleading McAdvertising and made them think it is cool to eat brain rotting, gut busting concoctions of McLips, McArseholes, McColouring and McFlavour enhancers until they are too dumb the demand a fair McDeal.
McWorkers of the McWorld unite! You have nothing to lose but your McJobs.
Fancy seeing me in Mc Court Ronald?
Go on, make my McDay.
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Ian Thorpe
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Comments: 13
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I've been trying to get McDonald's, the Scientologists and several Hollywood superstarts to sue me for a few years. They musy know:
a) I haven't a penny to scratch my arse with
b) some of my best friends are lawyers
c) I would just be so droll and nonchalant in court the media would love me.
Oh well, I'll keep trying.
Ten marks,Ian!
Right, and they don't even have the decency to serve a McHaggis burger.