Background: In the US we've been experiencing mortgage foreclosures where banks have not been doing their due diligence or even following the law. That is, the foreclosures haven't been legal, and many places now are putting a hold on all foreclosures until this can be figured out.

So...in an article about these foreclosures in the NY Times they said, "At JP Morgan Chase & Company, they were derided as 'Burger King kids' - walk-in hires who were so inexperienced they barely knew what a mortgage was."

Burger King kids? Have you heard of that phrase before?

I've never seen it before, but it's easily understandable.

I've not heard of it, but "burger flipper" is common as a term for minimum wage and/or uneducated worker. I wonder what the management of Burger King thinks of this?

Probably they are about as pleased as McDonald's are about "McJobs". That is, not very.

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Originally posted by arnie:
Probably they are about as pleased as McDonald's are about "McJobs". That is, not very.

A very British use of understatement. Spitting feathers and preparing for litigation is closer, surely?

"McJobs"

Or "McMansions" (link).

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I've never seen it before, but it's easily understandable.

Not sure I agree. "Burger flippers," as Geoff says, yes. But Burger King doesn't really do it for me.

Those McMansions have rather disappeared in this economy, haven't they? At least they have in our area.

Yes, they have, giving way to ever more competition for McJobs.

Those McMansions have rather disappeared in this economy, haven't they?

They were torn down? They're still around abouts here on the Left Coast, but they may not be building new ones.

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No. They're sitting unsold on the market, and new ones aren't being built. We are now seeing smaller and more efficient homes being built in our area. No more palatial bathrooms. It's a good thing.