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Everybody wants a Mcjob!
Jim Riley
17th June 2009
It seems the McDonalds jobs are getting more attractive as the unemployment rate rises with the company receiving over 2000 applications a day, including from bankers, graduates and teachers. Despite the Oxford dictionary describing a Mcjob as ‘an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects’, people are clambering for the 140 jobs McDonalds currently give out a day. This is a great article to start a lesson on unemployment. Click read more for a BBC video showing hundreds of people queuing for a job at a discount retailer.
Hopefuls queue for store jobs. The BBC is not letting me embed the video for some reason so follow this link for the video